About this title: bell hooks explores personal and social ideas of love, and soberly discusses how to move beyond the often flawed expectations of love that are engendered since childhood.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: William Morrow
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780688168445ISBN:0688168442
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780688168445ISBN:0688168442
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Date Published: 2001-01-01
ISBN-13:9780060959470ISBN:0060959479
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Date Published: 2001
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Perennial
Date Published: 2001-01-01
ISBN-13:9780060959470ISBN:0060959479
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Description: All About Love: New Visions. By Hooks, Bell, 1st edition 2000 William Morrow. ISBN: 0688168442. SIGNED by author on title page. 239pgs. HB/DJ VG+/VG+, 2 lbs. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: William Morrow & Co, New York
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780688168445ISBN:0688168442
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed by Author. First printing. Inscribed by the author on the title page. The spine ends are a bit softened. There is a tiny scuff mark on the front board. Two leaves have tiny corner creases. Otherwise fine. The dust jacket has spots of wear on the spine ends and the corners. There is a scuff mark and some wrinkles on the back face. The flap price is intact. read more
Description: Fine; Collectible. Collectible stated 1st Edition (2000, HC), 1st printing with 10 full numberline. Excellent condition. Appears unread. No writings/underlines/highlights. Pages are very nice and clean. Minor shelfwear. Free deliver confirmation! Satisfaction guaranteed! read more
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"I felt like I was reading a self-help book and was panicked that someone would read over my shoulder on the bus and think I was a lonely, single woman in her thirties looking for love... If it weren't for the fact that it was written by bell hooks I wouldn't have read it. That said, she brings up some compelling points and has some spot on analysis of New Age philosophies. It's bell hooks. Probably a book to reread at times."
"Bell Hooks writes and imparts her wisdom about love in this book. She begins with defining love to the reader, and she found no good definition until she read Erich Fromm, who defined it as "the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth" (4).
In the section of Love and Community, Hooks mentions how friends are a big part of Love - sometimes friends are all that you have if you don't have love from family and sometimes they are the ones that show you what real love is.
There is also a section where Hooks mentions that when we meet someone, we don't as our society calls it "fall in love," we choose who we love. "Falling in love" implies that we don't have a choice and we do.
If an individual wants to love another, they must love themself first in order to know what true love is. A lot of people don't know this and simply "hook up" because society expects them to be in a "romantic" relationship.
Another part I found intersting, is when Hooks mentions that the patriarchal society we live in expects boys to not show their true feelings because men don't show emotions and even though as parents we might teach our child/ren that it's okay to show emotions, that child will still follow the group and do what the other boys do, to fit in.
Here are some of the quotes that I have to share:
"And while it has been crucial for collective self-recovery that we have exposed and continue to expose dysfunction, it is equally important to revel in and celebrate its absence" (210).
"Healthy families resolve conflict without coercion, shaming or violence" (210).
".. a man who genuinely loves his mother is likely to be a better friend, partner, or mate than a man who has always been overly dependent on his mother, expecting her to unconditionally meet all his needs" (228).
"Shame about woundness helps many people from seeking healing. They would rather deny or repress the reality of hurt" (232)."
"haven't read bell hooks in a long time, since gender studies in fact, but this is well worth reading. i love the way hooks distills her academic thinking and her personal history and map into one accessible collection of ideas. this one being- basically-- "all we need is love" but in a post-modern, critically-thought way."
"Bell Hooks has a very level headed approach to love. At times I found myself thinking that the book was a bit cheezey, but that is probably due to my cynical upbringing, as she points out. I like the way she is very firm in her belief that anything less than complete mutual respect, trust, and nurturing is unacceptable in a loving relationship. Also that relationships ought to be chosen carefully and that they should not be based purely on feeling alone. She points out that people, and especially women, are too willing to accept abusive relationships, whether that is emotional, physical, or psychological. She also points out that our society condones abusive relationships since we tend to be conditioned in this cynical way (which I mentioned I am also guilty of). Thanks Bell Hooks!"
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