All About Love
In 'All About Love,' bell hooks explores the profound and often misunderstood nature of love, urging readers to transcend societal misconceptions. She dismantles the myths surrounding love, advocating for a more radical and genuine understanding of connection and community. Through personal anecdotes, philosophical insights, and cultural critiques, hooks invites us to confront our own relationships and embrace love as an act of courage and healing. This compelling narrative challenges the reader to redefine love beyond romance and recognize its essential role in a fulfilling life. Are you ready to rediscover love in its most transformative form?
By bell hooks
Published: 2001
"Love is an action, a participatory process that requires effort and commitment."
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"The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet...we would all love to better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provacative and intensely personel, the renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist skewers our view of love as romance. In its place she offers a proactive new ethic for a people and a society bereft with lovelessness. As bell hooks uses her incisive mind and razor-sharp pen to explode th question "What is love?" her answers strike at both the mind and heart. In thirteen concise chapters, hooks examines her own search for emotional connection and society's failure to provide a model for learning to love. 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 the individuals and for a nation. The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the "100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life." All About Love is a powerful affirmation of just how profoundly she can.
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bell hooks
bell hooks was an influential American author, feminist, and social activist whose work focused on the intersections of race, gender, and class. Born on September 25, 1952, in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, hooks dedicated her life to examining the ways in which society perpetuates systems of oppression and domination. She published over 30 books, including notable works such as "Ain't I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism," "All About Love: New Visions," and "The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love." hooks' writing is characterized by its accessibility, intellectual rigor, and thought-provoking critique of cultural norms, making her an essential voice in contemporary feminist discourse.
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- Authors
- bell hooks
- Published
- January 2001
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- ISBN
- 0060959479
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 248
- Genres
- Self-HelpEmotional IntelligenceSpiritual GrowthSpirituality and ReligionHealthy Boundaries
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