
- 272 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Grace: Touched by Love
- One: Clarity: Give Love Words
- Two: Justice: Childhood Love Lessons
- Three: Honesty: Be True to Love
- Four: Commitment: Let Love Be Love in Me
- Five: Spirituality: Divine Love
- Six: Values: Living by a Love Ethnic
- Seven: Greed: Simply Love
- Eight: Community: Loving Communion
- Nine: Mutuality: The Heart of Love
- Ten: Romance: Sweet Love
- Eleven: Loss: Loving into Life and Death
- Twelve: Healing: Redemptive Love
- Thirteen: Destiny: When Angels Speak of Love
- Quotations Are Reprinted From
- About the Author
- Praise
- Also by bell hooks
- Copyright
- About the Publisher