All About Love
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bell hooks
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. 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. People are divided, she declares, by society’s failure to provide a model for learning to love. As bell hooks uses her incisive mind to explore the question “What is love?” her answers strike at both the mind and heart. 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, timely affirmation of just how profoundly her revelations can change hearts and minds for the better.
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Author
bell hooks
Pages
272
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published Date
2018-01-30
ISBN
0062862170 9780062862174
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"This book will never be “too old” to read. Everything she discusses is necessary and relevant, and I cannot recommend it enough. Every single person needs to read this book. "
Jamilah
"The book was good, important, full of multiple perfect quotes, but as it went on I found it less great and universal. If the strength of the first half carried throughout this would be a great book. This is really only focused on heterosexual relationships/dynamics, and there is a lot of emphasis on male dysfunction within a relationship and how that can be bettered, reading as though if men would just clean up their acts everyone would be as perfect as we, already perfect and just waiting for men to grow/wake up, women and we could have perfect, honest, truly loving relationships. I’m sure that was not the intent, and obviously there is more content explored, and she does speak of her own experiences and thoughts of her own as her own, but then they are applied/presented as the universal issues, and that’s not useful. This books alternative title being “my musings on love, longing, neglect, babying and its affects on the heterosexual romantic relationship” feels like it encompasses what she delves into most as the book progresses. So this is a “take what resonates, leave the rest” kind of book."
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CaitVD
"i feel like i have to rethink everything i know about love so - 8.9/10"
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"Impactful. I feel I will be thinking about this book for a long time and what it truely means to love and be loved."
Tessalyn Hisey
"I really, really, REALLY wanted to love this book. I was so ready to get lost in its pages and uncover the who, what, where and why of love. But, unfortunately, this book didn’t ring true to me as a queer woman and I found it difficult to relate to. The book reads like an essay and was easy enough to follow but I just didn’t relate! Don’t get me wrong, the book is Written beautifully and is filled with important considerations about love, power dynamics & trauma but it’s simply not for me! Totally fine. "
Giulia
"Beautiful, important, insightful, and meaningful. This is a book I will come back to again and again when I have questions about relationships (family, friends, partners) or need insight "
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Eve
"I am currently reading The Mountain is You by Brianna Wiest"
Temeshia
"Loved it!!!"
Kimberly Estriplet
"maybe i’ll continue reading this book (essay) one day"
Christina Triolo
"I enjoyed this book! An easy read to follow. A very productive reading to further the the pondering question of what is love? I feel how she defines love in this book resonates and I love how she explains in depth. She analyzes how western culture has portrayed love wrong in the media and how it is often misunderstood and even misrepresented in families. Neglecting children is the most common form of abuse in America and She explains that impacts all of our understanding on how to love. "
Veronica Prieto
