![]() ![]() She also shows how black women can empower themselves and effectively struggle against racism, sexism and consumer capitalism. Exploring such central life issues as work, beauty, trauma, addiction, eroticism and estrangement from nature, hooks shares numerous strategies for self-recovery and healing. In Sisters of the Yam, hooks examines how the emotional health of black women is wounded by daily assaults of racism and sexism. Today, the book is considered a classic in African American and feminist circles. ![]() When Sisters of the Black Women and Self-Recovery was originally released in 1994, it won critical praise and solidified bell hooks’ reputation as one of the leading public intellectuals of her generation. ![]()
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