All About Love
by bell hooks
- feminist ethics
- love
- social science
- popular culture
- african american studies
- interpersonal relations
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A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces.
“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. Provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks speaks to society stricken with lovelessness—not the lack of romance, but the lack of care, compassion, and unity. People are divided, she declares, by society’s failure to provide a model for learning to love.
In this landmark book, bell hooks explores the question “What is love?” Disputing 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. All About Love is a powerful, timely affirmation of just how profoundly love and community can change hearts and minds for the better. Part of the groundbreaking "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy that includes Communion and SalvationOn the New York Times bestseller list for over a year.Speaks to the mind and the heart about the transformational power of love to heal society.
Quotes by bell hooks
From WikiquoteI have wanted them to have this simple definition to read again and again so they know: Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.
Today’s fashion magazines may carry an article about the dangers of anorexia while bombarding its readers with images of emaciated young bodies representing the height of beauty and desirability.
Creation spirituality replaced a patriarchal spirituality rooted in notions of fall and redemption.
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Black looksbell hooksBlack looksbell hooks
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The will to changebell hooksThe will to changebell hooks
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We Real Coolbell hooksWe Real Coolbell hooks
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Talking backbell hooksTalking backbell hooks
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Feminism Is for Everybodybell hooksFeminism Is for Everybodybell hooks
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Ain't I a Womanbell hooksAin't I a Womanbell hooks
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Sisters of the Yambell hooksSisters of the Yambell hooks
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Yearning1990Yearning
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Feminist theory1984Feminist theory
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Communion2002Communion
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Reel to real1996Reel to real
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Breaking bread1991Breaking bread
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Belonging2008Belonging
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Teaching critical thinking2009Teaching critical thinking
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