num_pages: 270
description: In her radical new book, bell hooks challenges all our assumptions. Love is not romanticism, nor is it narcissism. Instead, it is the will to nurture our and other's spiritual growth. It cannot flourish in a hurtful or abusive environment. It is denied by patriarchal masculinity and stifled by consumer greed.hooks encourages us to examine our family backgrounds. If love is learned during childhood, how can we be surprised that violent and lying parents engender mistrustful, alienated children? Similarly, in the community, love is often driven out by the lust for material consumption, leading to drug dependency. She urges us to follow the love ethic - to work together in out communities, to value friendship, to participate in love.No matter how damaged or deprived we may have been, love's power to heal and redeem is always available. We can renew our spirit and choose to listen to the voice of hope. After all, as bell hooks reminds us in her impassioned and positive new book, love is our destiny.
language: English
title: All About Love : New Visions
titlecomplete: All About Love : New Visions
genres: Relationships, Feminism, Self Help, Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology, Spirituality, Love, Essays, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 69432
series: Love Trilogy
publisher: Women's Press