The acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' Love
Song to the Nation, All About Love is a revelation
about what causes a polarized society and how to heal the divisions
that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration
to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes,
schools, and workplaces.
"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, renowned scholar, cultural critic
and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society
bereft with lovelessness--not the lack of romance, but the lack of
care, compassion, and unity. People are divided, she declares, by
society's failure to provide a model for learning to love.
As bell hooks uses
her incisive mind to explore the question "What is love?"
her answers strike at both the mind and heart. 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 "100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life." All
About Love is a powerful, timely affirmation of just how
profoundly her revelations can change hearts and minds for the
better.