bell hooks has an amazing, simple yet articulate, way of making her points and there are so many things that I’m starting to see from a different point of view. I’m still reeling and trying to absorb everything that I read in all about love – to say that it’s visionary and made me really think is just the start of it. The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the “100 Visionaries Who Could 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. In its place, she offers a proactive new ethic for a people and a society bereft with lovelessness.Īs 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. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, the renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist skewers our view of love as romance. “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. Check out these ten books by the legendary author.All about love: new visions by bell hooks She was also the founder of the bell hooks Institute, which “celebrates, honors, and documents the life and work” of its namesake. No woman has ever written enough.”Ī native of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, hooks taught at Berea College for over 15 years. Perhaps one of her most apt quotes was this one, from 1999’s Remembered Rapture: “No Black woman writer in this culture can write ‘too much.’ Indeed, no woman writer can write ‘too much’. From her debut, Ain't I a Woman, to the celebrated All About Love, hooks’s goal was always to enlighten. Like James Baldwin, Angela Davis, and Maya Angelou, she was not just one of America's leading writers but a necessary literary voice that brought the Black community’s stories to the forefront.Īfter receiving her bachelor’s at Stanford and going on to earn a doctorate at the University of California, hooks brought her unyielding and honest perspective to the world of feminist literature. Beginning with her first poetry collection in 1978, bell hooks-the renowned professor, writer, and activist who died on Decemat age 69-wrote a total of 34 provocative works interrogating feminism and race, challenging the ways in which they are interconnected.
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