She is currently a professor emerita of women's studies and human development and family science at the University of Georgia.
Patricia Bell-Scott is an author and professor emerita of women's studies and human development and family science at the University of Georgia.
[5][6] Bell-Scott's previous books include Life Notes: Personal Writings by Contemporary Black Women (1994), which was a featured selection of the Quality Paperback Book Club; Flat-footed Truths: Telling Black Women's Lives (1998); Double Stitch: Black Women Write about Mothers and Daughters (1991), which won the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize, and All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave (co-edited with Gloria Hull and Barbara Smith, 1982), an award-winning textbook that was named to the Black Issues Books Review list of "Books that Made the Century Great."
Bell-Scott served for a decade as co-founding editor of SAGE: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women.
She is also a co-founder of the National Women's Studies Association, for which she served as co-convener of the inaugural coordinating council.