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Communion: The Female Search for Love
Communion The Female Search for Love
Author: 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 ...  more »Intimate, revealing, provocative, Communion challenges every female to courageously claim the search for love as the heroic journey we must all chose to be truly free. In Communion, hooks, one of our most revered and acute social critics, answers all our questions about the place of love in a woman's life. In her trademark commanding and lucid language, hooks explores the ways ideas about women and love were changed by feminist movement, by our full participation in the workforce, and by the culture of self-help. Her penetrating words silence our fears about becoming women who love too much, yet they also challenge us. Her words stir us to devote as much of ourselves to love, to loving our partners, our bodies, our pasts, our parents, as we do our careers and our independence. In chapters as personal and prescriptive as bell is passionate and provoking, Communion guides us toward the path that leads to true fulfillment. This work exposes our fears, hopes, and longing, all the while addressing the powerful insight that women who cannot love can never really grow up. In Communion, hooks celebrates the experiences of women over thirty, shares collective wisdom, and bestows on us the lessons learned as we practice the art of loving. Communion is the heart-to-heart talk every woman needs to have. And this conversation guides us--mothers, daughters, friends, and lovers -- on one of our most life-affirming journeys.
ISBN-13: 9780066214429
ISBN-10: 0066214424
Publication Date: 2/1/2002
Pages: 272
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3.8 stars, based on 4 ratings
Publisher: William Morrow
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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reviewed Communion: The Female Search for Love on + 5 more book reviews
The first half of this book is stark genius and remarkable. Worth reading. The second half I lost her threads, she has a rambling quality that I found distracting.
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This is a fantastic read for any feminist. Meant for a mature audience, I found it inspiring. It was like sitting at the feet of an educated wise aunt while she does your hair: warm and challenging.


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