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Communion

The Female Search for Love
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In Communion by bell hooks, the author delves into the ongoing journey of women seeking to forge meaningful self-identities. Addressing the intersections of love, work, and life purpose, bell hooks examines how women can reclaim autonomy and authenticity in a world that often marginalises their experiences. The book offers a profound narrative on self-discovery and empowerment.
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This book may appeal to you if you are interested in exploring themes of love and spirituality through the lens of feminism. The author, known for her insight and compassion, delves into the complexities of human connection, offering profound reflections that can resonate deeply with readers seeking to understand the intersection of society, culture, and personal growth.

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Communion

In the final book of her love trilogy that began with "all about love" and "salvation, " bell hooks explores the ways ideas about women and love were changed by the feminist movement, by women's full participation in the workforce, by the culture of self-help, and by popular media forces such as television and movies.

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“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 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 her trademark commanding and lucid language, hooks explores the ways ideas about women and love were changed by the feminist movement, by women's full participation in the workforce, and by the culture of self-help, and reveals how women of all ages can bring love into every aspect of their lives, for all the years of their lives.

Communion is the heart-to-heart talk every woman — mother, daughter, friend, and lover — needs to have.

Series: Love Song to the Nation

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Communion by bell hooks is hailed as a masterful and thoughtful exploration of love, regarded as both a profound and practical guide to life. It serves as a compelling conclusion to hooks' influential discussions on love within American culture.

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ISBN: 9780060938291

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 June 2016

Country: United States

Imprint: William Morrow Paperbacks

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 17.0mm

Width: 135.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 200g

Pages: 272

About the Author

Bell Hooks is a cultural critic, feminist theorist, and writer. Celebrated as one of our nation's leading public intellectual by The Atlantic Monthly, as well as one of Utne Reader's "100 Visionaries Who Could Change Your Life," she is a charismatic speaker who divides her time among teaching, writing, and lecturing around the world. Previously a professor in the English departments at Yale University and Oberlin College, hooks is the author of more than 17 books, including All About Love: New Visions; RememberedRapture: The Writer at Work; Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life; Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood; Killing Rage: Ending Racism; Art on My Mind: Visual Politics; and Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life. She lives in New York City.

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