All About Love
eBook - ePub

All About Love

New Visions

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

All About Love

New Visions

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

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction: Grace: Touched by Love
  7. One: Clarity: Give Love Words
  8. Two: Justice: Childhood Love Lessons
  9. Three: Honesty: Be True to Love
  10. Four: Commitment: Let Love Be Love in Me
  11. Five: Spirituality: Divine Love
  12. Six: Values: Living by a Love Ethnic
  13. Seven: Greed: Simply Love
  14. Eight: Community: Loving Communion
  15. Nine: Mutuality: The Heart of Love
  16. Ten: Romance: Sweet Love
  17. Eleven: Loss: Loving into Life and Death
  18. Twelve: Healing: Redemptive Love
  19. Thirteen: Destiny: When Angels Speak of Love
  20. Quotations Are Reprinted From
  21. About the Author
  22. Praise
  23. Also by bell hooks
  24. Copyright
  25. About the Publisher