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. 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. As 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.

Eloquent and powerful, this book lets us see. Wounds of Passion - by Bell Hooks (Paperback) 17.89When purchased online In Stock Add to cart About this item Specifications Dimensions (Overall):8. In its place she offers a proactive new ethic for a people and a society bereft with lovelessness. Wounds of Passion describes a woman's struggle to devote herself to writing, sharing the difficulties, the triumphs, the pleasures, and the dangers. I first came across her work in high school, when one of my best friends was reading Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life. I dont know who I would be without bell hooks influence. The little southern black girl who dreamed of being a writer from the age of ten is now a young woman entering Stanford University, away from home, from the South and Jim Crow laws, for the first time in her life. photo courtesy of the bell hooks institute. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, the renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist skewers our view of love as romance. In her 15th book, hooks continues the memoir she began in Bone Black (1996). 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 ACCLAIMED FIRST VOLUME IN HER 'LOVE SONG TO THE NATION' 'The word 'love' is most often defined as a noun, yet.

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Wounds of Passion by bell hooks