That’s why I really appreciate bell hooks’ All About Love: New Visions.
Lots of people are cynical about it, and for good reason. It’s elusive, difficult, and takes hard work to maintain. Love is not as easy as they make it seem in the movies. If you grew up thinking this is what your life would be like, you’re probably now feeling like you’ve been robbed. 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.Listen to the audio of this summary with a free reading.fm account*:ĭo you remember seeing those princess movies as a child? You know, the ones where it would have this cheesy, unbelievable “love at first sight” story? The worst part was when the show would end by painting this picture of “happily ever after.” 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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