Manchester Socialist Feminist Book Club: All About Love by bell hook

Join our Manchester Socialist Feminist Book Club, hosted by Workers' Liberty.

For our February session, we’ll be reading All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks — a bold, intimate exploration of what love means in modern society. And really, what could be more fitting for a February gathering?

If you can read the whole book, wonderful. If not, no pressure — dip into the chapters that resonate most with you.

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FROM THE BLURB: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.

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