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All about Love: New Visions Hardback - 1999

by Bell Hooks

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Readers describe bell hooks’ All About Love as galvanizing yet polarizing. Many praised its clear, practical definition of love as action and its uncompromising claim that love and abuse cannot coexist—insights some found life-changing and healing, especially for processing trauma. Critics objected to a sermon-like tone, heavy emphasis on spirituality, and a heteronormative, binary approach to gender; several also cited sweeping generalizations, limited sourcing, class-blind examples, and dated, controversial references. The prose struck some as repetitive and self-help–leaning. Even so, many acknowledged valuable, applicable ideas amid the flaws, and admirers deemed it essential for ethical reflection on love.

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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.

"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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  • Title All about Love: New Visions
  • Author Bell Hooks
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First edition
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher William Morrow & Company, New York
  • Publication date 1999-12
  • ISBN 9780688168445 / 0688168442
  • Weight 0.92 lbs (0.42 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.25 x 5.5 x 0.85 in (20.96 x 13.97 x 2.16 cm)
  • Category Psychology
  • Library of Congress subjects Love, Feminist ethics
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99035253
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.409
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