Communion: The Female Search for Love (Love Song to the Nation, 2)

When truth teller and careful writer bell hooks offers a book, I like to be standing at the bookshop when it opens. Maya AngelouRenowned visionary bell hooks explored the meaning of love in American culture with the critically acclaimed bestseller 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 Female Search for Love.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 a patriarchal culture. In her trademark commanding and lucid language, hooks explores the ways ideas about women and love were changed by the feminist movement, by womens full participation in the workforce, and by the culture of selfhelp, and reveals how women of all ages can achieve emotional growth and bring love into every aspect of their lives, for all the years of their lives.Communion is the hearttoheart talk every woman mother, daughter, friend, and lover needs to have.This landmark book is a profound exploration of womens liberation and the path to love, offering a vision for: Feminist Theory on Love: Discover how the feminist movement forever changed our ideas about love, partnership, and power, challenging the ideology of domination. The Path to SelfLove: Understand why claiming the search for love is a heroic journey, and how a womans freedom is tied to her capacity for selfacceptance. Sisterhood and Solidarity: A hearttoheart talk for every mother, daughter, friend, and lover on building circles of love that nurture and sustain collective female wellbeing. Finding Lasting Love: Receive guidance for women of all ages on bringing authentic love into every aspect of their lives, for all the years of their lives.