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WHEN SISTERS OF
THE YAM was originally released in 1994 it won
critical praise and solidified bell hooks'
reputation as one of the leading public
intellectuals of her generation. Today, the book is
considered a classic in African American and
feminist circles. It provides a launching point for
much of hooks' later work.
Tackling such issues
as addiction, truth-telling, work, grieving,
spirituality, and eroticism, hooks shares numerous
strategies for self-recovery that can heal
individuals and inspire struggle against racism,
sexism, and consumer capitalism.
This new, expanded
edition features a wide-ranging interview where
hooks speaks to how her work continues and how it
has changed. Sisters of the Yam stands apart
as a self-help book, she says, because it links
self-recovery with political resistance.
In these times of
anti-feminist backlash, and with growing rates of
depression and HIV/AIDS among black women, this
important book offers multiple paths of healing and
diverse ways of thinking spiritually.
Hooks continues to produce some of the most
challenging, insightful, and provocative writing on
race and gender in the United States
today.
Library
Journal
bell hooks
is the author of many books on feminism, black
women's experience, relationships, and political
change. She lives in New York City and has taught
at Yale and Oberlin College.
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