All About Love
1999 • 239 pages
Ratings32
Average rating3.9
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Ratings32
Average rating3.9
All About Love: New Visions is a book by bell hooks published in 2000 that discusses aspects of love in modern society. Hooks combines personal anecdotes as well as psychological and philosophical ideas to develop and strengthen her argument. She focuses on romantic love and believes that in American culture men have been socialized to mistrust the value and power of love while women have been socialized to be loving in most situations – even when their need to receive love goes unmet.
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1 primary book6 released booksLove Trilogy is a 6-book series with 1 primary work first released in 1999 with contributions by bell hooks, Karolina Iwaszkiewicz, and C.S. Janey.
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I really can't believe this book. I need like a million copies so that everyone in my life can read it. Hot take: love is a force for good?
What a wonderful first book of the year. So much love clearly went into writing this book about love, which encompasses not only romantic love but all relationships and a “love ethic” with which we treat ourselves and strangers. There are some dated moments (including a weird condemnation of Monica Lewinsky?) but overall this is a timeless book. One that I feel might be worth a yearly revisit.
I really enjoyed the hooks' perspective on love and her exploration of the concept of loving. My only faults with the book are that it was a bit to religious for my taste and it was also heteronormative.
