The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. I would def recommend people read this but I’m excited to read All About Love bc I think that’s the one everyone really loves. There was a lot less I disagreed with in this book, and I could see she made more of an attempt to be LGBTQ+ inclusive (although weak and insufficient). And while most of the platitudes held true for me personally, I don't expect they'll hold true for all women. I don't know a whole lot about feminist theory, but what I learned about it here I found fascinating.

I want to be clear that although I've talked at length about things I perceived as weaknesses, there was actually more that I did like about it.Her writing focused on the interconnectivity of race, class, and gender and their ability to produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and domination. Hooks presents the idea of love being an individualized feature that exudes out only when there is overflow. In Communion, hooks, one of our most revered and acute social critics, answers all our questions about the place of love in a woman's life.

Powerful, self-loving women know that our ability to take care of our emotional needs is essential, but this does not take the place of loving fellowship and partnership.

kadınların okurken eğitim, kültür, birikim seviyesi çok önemli olmadan anlayabileceği kitaplar yazmaya çalışıyor ki kitaplarında yer yer kendisinin de şikayetlendiği "teoride iyiydi güzeldi, yaşarken hiç öyle olmadı, kimse feminist pratiğin günlük hayatta nasıl uygulanacağından bahsetmedi" minvalinde bahsettiği kısımları var.

Nothing was more frightening to women who wanted to be with men than a feminist movement exposing the depths of male contempt and disregard for the female sex. From chapter six, Women who fail at loving, Hooks questions the gender rhetoric in books like John Gray’s Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, where he “ reinscribes and overvalues” the same stereotypes that feminist scholarships has toiled to disapprove.Significantly, through Hooks writing, where she mirrors in on her family structure, one can draw parallels between the gender roles in her family and what is evident in a traditional family setting within Nigeria. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. I picked up this book because I’m on a journey of self-discovery and this seemed like the place to start for me in relation to love, self-love, and contentment. this book was written almost 25 years ago and although there were a few times where i was like hmmmm ya okay this book is as old as i am, so much of it was still so relevant. ok my 17 year old self feels a lil guilty giving 2 stars to bell hooks, an author who was so formative in developing my feminist consciousness.

In line with my current fascination with the topics of companionship and love, I am finding a lot of understanding, warmth and good old fashioned lived wisdom in critical thinking based feminist texts.Celebrated as one of our nation's leading public intellectual by The Atlantic Monthly, as well as one of Utne Reader's 100 Visionaries Who Could Change Your Life, she is a charismatic speaker who divides her time among teaching, writing, and lecturing around the world. She discusses the false idea that women are naturally more loving, showing how this is part of patriarchy, and argues that everyone can (and must) learn to love, optimally beginning in childhood. Her writing has introduced me to the idea of non-sexual romantic relationships and it just all makes sense, like, all of it. We have changed our ways of thinking about aging and we have changed our ways of thinking about love. I felt validated and appropriately chastised, and I adored how she laced her own narrative through discussion of theory.