Communion
The Female Search for Love
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · December 24, 2002
“When truth teller and careful writer bell hooks offers a book, I like to be standing at the bookshop when it opens.” –Maya Angelou Renowned visionary bell hooks explored the meaning of love in American culture with the critically acclaimed bestseller All About Love: New Visions.
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- Who it’s for
- A thoughtful, feminist meditation on love, identity, and the pull of belonging.
- Themes
- love, feminism, self-discovery
- Pacing
- Reflective
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“When truth teller and careful writer bell hooks offers a book, I like to be standing at the bookshop when it opens.” –Maya Angelou Renowned visionary bell hooks explored the meaning of love in American culture with the critically acclaimed bestseller All About Love: New Visions. She continued her national dialogue with the bestselling Salvation: Black People and Love. Now hooks culminates her triumphant trilogy of love with Communion: The Female Search for Love.
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Intimate, revealing, provocative, Communion challenges every woman to courageously claim the search for love as the heroic journey we must all choose to be truly free. In her trademark commanding and lucid language, hooks explores the ways ideas about women and love were changed by the feminist movement, by women's full participation in the workforce, and by the culture of self-help, and reveals how women of all ages can bring love into every aspect of their lives, for all the years of their lives. Communion is the heart-to-heart talk every woman -- mother, daughter, friend, and lover -- needs to have.
Love, Considered
A thoughtful, feminist meditation on love, identity, and the pull of belonging.
Come here for
- feminist reflections on love
- layered questions of nature and self
Expect
- intimate, idea-rich reading
- more argument than anecdote
Where it sits
| Love & Romance | 45% |
|---|---|
| Women's Studies | 38% |
| Feminist Theory & Criticism | 34% |
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Publisher categories
- Love & Romance
- Emotions
- Relationships
- Feminist Theory & Criticism
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- Pop Culture Studies
- Marriage & Family
- Women's Studies
- Gender Studies
- Authors
- bell hooks
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- December 24, 2002
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- love · feminism · self-discovery
- Reading lane
- Love & Romance