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Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery
by bell hooks

AVAILABILITY: Active Record (Readily Available)

Publication Date: January 2005
Publisher: South End Press
Binding: Trade Paper
Topics: OPPRESSION (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF-ACTUALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); AFRICAN AMERICANS_MENTAL HEALTH; AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN; SELF-ESTEEM IN WOMEN

Description:

When Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recoverywas 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 life 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 Yampaved the way for her more recent and popular writing on love, relationships and community. This South End Press Classics Edition will include a new introduction.

Praise for Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery:

"By confronting topics avoided in polite company-including progressive black folks-hooks helps us tackle our deepest fears, those we harbor about our self-worth as African Americans, and get on with the business of becoming."-Village Voice Literary Supplement

"hooks continues to produce some of the most challenging, insightful, and provocative writing on race and gender in the United States today."-Library Journal

"[bell hooks] draws more effectively on her own experiences and sense of identity than . . . most other writers."-Publishers Weekly

About the Author

One of the leading public intellectuals of her generation, bell hooks has authored over 20 books, including several classics in African-American and Women's Studies. Known mainly as a feminist thinker, hooks addresses a broad range of issues related to gender, race, teaching, and media.

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