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COMMUNION Pb - 2002
by HOOKS,BELL
- New
- Paperback
In the final book of her love trilogy that began with "all about love" and "salvation, " bell hooks explores the ways ideas about women and love were changed by the feminist movement, by women's full participation in the workforce, by the culture of self-help, and by popular media forces such as television and movies.
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Details
- Title COMMUNION
- Author HOOKS,BELL
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher William Morrow & Company, New York, New York
- Publication date 2002-12-24
- Bookseller's Inventory # 9780060938291
- ISBN 9780060938291 / 0060938293
- Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.7 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 1.78 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Multicultural
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Self-Esteem
- Category Love / Sex / Marriage
- Library of Congress subjects Man-woman relationships, Love
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2001044711
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.409
- Quantity available 5
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Reader reviews for COMMUNION
Review summary
Readers widely praised the book’s accessible prose and emotionally resonant call for self-love, community, and the legitimacy of nonsexual “romantic friendships,” while challenging patriarchy’s scripts. Many, however, criticized its sweeping generalizations, heteronormative lens, repetition, and reliance on personal anecdote and self-help quotations, noting a lack of rigor, clearer definitions, and fuller LGBTQ+ inclusion. Some found it timeless and galvanizing; others felt it dated or uneven.
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From the publisher
First line
VERY day I talk to women about love and aging.
From the rear cover
Renowned visionary and theorist bell hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in American culture with the critically acclaimed 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.
Intimate, revealing, provocative, Communion challenges every female 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 feminist movement, by women's full participation in the workforce, and by the culture of self-help.
Communion is the heart-to-heart talk every woman -- mother, daughter, friend, and lover -- needs to have.
