This book thematically examines hooks’ works across various disciplinary divides, including her critique on educational theory and practice, theorization of racial construction, dynamics of gender, and spirituality and love as correctives in postmodern life.
This fourth edition incorporates contributions to studies on privilege. The essays examine the multifaceted nature of social location and describe how gender, class, race, sexual orientation, (dis)ability, and religion interact in creating layers of privilege and oppression.