Bone Black Memories of Girlhood

Name: Bone Black Memories of Girlhood
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ISBN: 9780805055122

ISBN-10: 0805055126

ISBN-13: 9780805055122

Edition: Revised

Authors: bell hooks

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Stitching together girlhood memories with the finest threads of innocence, feminist intellectual bell hooks presents a powerfully intimate account of growing up in the South. A memoir of ideas and perceptions, Bone Black shows the unfolding of female creativity and one strong-spirited child’s journey toward becoming a writer. She learns early on the roles women and men play in society, as well as the emotional vulnerability of children. She sheds new light on a society that beholds the joys of marriage for men and condemns anything more than silence for women. In this world, too, black is a woman’s color—worn when earned—daughters and daddies are strangers under the same roof, and crying…

Book details

List price: $18.99
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 10/15/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 4.98" wide x 7.94" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English