Our parents get divorced and tell us it was because they didn’t really love each other. We’re told that people are codependent and they stay together for their children. Unfortunately, most of the narrative in our culture is about how we don’t have enough love. Much of human behavior is wrapped up in our desire for love. People have different ways of finding it, including downloading dating apps and recommitting to their marriage. The Problems With LoveĮveryone wants love. We can do this by defining love in a way that makes sense for our lives and using that definition to understand the importance of love. In order to find more love, we need a better understanding of what it is and why it’s important. The problem is that most people don’t know what they should be looking for in a partner and end up looking at the wrong places or with the wrong person.

Celebrated as one of America's leading public intellectuals, she was a charismatic speaker and writer who taught and lectured around the world.1-Page Summary of All About Love Introduction 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.īell hooks was an influential cultural critic, feminist theorist, and writer. 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. In thirteen concise chapters, hooks examines her own search for emotional connection and society's failure to provide a model for learning to love. In its place she offers a proactive new ethic for a people and a society bereft with lovelessness.Īs 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. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, the renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist skewers our view of love as romance. 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.

'The word 'love' is most often defined as a noun, yet. THE ACCLAIMED FIRST VOLUME IN HER LOVE SONG TO THE NATION 10% of the purchase price of this book goes to support adult literacy through ProLiteracy-thank you!

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