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For Ariel: All about Love: New Visions, by bell hooks
Ariel’s a girl who’s all about love, even when the people she lavishes her love on don’t treat her that well in return (well, not Flounder. Never Flounder). In All about Love, bell hooks asks what love is, and how it has been twisted by things like negative cultural influences to produce an idea of love that’s almost the exact opposite of the open, self-loving, generous force it actually is. A beautiful, upbeat reflection on what love can do, All about Love could lead Ariel to value herself more, and stop twisting herself into what she thinks she should be.
"The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet...we would all love better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, the 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 ...
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