This is one of the first major works by writer and activist bell hooks. Originally published in 1981, it has gained recognition as an influential work in feminist thought. This classic essay is now being translated into Spanish for the first time. In it, she examines the oppression that Black women have suffered and continue to suffer from the 17th century to the present day.

In *Ain't I a Woman?*, hooks explores several recurring themes in her later work: the historical impact of sexism and racism on Black women, the roles of the media and the education system in the representation of Black women, the idea of ​​a white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, and the disregard for issues of race and class within feminism. Hooks insists that the struggles to end racism and sexism are intertwined and focuses her writing on the intersectionality of race, capitalism, and gender.

Since the publication of this book, hooks has become an eminent political thinker and cultural critic who begins her reflection from her signature: bell hooks is a combination of her mother's and grandmother's first and last names written in lowercase, according to her, because ideas should be capitalized, thus criticizing the capitalist custom of overvaluing proper names.