All About Love

Description

All About Love (Love Song to the Nation)
by Bell Hooks

ISBN: 9780060959470
Softcover, new

Brief Description:
“The word “love” is most often defined as a noun, yet…we would all love
to 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 explode 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 the
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.