Bell Hooks

In Hook's book 'Reel to Real' she discusses how the media has effects over the audience even though we are aware that what's on screen isn't real life. She focuses on how it effects black female spectators and begins to speak from experience. She believes that to engage in film was to engage in the negation of black female representation in the 
media. She states 

"Representation is the 'hot' issue right now because it's a major realm of power for any system of domination"

Gloria Jean Watkins, or better known as Bell Hooks is a African American feminist born on the 25th September 1952. She is influenced by figures such as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King and Toni Morrison. Noting a lack of diverse voices in popular feminist theory, bell hooks published the book Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center in 1984.


"Women in lower class and poor groups, particularly those who are non-white, would not have defined women's liberation as women gained social equality with men since they are continually reminded in their everyday lives that all women do not share a common social status."

She believes that feminism is a struggle to end patriarchal oppression and the ideology of domination. She has a very strong belief that feminism is a political commitment rather than a lifestyle choice. She further believes that feminism is a struggle to end patriarchal oppression and the ideology of domination.