bell hooks

Renowned visionary and theorist bell hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in American culture with the critically acclaimed All About Love: New Visions. She continued her national dialogue with the bestselling Salvation: Black People and Love. Now hooks culminates her triumphant trilogy of love with Communion: The Female Search for Love. Intimate, revealing, provocative, Communion challenges every female to courageously claim the search for love as the heroic journey we must all choose to be truly free. In her trademark commanding and lucid language, hooks explores the ways ideas about women and love were changed by feminist movement, by women's full participation in the workforce, and by the culture of self-help. Communion is the heart-to-heart talk every woman -- mother, daughter, friend, and lover -- needs to have.

The Female Search for Love

Communion

Renowned visionary and theorist bell hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in American culture with the critically acclaimed bestseller All About Love: New Visions. She continued her national dialogue with the bestselling Salvation: Black People and Love. Now hooks culminates her triumphant trilogy of love with Communion: The Female Search for Love. Intimate, revealing, provocative, Communion challenges every woman to courageously claim the search for love as the heroic journey we must all choose to be truly free. In her trademark commanding and lucid language, hooks explores the ways ideas about women and love were changed by the feminist movement, by women's full participation in the workforce, and by the culture of self-help. Communion is the heart-to-heart talk every woman -- mother, daughter, friend, and lover -- needs to have.

aisha

We count ourselves lucky that our love abides, that it has stood the test of time and different choices.

kaitlan

4? 5? can’t decide but either way how has it taken this long for me to read bell hooks

some thoughts:
- possibly the most feminist thing i have read, and i appreciate that
- do i go back to school because honestly i really enjoyed this and would like to discuss/hear a lecture on it
- i wonder how i will see love and intimacy differently midlife

some quotes:
 The time has come to tell the truth. Again. There is no love without justice.

Rather than embracing faulty thinking that encourages us to believe that females are inherently loving, we make the choice to become loving. Choosing love, we affirm our agency, our commitment to personal growth, our emotional openness.

When we are self-loving, we attend to the deeper needs of our soul, we no longer fear abandonment or loss of recognition. We see ourselves clearly as we really are. And that clarity is the source of our strength and peace of mind.

…life is held in common. Whether we know it or not, we exist because we exchange, because we move the gift.

Bell Hooks

Back injury among healthcare providers is an increasingly visible issue in the occupational health and safety arena. This book presents research and information from the epidemiological, legal and equipment manufacturing point of view. Using case histories from a number of injured healthcare workers, the book analyses back injuries from the worker's point of view and gives a detailed discussion of the legal and rehabilitation pitfalls that workers face when dealing with an injury. The author compares US and international regulations for prevention and rehabilitation and explores scientific strategies to prevent future problems.

antonia maria wagner she/they

I generously enjoy reading bell hooks. I also would like everyone to read her smart and wise words. The book really summed up the theoretical frame of "the female search for love" and all its occuring obstacles, thoughts, thraumas. I feel it was general and focused at the same time, on some topics I would have loved to read more, but for starters - especially women to investigate themselves, it is a very, very good read. 

Communion The Female Search for Love

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