<P>According to the <EM>Washington Post</EM>, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore bell hooks'' electrifying feminist explorations. Targeting cultural icons as diverse as Madonna and Spike Lee, <EM>Outlaw Culture</EM> presents a collection of essays that pulls no punches. As hooks herself notes, interrogations of popular culture can be a ¿powerful site for intervention, challenge and change¿. And intervene, challenge and change is what hooks does best.</P>