Bell Hook's Motherhood In Bells Hooks

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The writer Bells Hooks remembers her mother as a young fifties women who loved learning from the commercials and magazines about motherhood. She had learned about not letting the children know about grown-up problems so, she would discuss the problems with her husband in their room than in front of their children. She had married the writer’s father after a divorce with two children. She loved fun and freedom just like her husband. She was really happy when she had finally left her mother’s house which was full of old traditions and morals. Her father had been a bachelor for a long time and loved to roam and be free. He then married Hook’s mother who was ten years younger than him after she was probably pregnant. Hooks writes her grandmother

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