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Communion: The Female Search for Love

by Bell Hooks

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A feminist examination of women’s relationship to love

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    New York Times bestseller

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A feminist examination of women’s relationship to love

In Communion, bell hooks examines how women’s ideas about love have been shaped by feminism, participation in the workforce, and self-help culture. Framed around love as a route toward freedom, the book considers its place across women’s lives and relationships—as mothers, daughters, friends, and lovers. It belongs to hooks’s “Love Song to the Nation” trilogy alongside All About Love and Salvation, extending that larger inquiry through a specifically female-centered lens. The emphasis is on claiming love as an active, ongoing part of daily life rather than treating it as a private or limited concern.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in feminist perspectives on love and relationships
  • Fans of bell hooks’s writing on love and culture
  • Readers exploring women’s roles across family, friendship, and romance

Themes

Love and freedomFeminismWomen’s relationshipsWork and self-help cultureDaily life

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Book overview

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER by the author of All About Love!

"When truth teller and careful writer bell hooks offers a book, I like to be standing at the bookshop when it opens." -Maya Angelou

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, and reveals how women of all ages can bring love into every aspect of their lives, for all the years of their lives.

Communion is the heart-to-heart talk every woman -- mother, daughter, friend, and lover -- needs to have.

 

  • Part of the groundbreaking "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy that includes All About Love and Salvation
  • A grounding and inspirational look at the role of love in our daily lives.
  • A must read for the modern woman by one of our most beloved authors and cultural critics.
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