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Sisters of the Yam
Black Women and Self-Recovery
bell hooks
Pages: 220Edition: Classics Series, Volume 9
ISBN: 0-89608-733-6
Format: paper
Release Date: 2005-01-15
This book is also available in cloth
When Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery 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.
In Sisters of the Yam, hooks examines how the emotional health of black women is wounded by daily assaults of racism and sexism. Exploring such central issues as work, beauty, trauma, addiction, eroticism, and estrangement from nature, hooks shares numerous strategies for self-recovery and healing. She also shows how black women can empower themselves and effectively struggle against racism, sexism, and consumer capitalism.
As hooks' first book on psychological concerns, Sisters of the Yam paved the way for her more recent and popular writing on love, relationships, and community. This South End Press Classics edition includes a new introduction and several expanded chapters.
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Table of Contents
Interview with bell hooks (June 2004)Preface Reflections of Light
Introduction Healing Darkness
1 Seeking After Truth
2 Tongues of Fire
3 Work Makes Life Sweet
4 Knowing Peace
5 Growing Away from Addiction
6 Dreaming Ourselves Dark and Deep
7 Facing and Feeling Loss
8 Moved by Passion
9 Living to Love
10 Sweet Communion
11 The Joy of Reconciliation
12 Touching the Earth
13 Walking in the Spirit
bell hooks
Click here to view bell hooks's full Author Pagebell hooks is the author of numerous critically acclaimed and influential books on the politics of race, gender, class, and culture. Celebrated as one of our nation’s leading public intellectuals by The Atlantic Monthly, as well as one of Utne Reader’s “100 Visionaries Who Could Change Your Life,” she is a charismatic speaker who divides her time among teaching, writing, and lecturing around the world.
Her first book, Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (South End Press, 1981), which she began when she was 19, was named one of the “twenty most influential women’s books of the last twenty years” by Publishers Weekly in 1992. A prolific writer, hooks has published many other books with South End Press, including Feminist Theory, Black Looks, Yearning, Talking Back, and Breaking Bread (with Cornel West).
A frequent lecturer in the United States and abroad, her most recent books from South End Press include Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics and Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery (Updated Edition), and Homegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism with Amalia Mesa-Bains.
A list of bell hooks’s favorite films can be found here.
For a recent talk by bell hooks, visit Eric Stoller's blog, here.