In thirteen concise chapters, hooks examines her own search for emotional connection and society's failure to provide a model for learning to love. As bell hooks uses her incisive mind and razor-sharp pen to explore the question 'What is love?' her answers strike at both the mind and heart. In its place she offers a proactive new ethic for a people and a society bereft with lovelessness.

Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, the renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist skewers our view of love as romance. we would all love better if we used it as a verb,' writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. THE ACCLAIMED FIRST VOLUME IN HER 'LOVE SONG TO THE NATION' 'The word 'love' is most often defined as a noun, yet. Truly a healing read.Feminism | Popular Psychology | Couples | Philosophy Love is about communion, care, attention, and choice rather than something perfect that may fall upon you. Love is also remarkably different from abuse and the two can’t exist at the same time. Also, love isn’t about an absence of pain or grief, but something that lives alongside it and makes being alive more bearable. Love is universal, tangible, and transformative.

bell hooks talks about love in a way that’s so healing. Some friends recommended this book to me because I was going through something traumatic, and I think they were really right. Here’s what do others say about this book: The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the “100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life.” All About Love is a powerful, timely affirmation of just how profoundly her revelations can change hearts and minds for the better. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive and healing for individuals and for a nation. A new path to loveĪs bell hooks uses her incisive mind to explore the question “What is love?” her answers strike at both the mind and heart. If you’re looking for a new way to think about love, this book is definitely worth a read. But it also provides food for thought about the nature of love itself. The book is full of useful advice about how to achieve successful relationships, both romantic and otherwise. It’s the kind of love that can exist between family members, friends, and even strangers. Hooks then goes on to offer her own vision of love, which is based on the idea of “lovingkindness.” This is a form of love that is not based on passion or possession, but rather on connection, caring and mutual respect.

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