Communion: The Female Search for Love

by bell hooks

Book Overview

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

Renowned 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060938293
• ISBN13: 9780060938291
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Self love radiating out to others

Simply wonderful. Covers not only romantic, familial, and friendly relationships but focuses on the heart of the matter: women loving and respecting ourselves. Choosing appropriate relationships and nurturing them is only one part of that more important aim. bell hooks urges us to focus on being complete within ourselves - difficult for all women in our culture, particularly so for women of color.Her observations are wise. Her grasp of history is absolute. Her ideas stimulate intelligent and loving thought, conversation, and action. Read this book.

Impressive!

I have to admit that I was both surprised and pleased by this body of work. This book is the best out of the love trilogy. She challenges women to dare to love beyond the romantic/sex paradigm. Also, she is brutally honest about how hard it is to find a partner who is truly unshackled from the chains of domination. Kudos to bell for writing on a very complicated topic: love.

A must read for all women!

What a incredible treasure this book is. All women on the path to self-discovery, and in search for their women-spirit should read this! Truly brilliant.

wise, humane, and well worth reading.

I have read journal articles by bell hooks, but this is the first book I have read of hers. It won't be my last book by her.Communion: The Female Search for Love is part memoir, part challenge, and very thoughtprovoking.One aspect I liked best was her debunking of the myth of "women who love too much." Another center of focus is the effect of gainful employment on the perceptions of love.Her language is direct and clear, but not simplistic.This is a very good book, and one that I hope will be widely read and discussed.Even though her subtitle is "The Female Search for Love," men can learn from this worthwhile book, if they have the courage to read it.This might be an excellent choice for a book group.