All About Love by Bell Hooks

All About Love

New Visions

Bell Hooks

All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our private and public lives. In eleven concise chapters, hooks explains how our everyday notions of what it means to give and receive love often fail us, and how these ideals are established in early childhood. She offers a rethinking of self-love (without narcissism) that will bring peace and compassion to our personal and professional lives, and asserts the place of love to end struggles between individuals, in communities, and among societies. Moving from the cultural to the intimate, hooks notes the ties between love and loss and challenges the prevailing notion that romantic love is the most important love of all.

Visionary and original, hooks shows how love heals the wounds we bear as individuals and as a nation, for it is the cornerstone of compassion and forgiveness and holds the power to overcome shame.

For readers who have found ongoing delight and wisdom in bell hooks’s life and work, and for those who are just now discovering her, All About Love is essential reading and a brilliant book that will change how we think about love, our culture-and one another.


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Details

ISBN 9780688168445
Genre LGBT Studies/Social Sciences
Copyright Date 2000
Publication Date 01-Jan-00
Publisher William Morrow
Format Hardcover
No. of Pages 240
Language English
Rating NotRated
Paper Type Electronic Format Available
Subject Feminist Ethics; Love
BookID 278

Author: LFWBooks