![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() All About Love is a powerful affirmation of just how profoundly she can. The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the 100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life. 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. 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. ![]() In its place she offers a proactive new ethic for a people and a society bereft with lovelessness. Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions 3. When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment. Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions 2. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, the renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist skewers our view of love as romance. Love is an action, never simply a feeling. 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. ![]()
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