Third, hooks details the genealogy of love, again contending with the gendered expectations and the contradictions surrounding and accepting that we know so little about love in theory and in practice. Second, she presents that love as a theoretical concept is often narrated by men, whereas women are expected to be the practitioners of love. Conceived by the necessity of a definition for love, in the midst of an increasingly loveless society, this tells us “how to return to love.” First, hooks contends with the cynicism surrounding love in popular culture, to name that many people use that cynicism to mask their fear of disappointment and heartbreak. 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.All About Love is an important contribution that seeks to fill a long-existing gap in the literature on love, especially through the perspective of a woman. 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. People are divided, she declares, by society’s failure to provide a model for learning to love.Īs bell hooks uses her incisive mind to explore the question “What is love?” her answers strike at both the mind and heart.

Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft with lovelessness-not the lack of romance, but the lack of care, compassion, and unity.

“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 is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces.

The acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' 'Love Song to the Nation,” All About Love is a revelation about what causes a polarized society and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering.

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