All About Love

The acclaimed first volume in bell hooks' 'Love Song to the Nation' & / #8220 / The word & / #8216 / love& / #8217 / is most often defined as a noun, yet . . . we would all love better if we used it as a verb,& / #8221 / writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in  / All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal,  / bell hooks (renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist) skewers our view of love as romance. In its place she offers a proactive new ethic for a people and a society bereft with lovelessness. As  / bell  / hooks  / uses her incisive mind and razor-sharp pen to explore the question & / #8220 / What is love?& / #8221 / her answers strike at both the mind and heart. In thirteen concise chapters, hooks examines her own search for emotional connection and society& / #8217 / s failure to provide a model for learning to love. 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. The  / Utne Reader  / declared bell hooks one of the & / #8220 / 100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life.& / #8221 /   / All About Love  / is a powerful affirmation of just how profoundly she can.