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Title: Communion : The Female Search for Love by bell hooks ISBN: 0-06-093829-3 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 24 December, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.45 (11 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Definitely 3rd in the Love Trilogy
Comment: bell hooks blew me away with All About Love and Salvation. Communion, however, left me wanting more. Although it was written in the typical bell hooks fashion -- I love her writing style, Communion didn't have the same passion, spirit and overall power that the previous two books had. I did like the way she weaved her own self into the topic. By doing so, she makes the reader feel closer to her and helps them relate better to their own search for love.
Rating: 3
Summary: Love from a feminist perspective
Comment: Communion is a discussion and legitimization of the pursuit of love from a mid-life feminist perspective. Hooks believes that the desire to understand how love works is a serious, important, and ultimately joyful life-work activity that should be studied and taught. The big question she attempts to answer is how to "find, keep, and make love despite the power of patriarchy."
The best part of this book is that Hooks always tells the truth as she sees it. There is no glossing over or contriving to make a point. Sometimes her language is sexually explicit and blunt. She explains love from the perspective of her own personal life experience and through intelligent observation and study of our culture and gender practices. The impact of the feminist movement is woven through her assessment. Unlike many other feminists, however, Hook's voice is not militant.
There is only one caution. The ever-present temptation for Hooks and for all of us is to find excuses why we cannot find love or be loving. From the ego's perspective, there is always a so-called justifiable reason for the rejection of another. In this case, the justifiable reason is patriarchy. However, unconditional love means that we undo the hate inour minds and extend love no matter what distressing disguise is presented to us.
Rating: 1
Summary: Tries, but terribly misguided
Comment: I was a bit dismayed with Hook's book because in reality it just reiterates the cliche'd notions we all have about gender and gender relationships. Bell attempts to influence readers to adopt miandrists beliefs, albeit she does so subtly. Males do have emotions although perhaps we often don't see that, and Hook's insensitivity to the male gender is subtle, but still ubiquidous throughout the book. I cannot reccomend this book because like many modern works that attempt to persuade readers to "follow the inner self" this work actually harbors hate
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Title: All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks ISBN: 0060959479 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 09 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope by Bell Hooks ISBN: 0415968186 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Salvation: Black People and Love by bell hooks ISBN: 0060959495 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 18 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks ISBN: 0896086283 Publisher: South End Press Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Will to Change : Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks ISBN: 0743456076 Publisher: Atria Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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