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All About Love

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THE ACCLAIMED FIRST VOLUME IN HER “LOVE SONG TO THE NATION”

“The word ‘love’ is most often defined as a noun, yet . . . 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. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, 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 explore the 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 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.
Social ScienceEthnic StudiesFamily & RelationshipsGender StudiesLove & RomanceWomen's Studies
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207 printed pages
Publication year
2018

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  • Constanza Cruz Alonsoshared an impression5 years ago

    bell hooks aborda el tema del amor en diversos aspectos de la sociedad, incluso el amor romántico pero también el lado político del amor. Definitivamente este libro cambió la concepción que tenía del amor.

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  • Lucero De La Fuenteshared an impression5 years ago

    Lleno de sabiduría

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    • Gabriela Cristina Horcasitasshared an impression3 years ago
      💡Learnt A Lot

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      Quotes

      • forgetenothas quoted4 years ago
        I am grateful to have been raised in a family that was caring, and strongly believe that had my parents been loved well by their parents they would have given that love to their children. They gave what they had been given—care.
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      • forgetenothas quoted4 years ago
        In The Knitting Sutra, Susan Lydon describes the labor of knitting as a freely chosen craft that enhances her awareness of the value of right livelihood, sharing: “What I found in this tiny domestic world of knitting is endless; it runs broader and deeper than anyone might imagine. It is infinite and seemingly inexhaustible in its capacity to inspire, excite, and provoke creative insight.” Lydon sees the world that we have traditionally thought of as “woman’s work” as a place to discover godliness through the act of creating domestic bliss. A blissful household is one where love can flourish.
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      • Varaidzo Jabangwehas quoted2 years ago
        When we love we can let our hearts speak.
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