bell hooks

All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our private and public lives. In eleven concise chapters, hooks explains how our everyday notions of what it means to give and receive love often fail us, and how these ideals are established in early childhood. She offers a rethinking of self-love (without narcissism) that will bring peace and compassion to our personal and professional lives, and asserts the place of love to end struggles between individuals, in communities, and among societies. Moving from the cultural to the intimate, hooks notes the ties between love and loss and challenges the prevailing notion that romantic love is the most important love of all. Visionary and original, hooks shows how love heals the wounds we bear as individuals and as a nation, for it is the cornerstone of compassion and forgiveness and holds the power to overcome shame. For readers who have found ongoing delight and wisdom in bell hooks's life and work, and for those who are just now discovering her, All About Love is essential reading and a brilliant book that will change how we think about love, our culture-and one another.

New Visions

All About Love

men, masculinity, and love

The will to change

Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics.

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

In a thought-provoking social and cultural analysis, the author of All About Love explores the world of masculinity and maleness to address some of men's most common concerns, including a fear of intimacy and the loss of their patriarchal place in society, arguing that an emotionally rewarding inner life holds the key to successful intimate relationships. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Men, Masculinity, and Love

The Will to Change

What is feminism? In this short, accessible primer, bell hooks explores the nature of feminism and its positive promise to eliminate sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. With her characteristic clarity and directness, hooks encourages readers to see how feminism can touch and change their lives—to see that feminism is for everybody.

Passionate Politics

Feminism Is for Everybody

Twenty-three essays ponder such topics as psychological trauma among African Americans, black anti-Semitism, and friendships between black women and white women. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo.

Ending Racism

Killing Rage

Stitching together girlhood memories with the finest threads of innocence, feminist intellectual bell hooks presents a powerfully intimate account of growing up in the South. A memoir of ideas and perceptions, Bone Black shows the unfolding of female creativity and one strong-spirited child’s journey toward becoming a writer. She learns early on the roles women and men play in society, as well as the emotional vulnerability of children. She sheds new light on a society that beholds the joys of marriage for men and condemns anything more than silence for women. In this world, too, black is a woman’s color—worn when earned—daughters and daddies are strangers under the same roof, and crying children are often given something to cry about. hooks finds good company in solitude, good company in books. She also discovers, in the motionless body of misunderstanding, that writing is her most vital breath.

Memories of Girlhood

Bone Black

Acclaimed visionary and intellectual bell hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in American culture with the bestselling All About Love: New Visions. Here she continues her love song to the nation in the groundbreaking and soul-stirring Salvation: Black People and Love. Whether talking about the legacy of slavery, relationships and marriage in Black life, the prose and poetry of our most revered artists and leaders, the liberation movements of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, or hip-hop and gangsta rap culture, hooks lets us know what love's got to do with it. Salvation is work that helps us heal -- and shows us how to create beloved American communities.

Black People and Love

Salvation

Belonging

A powerful memoir tells how one woman writer found her own voice while creating a personal love relationship based on feminist thinking and reflects on the impact of birth control and the women's movement on society. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

A Writing Life

Wounds of Passion

O que é o amor, afinal? Será esta uma pergunta tão subjetiva, tão opaca? Para bell hooks, quando pulverizamos seu significado, ficamos cada vez mais distantes de entendê-lo. Neste livro, primeiro volume de sua Trilogia do Amor, a autora procura elucidar o que é, de fato, o amor, seja nas relações familiares, românticas e de amizade ou na vivência religiosa. Na contramão do pensamento corrente, que tantas vezes entende o amor como sinal de fraqueza e irracionalidade, bell hooks defende que o amor é mais do que um sentimento — é uma ação capaz de transformar o niilismo, a ganância e a obsessão pelo poder que dominam nossa cultura. É através da construção de uma ética amorosa que seremos capazes de edificar uma sociedade verdadeiramente igualitária, fundamentada na justiça e no compromisso com o bem-estar coletivo. *** Em uma sociedade que considera falar de amor algo naïf, a proposta apresentada por bell hooks ao escrever sobre o tema é corajosa e desafiadora. E o desafio é colocarmos o amor na centralidade da vida. Ao afirmar que começou a pensar e a escrever sobre o amor quando encontrou "cinismo em lugar de esperança nas vozes de jovens e velhos", e que o cinismo é a maior barreira que pode existir diante do amor, porque ele intensifica nossas dúvidas e nos paralisa, bell hooks faz a defesa da prática transformadora do amor, que manda embora o medo e liberta nossa alma. Assim, ela nos convoca a regressar ao amor. Se o desamor é a ordem do dia no mundo contemporâneo, falar de amor pode ser revolucionário. — Silvane Silva, no Prefácio à edição brasileira

novas perspectivas

Tudo sobre o amor

What does it mean to call a place home? Who is allowed to become a member of a community? When can we say that we truly belong? These are some of the questions of place and belonging that renowned cultural critic bell hooks examines in her new book, Belonging: A Culture of Place. Traversing past and present, Belonging charts a cyclical journey in which hooks moves from place to place, from country to city and back again, only to end where she began--her old Kentucky home. hooks has written provocatively about race, gender, and class; and in this book she turns her attention to focus on issues of land and land ownership. Reflecting on the fact that 90% of all black people lived in the agrarian South before mass migration to northern cities in the early 1900s, she writes about black farmers, about black folks who have been committed both in the past and in the present to local food production, to being organic, and to finding solace in nature. Naturally, it would be impossible to contemplate these issues without thinking about the politics of race and class. Reflecting on the racism that continues to find expression in the world of real estate, she writes about segregation in housing and economic racialized zoning. In these critical essays, hooks finds surprising connections that link of the environment and sustainability to the politics of race and class that reach far beyond Kentucky. With characteristic insight and honesty, Belonging offers a remarkable vision of a world where all people--wherever they may call home--can live fully and well, where everyone can belong.

A Culture of Place

Wie wir lieben sollten - der feministische und antirassistische Klassiker erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung »Für viele ist Liebe nichts als ein statisches Wort - dabei könnten wir alle besser lieben, wenn wir es aktiv als Verb gebrauchen.« In ihrem provokativen und zutiefst persönlichen Werk entwirft die bekannte Wissenschaftlerin, Kulturkritikerin und Feministin eine neue Ethik für unsere Gesellschaft der Lieblosigkeit - eine polarisierte Gesellschaft, so bell hooks, der es nicht etwa an Romantik mangelt, sondern an Fürsorge, Anteilnahme und Gemeinschaft. An einem Leitbild für die Liebe. Wie können wir die Kluft überwinden, die uns trennt, und unser kulturelles Paradigma ändern, das Liebe in Sehnsucht und Sex erfüllt sieht? Wie können wir wieder echte Anteilnahme lernen und das gemeinschaftliche Leben in unseren Familien, Schulen oder Arbeitsplätzen festigen? Mit scharfem Verstand stellt sich bell hooks der schwierigen Frage, was Liebe bedeutet. Ihre Antworten sind immer bestechend und treffen bis ins Mark. Und am Ende erschließt sich eine neue Sicht auf die Liebe: einer angstbefreiten Liebe, die von sakraler Kraft getragen, erlösend und heilsam ist - nicht nur heilsam für Individuen, sondern für eine ganze, in sich gespaltene Nation. »Ein warmherziger Beweis, dass Liebe möglich ist, und ein Angriff auf unsere selbstbezogene und narzisstische Kultur.« New York Times Book Review »Jede Seite ist eine wahre Goldgrube an Weisheit, die Leser von ihren überbordenden Verlust- und Intimitätsängsten befreit ... hooks Blick auf die Liebe ist eine äußerst befriedigende, optimistische Alternative zu der Vielzahl an Büchern, die den Untergang der Liebe in unserer zynischen Zeit ausrufen.« Publishers Weekly »Ein graziös geschriebenes Buch ... Ihre Abhandlung liefert eine zutiefst persönliche und eine - für diese Zeit des hühnersuppigen Psychopalavers - ungeniert ehrliche Sichtweise auf Beziehungen.« Entertainment Weekly »Erfrischend einsichtsvolle Analysen, die Suchende dazu anleiten, der Bedeutung der Liebe, oder ihrer Bedeutungslosigkeit, auf den Grund zu gehen.« Kirkus Reviews »Ihre Sichtweise erscheint idealistisch ... ambitioniert. Dennoch berührt sie eine Sehnsucht in uns, die wir alle spüren und die hier so aufrichtig zum Ausdruck kommt ... hooks neue Sichtweisen erinnert uns daran, dass auch wir Teil einer liebenden Gemeinschaft sein können.« Philadelphia Inquirer »Schenken Sie bell hooks Ihre Aufmerksamkeit. Die amerikanische Autorin und Kulturkritikerin zu kennen, gehört bald zum guten Ton ... ihre Sprache inspiriert, provoziert und öffnet uns die Augen. Sie ist eine akademische Rebellin, eine brillante Feministin, deren messerscharfer Verstand tiefe Schnitte in den neusten akademischen Konventionen hinterlässt.« Boston Globe and Mail »Sie liefert eine erfrischend spirituelle Abhandlung, die sich von allen Schranken des Intellekts befreit und in die wilden Tiefen des Herzens vordringt.« Seattle Weekly »Alles über Liebe: Neue Sichtweisen verspricht eins der fesselndsten, lebensbejahendsten Lektüren des Jahres zu werden. Nähern Sie sich dem Buch mit einem offenem Geist und einem offenem Herzen, und machen Sie sich darauf gefasst, verändert zu werden.« Black Issues Book Review »Genau wie die Liebe ist auch dieses Buch es wert, sich ihm hinzugeben.« Toronto Sun

Alles über Liebe - Neue Sichtweisen

A classic work of feminist scholarship, Ain't I a Woman has become a must-read for all those interested in the nature of black womanhood. Examining the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, racism among feminists, and the black woman's involvement with feminism, hooks attempts to move us beyond racist and sexist assumptions. The result is nothing short of groundbreaking, giving this book a critical place on every feminist scholar's bookshelf.

Black Women and Feminism

Ain't I a Woman

Fifty poetic works by the renowned feminist theorist illuminate the human experience of love, in a volume that explores such topics as the link between seduction and surrender, the intensity of desire, and the anguish of death. 17,500 first printing.

When Angels Speak of Love

A series of essays from a professor of English and esteemed literary critic explores such issues as feminist writing, the author's personal publishing experiences, and the impact of success, class, gender, and race on a woman writer in today's world. 15,000 first printing.

The Writer at Work

Remembered Rapture

When Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center was first published in 1984, it was welcomed and praised by feminist thinkers who wanted a new vision. Even so, individual readers frequently found the theory "unsettling" or "provocative." Today, the blueprint for feminist movement presented in the book remains as provocative and relevant as ever. Written in hooks's characteristic direct style, Feminist Theory embodies the hope that feminists can find a common language to spread the word and create a mass, global feminist movement.

From Margin to Center

Feminist Theory

Teoria Feminista - Da Margem Ao Centro

Todo sobre el amor ofrece nuevas formas radicales de pensar sobre el amor al mostrar su interconexión en nuestra vida privada y pública. En once capítulos concisos, hooks explica cómo nuestras nociones cotidianas de lo que significa dar y recibir amor a menudo nos fallan, y cómo estos ideales se establecen en la primera infancia. Ofrece un replanteamiento del amor propio (sin narcisismo) que aporta paz y compasión a nuestra vida personal y profesional, y defiende la importancia del amor para poner fin a las luchas entre individuos, comunidades y sociedades. Pasando de lo cultural a lo íntimo, hooks explica la relación que existe entre el amor y la pérdida y desafía la noción predominante de que el amor romántico es el amor más importante de todos. Además, hooks denuncia el paradigma cultural de que el amor ideal está impregnado de sexo y deseo y propone un nuevo camino hacia el amor más pleno, compasivo y libre de vergüenza. Para aquellos que no conozcan la obra de bell hooks, Todo sobre el amor es una lectura esencial y un libro brillante que cambiará la forma de pensar el amor, la cultura y la sociedad.

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