paragraph_text: Gloria Jean Watkins (Hopkinsville, 25. rujna 1952. – Berea, 15. prosinca 2021.), poznatija pod pseudonimom bell hooks, američka je autorica, profesorica, feministkinja i društvena aktivistkinja. Ime "bell hooks" posuđeno je od prabake po majci, Bell Blair Hooks.<ref>hooks, bell, "Inspired Eccentricity: Sarah and Gus Oldham" in Sharon Sloan Fiffer and Steve Fiffer (eds), Family: American Writers Remember Their Own, New York: Vintage Books, 1996, p.&nbsp;152.