The word 'love' is most often defined as a noun, yet...we would all love better if we used it as a verb.
What if love isn’t something you fall into—but something you practice? Visionary cultural critic bell hooks dismantles romantic fantasies and offers a radical alternative: love as transformative action. Sharp, honest, and deeply hopeful, this modern classic illuminates a path toward authentic connection and healing.
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What if we’ve been thinking about love all wrong? In All About Love, bell hooks—visionary cultural critic and one of The Utne Reader‘s “100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life”—dismantles our romantic fantasies and offers something far more radical: a practical ethic of love as action, not feeling.
With her signature blend of scholarly insight and raw personal honesty, hooks asks the question that haunts our loveless age: “What is love?” Her answer is both simple and revolutionary. Love isn’t a noun to possess—it’s a verb to practice. Through thirteen compelling chapters, she traces her own journey toward emotional connection while exposing how society has failed to teach us the most essential human skill: how to love.
This isn’t a book about candlelit dinners or finding “the one.” hooks challenges the cultural myth that authentic love requires sexual desire, instead illuminating a path toward love that is sacred, redemptive, and genuinely healing. She writes with a razor-sharp pen that cuts through our comfortable illusions, yet her message is ultimately hopeful: we can learn to love better, both individually and as a community.
Perfect for readers interested in African American studies, feminist thought, and the intersection of personal transformation and social change, All About Love remains urgently relevant. Whether you’re seeking to deepen your relationships or understand the emotional disconnection plaguing modern life, hooks provides both diagnosis and cure—a new vision of love powerful enough to change not just your life, but our world.
The word 'love' is most often defined as a noun, yet...we would all love better if we used it as a verb.
The most comprehensive and intensive of her many books on the subject of love.
A call to arms for a return to love as the foundation for a just and equitable society.
A book about love that is not sentimental but deeply practical and transformative.
| Weight | 0.43 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 8.00 × 5.30 × 0.70 in |
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| Subject | African American & Black Studies, American, Ethnic Studies, Family Relationships, Love & Romance, Social Science |
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