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All About Love: New Visions by Bell Hooks (Paperback)

All About Love: New Visions by Bell Hooks (Paperback)

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Nonfiction - Psychology / Interpersonal Relations

RELEASE DATE: 1/30/2018

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. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft 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.

As bell hooks uses her incisive mind to explore the question "What is love?" her answers strike at both the mind and heart. 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. The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the "100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life." All About Love is a powerful, timely affirmation of just how profoundly her revelations can change hearts and minds for the better.

AUTHOR BIO: 

bell hooks was an influential cultural critic, feminist theorist, and writer. Celebrated as one of America's leading public intellectuals, she was a charismatic speaker and writer who taught and lectured around the world. Previously a professor in the English departments at Yale University and Oberlin College, hooks was the author of more than 17 books, including the New York Times bestseller All About Love: New VisionsSalvation: Black People and LoveCommunion: the Female Search for Love, as well as the landmark memoir Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood.

“Each offering from bell hooks is a major event, as she has so much to give us.” -Maya Angelou
“Like love, this book is worth the commitment.” -Toronto Sun
“She provides a refreshing spiritual treatise that steps outside the confines of the intellect and into the wilds of the heart.” -Seattle Weekly
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