All About Love

New Visions

239 pages

Langue : English

Publié 2 novembre 2018

ISBN :
978-0-06-095947-0
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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.

7 éditions

Fondamental

Je suis heureuse d'avoir pu lire cette traduction, et tellement affligée de ne pas avoir eu ce livre entre mes mains il y a de très nombreuses années... Genre au tout début de mon apprentissage féministe et relationnel amoureux. Je me serais épargné bien des errances et des souffrances inutiles au pays des livres de développement personnels foireux et des relations amoureuses patriarcales. Ce livre m'a aidé à y voir beaucoup plus clair, à comprendre enfin ce qui n'allait pas en matière d'amour dans ma vie, et aussi à comprendre mon attrait inaltérable pour l'amitié depuis l'enfance (ce qui étonnait tant de gens autour de moi). C'est un guide très précieux que je compte bien offrir à de nombreux proches.

All about love

Bell hooks proses and musings on love. Not sure why, but I expected it to be a feminist text engaging with the idea of love. It is more a love text engaging with feminism. I recently lost my mom and "recently" ended a handful of important relationships and want to engage with this concept of love from someone I respect. I want to both play with an openness to love and optimism being apart of politics and I want to feel open to love when feeling like vulnerability can be so hard.

I liked her engagement with childhood and learning love that we reproduce when we are older, at least when we don't interrogate it and seek to change that relationship. And her critiques of patriarchy and the ways that socialized men and socialized women commonly relate to love, care, and empathy.

The section on grief and love …

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I was wondering "what is it with love and our culture ?" (A certain type of) love seems to be everywhere in the media and in social norms, and nowhere in theory and philosophy, and general social sciences. Then I picked up this book, and it helped me articulate a lot of things. For most of the book I just thought "that's it exactly!"

Essential reading.

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