bell hooks to Speak On
Feminist Education: Changing All Our Lives

Cultural critic, author, and feminist theorist bell hooks will deliver the inaugural address for a lecture series to honor the late Sue Mansfield, Claremont McKenna College Professor of History Emerita. The lecture will be held at the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum on Tuesday, March 25 at 6:45 p.m. The lecture is free and open to the public and seating is on a first-come basis.
A prolific writer, bell hooks is the author of more than twenty books including Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism; Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life with Cornell West; and Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem. She has served as a professor of English at Yale University and Oberlin College, and most recently as a Distinguished Professor of English at City College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Although known as a feminist thinker, bell hooks' research and writings cover a wide range of topics including gender, race, teaching, and the significance of media for contemporary culture.
Born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, hooks received her bachelor's degree from Stanford University in 1973, master's degree from the University of Wisconsin, and doctorate from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Celebrated as one of the nation's leading public intellectuals by The Atlantic Monthly, and named by Utne Reader as one of the "100 Visionaries Who Could Change Your Life," hooks will speak on Feminist Education: Changing All Our Lives, discussing the necessity of a feminist education for both women and men. Her visit to Claremont McKenna is sponsored by the Dean of Faculty, the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies, the department of history, and the Athenaeum.