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Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The word 'love' is most often defined as a noun, yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb,\" writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft with lovelessness--not the lack of romance, but the lack of care, compassion, and unity. People are divided, she declares, by society's failure to provide a model for learning to love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs bell hooks uses her incisive mind to explore the question \"What is love?\" her answers strike at both the mind and heart. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for individuals and for a nation. 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Whether talking about the legacy of slavery, relationships and marriage in Black life, the prose and poetry of Martin Luther King, Jr., James Baldwin, and Maya Angelou, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombining the passionate politics of W.E.B. DuBois with fresh, contemporary insights, hooks brilliantly offers new visions that will heal our nation's wounds from a culture of lovelessness. Her writings on love and its impact on race, class, family, history, and popular culture will help us heal and create beloved American communities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43201384612018,"sku":"9780060959494","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780060959494.jpg?v=1786011315"},{"product_id":"9780349704968","title":"Bone Black","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of bell hooks' foundational works introduced to the UK for the first time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'With the emotion of poetry, the narrative of a novel, and the truth of experience, bell hooks weaves \u003cb\u003ea girlhood memoir you won't be able to put down―or forget\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003ci\u003eBone Black \u003c\/i\u003etakes us into the cave of self-creation' Gloria Steinem\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStitching together the threads of her girlhood memories, bell hooks shows us one strong-spirited child's journey toward becoming the pioneering writer we know. 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Without self-esteem people begin to lose their sense of agency. They feel powerless. But it is never too late for any of us to acquire the healthy self-esteem that is needed for a fulfilling life.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWhile originally written in 2002, hooks’ insights into the heart and soul of the Black American identity crisis continue to ring true. Through history, pop culture criticism, and hard-won wisdom, hooks writes about what it takes to heal the scars of the past, promote and maintain self-esteem, and lay down the roots for a truly grounded sense of community and collectivity.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eMoving beyond the ways historical racial justice movements have failed, hooks also identifies diverse psychological barriers and collective traumas keeping us from well-being. 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Poem after poem, hooks challenges our views and experiences with love—tracing the links between seduction and surrender, the intensity of desire, and the anguish of death. “Love must clean house, choose memories to keep, and memories to let go,” she writes. These verses are expansive yet accessible—encompassing romantic love, to love of family, friends, or oneself. In any iteration, these poems remind us of both the beauty and possibility of love.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56303672951157,"sku":"9781668099865","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781668099865_a49c32d1-a319-4950-97da-0a0b6814375b.jpg?v=1786024226"},{"product_id":"9781685890797","title":"bell hooks: The Last Interview","description":"bell hooks was a prolific, trailblazing author, feminist, social activist, cultural critic, and professor. 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This award-winning book, with its myriad of faces, introduces a strong message of loving yourself and others that will appeal to parents of our youngest readers.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56312475517301,"sku":"9781484799239","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781484799239_4c26b8ff-543a-41c3-ab08-fdc777ec696e.jpg?v=1786021917"},{"product_id":"aint-i-a-woman","title":"Ain′t I a Woman","description":"In this classic study, cultural critic bell hooks examines how black women, from the seventeenth century to the present day, were and are oppressed by both white men and black men and by white women. Illustrating her analysis with moving personal accounts, Ain't I a Woman is deeply critical of the racism inherent in the thought of many middle-class white feminists who have failed to address issues of race and class. 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