All About Love
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4.4 • 196 Ratings
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
Read by Audiofile Golden Voice Narrator January LaVoy. 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.
Customer Reviews
LISTEN AT LEAST 1x a year
This book is soul filling for me. I love the way Ms. Hooks ties in her personal experiences as well as research found. I listen or read this book at least 1 time a year but often times i need a refresher so I’ll read it again. Send this book to anyone who says “I love you” !
Christian brainwash
This is Christian propaganda, well some points are valid, a lot of them are not backed up by research. Most points made are actually proven scientifical unhelpful. This author does not take into account culture and the fact that we are HUMAN.
Political charged view on Love :(
Very political. I was really just looking for a book on how to love people in general. Waste of 17$ :(
Really wanted the author to give practical examples on how to love your spouse, kids, and friends. All I got was political agendas.
Really wish people could keep that out of books and just focus on actually LOVE.
If you want a political charged view of love perfect book for you.