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THE ACCLAIMED FIRST VOLUME IN HER "LOVE SONG TO THE NATION"
“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, the renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist skewers our view of love as romance. In its place she offers a proactive new ethic for a people and a society bereft with lovelessness.
As Bell Hooks uses her incisive mind and razor-sharp pen to explore the question “What is love?” her answers strike at both the mind and heart. In thirteen concise chapters, hooks examines her own search for emotional connection and society’s failure to provide a model for learning to love. 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 affirmation of just how profoundly she can.
Download PDF All About Love New Visions bell hooks 0884968027749 Books
"I am trying to play around with the genre of books I read and non-fiction is a genre that I only recently have started reading. And this book is a great non-fictional read. It is honest and filled with ideas and thoughts and feelings that a lot of people have (including me) but cannot necessarily articulate into words. It made me question a lot of my ideas and I liked that.
There were times when the book was a little repetitive, which isn’t necessarily bad (since it emphasized and highlighted the theme she was trying to bring forth) but I found slightly exhausting.
Overall this book is an amazing read. In today’s world, where we find ourselves defining love and all our expectations that come with it as subjective since it is unmeasurable, unlike power and money and status, All about Love serves to question its subjectivity and how this subjectivity is what makes it so hard for people to feel loved.
Most importantly, this book brought up some important questions that I never even thought to question - such as “is giving care and feeling cared for, the same as loving and feeling loved?â€
Bella hooks also does a great job with addressing sexism in our society today and the effect it has on individuals.
This book is thought-provoking and enlightening and and a “let’s all feel better as individuals and members of a society†read!"
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All About Love New Visions bell hooks 0884968027749 Books Reviews
- This book is literally life changing. I'm always recommending it to everyone I know and my copy is super beat up from lending it out so often. I've underlined so many lines and I've written lots of poems inspired by this book. Definitely worth your time and it's really easy to read so you can get through it really quickly!
- Beautifully written reminders and excellent critique on what it means to love in today's societal climate. Strongly recommended for people who want to learn more about a subject that should be taught in school but never was. Lessons can be found for everyone at any stage in life. Recommended especially for people who were raised by adults that werent good "love models."
- I am trying to play around with the genre of books I read and non-fiction is a genre that I only recently have started reading. And this book is a great non-fictional read. It is honest and filled with ideas and thoughts and feelings that a lot of people have (including me) but cannot necessarily articulate into words. It made me question a lot of my ideas and I liked that.
There were times when the book was a little repetitive, which isn’t necessarily bad (since it emphasized and highlighted the theme she was trying to bring forth) but I found slightly exhausting.
Overall this book is an amazing read. In today’s world, where we find ourselves defining love and all our expectations that come with it as subjective since it is unmeasurable, unlike power and money and status, All about Love serves to question its subjectivity and how this subjectivity is what makes it so hard for people to feel loved.
Most importantly, this book brought up some important questions that I never even thought to question - such as “is giving care and feeling cared for, the same as loving and feeling loved?â€
Bella hooks also does a great job with addressing sexism in our society today and the effect it has on individuals.
This book is thought-provoking and enlightening and and a “let’s all feel better as individuals and members of a society†read! - This is a book every young woman needs to read, I see myself rereading it in years to come. bell hooks addresses all of the heart issues and pains I’ve felt throughout the years and it’s written so logically. She doesn’t draw on emotions, but logic and growth, she rationalizes the emotions and circumstances many of us feel but can’t manage. Through the use of her own experiences, as well as the texts of other authors she has created something that is truly amazing and healing, I’ve literally referred this book to everyone I know
- 1/2-way in, this book is a disorganized review of other peoples work mixed with opinions, generalizations, tropes, and stereotypes. Frankly, I find a lack of compassion for everyone involved. The worldview puts men and women on different teams, and if that is the kind of love you want, go for it. It's a tiresome feminist tea-party rant about "patriarchy" that lacks responsibility, compassion, or any kind of innovation on the topic.
- Very heave book. It makes you explore not just the love you've experienced, but everything. This book has helped me be able to understand people in a much deeper way. Everyone operates differently based on whatever trauma they have or haven't faced in life. I haven't finished the entire book yet because it is a deep read. Make sure that you have a highlighter, pen and notebook nearby. For me it was more study material than just a quick easy read. You have to take the time to digest and process what she's teaching you.
- I loved bell hooks take on love. She does a good job of asserting her feminist viewpoint, while still referencing important experts (like Scott Peck) who have already written extensively on the topic. It was very digestible and certainly something I will recommend to others when they are struggling with what real love means.
- bell hooks gives us a breakdown of what we think we know what love is and what it could actually be. This book has made me question what I thought was love. I haven't thought about it the same after reading this book. She provides great definitions and ways of looking at love. A must have in the library.
