All about Love: New Visions

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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.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Hooks, Bell
  • ISBN: 9780060959470
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.00 x 0.70
  • Number Of Pages: 272
  • Publication Year: 2001

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  • A topical feminist dissection of how love is the most important aspect of any society.

    Ava B. - 2 years 8 months ago

    bell hooks' "All About Love" constructs the narrative that love is the foundation of a just society. Weaving in personal anecdotes and cultural happenings, hooks deciphers the true meaning of love, in a deeper sense than romance and attraction. Without haughtiness, hooks eloquently explores how society is divided on the basis of a lack of love and understanding. Part feminist essay and part social criticism, this is the first must-read that always comes to mind when recommending a book.

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  • Redefining what it means to Love

    Cynthia M. - 4 years 11 months ago

    This has been one of my favorite quarantine reads and one of my favorite reads ever. In this book, Bell Hooks begs you to explore your own understanding of Love and what it means to Love. This is a book I want to read over and over again just to remind myself of the power of Love. #SpringPicks

  • Redefining love in multiple meanings

    Alicja P. - 5 years 10 months ago

    This is the best book I have read explaining the interpersonal connections to people around us. The books is written in light, catchy tone, which anyone can relate to. I think this is very valuable read and worth spending time on.

  • Powerful read to inspire self-reflection

    Sarah W. - 5 years 11 months ago

    This book was a powerful exploration of redefining the word "love" in a universal way. I found it challenged and inspired me to think deeper and reevaluate some aspects of relationships. Written almost 20 years ago now, it was interesting to see what ideas hooks introduces in the text that have made a formative impression on our society today, particularly in our newly developed focus on self-care.