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The 23 pages that link to bell hooks, each with the reason it gives.

• Second-wave feminismRelated: Her critiques showed how mainstream feminist politics could exclude women of color and working-class women.

• Feminist literary criticismRelated: Her criticism challenges feminist accounts that center white women and overlook intersecting power relations.

• PatriarchyRelated: Her work insists that analysis of patriarchy must account for its intersections with racism and class.

• Black feminismBroader topic: Her books connected feminist critique to everyday life, education, love, and popular culture.

• Gender equalityBroader topic: Her writing foregrounded inequalities obscured by treating women as a single group.

• Feminist theoryRelated: Her accessible critiques connected feminist politics to race, class, love, and everyday culture.

• Male gazeRelated: Her critique showed how Mulvey's account could overlook Black women's distinct viewing positions.

• Critical pedagogyRelated: Her engaged pedagogy brought feminist and anti-racist analysis into critical education.

• Film studiesRelated: Her concept of the oppositional gaze broadened debates about spectatorship and power.

• MisogynyRelated: Her intersectional analysis challenges accounts of misogyny that treat women as a single group.

• Women's rights movementRelated: Her work challenged movements that treated women's experiences as uniform.

• Standpoint theoryRelated: Her writing connects lived experience and oppositional consciousness to feminist knowledge.

• DomesticityRelated: Her analysis challenged accounts of domestic life that treated white middle-class experience as universal.

• Gender studiesRelated: Her accessible critiques connected gender analysis with race, class, and popular culture.

• Black feminist thoughtBroader topic: Her books connected Black feminist analysis to popular culture, pedagogy, and everyday life.

• Feminist media studiesRelated: Her oppositional gaze challenged accounts of spectatorship that treated women as a unified audience.

• Cultural criticismRelated: Her criticism shows how popular media can reproduce or contest intersecting forms of domination.

• Third-wave feminismRelated: Her earlier critiques of exclusion influenced the movement’s insistence on inclusive feminist politics.

• Patricia Hill CollinsRelated: Hooks and Collins both analyze how intersecting power relations shape culture and feminist politics.

• History of feminismRelated: Her critiques pressed feminist movements to account for differences among women.

• Paris Is BurningRelated: Her criticism questioned how the film framed Black subjects for predominantly white audiences.

• Rebecca WalkerRelated: Hooks and Walker both helped broaden feminist debate around race and generational difference.

• Roxane GayRelated: Hooks offers a major precedent for linking feminist analysis with accessible cultural criticism.