All About Love by bell hooks

All About Love

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bell hooks

HarperCollins · Print & ebook · January 9, 2001

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.

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Who it’s for
A clear, layered look at love that reads like guidance without pretending to be easy.
Themes
love, compassion, social healing
Pacing
Reflective

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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.

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“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 offers a proactive new ethic for a 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?” Her answers strike at both the mind and heart. 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.

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A clear, layered look at love that reads like guidance without pretending to be easy.

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  • love, self, and the work of thinking clearly
  • book-club conversation with some spine

Expect

  • identity-shifting questions
  • practical reflection

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Feminist Theory & Criticism44%
Social Science Essays27%
Love & Romance25%

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  • Art History
  • Love & Romance
  • Relationships
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Authors
bell hooks
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
January 9, 2001
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
love · compassion · social healing
Reading lane
Art History