A woman who does not learn how first to fulfill her psychological needs for acceptance will always operate from a space of lack. I'm still going to give this a decent rating, though, because I feel like hooks made a lot of good points.

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. Definitely posed some ideas that I haven't thought of before, and some that I've been aware of for quite some time--but this is a testament to what hooks states, in that the younger generation has had the benefit of the feminist movement when it comes to love and finding those who love in a liberated manner.She praises lesbian relationships as this wonderful thing that solves tons of problems in the love arena, as if they are inherently healthier or better than heterosexual relationships without really acknowledging that gay people can form terribly abusive relationships as well. To solve the problem of _______________, we have to critique sexist thinking, militantly oppose it, and simultaneously create new images, new ways of seeing ourselves" (p. They were women who saw menopause as a rite of passage in which they would move from slavery to freedom. Hooks presents the idea of love being an individualized feature that exudes out only when there is overflow. being “great point / good insight”) which is a pretty high rate for a book that I expected to love and overall think is really worthwhile.

Más una demostración de las fijaciones y los problemas mentales de la autora que un verdadero tratado feminista. I want to be clear that although I've talked at length about things I perceived as weaknesses, there was actually more that I did like about it.

This one examines love from a female perspective, delving deeply into feminist theory, where feminism both succeeded and failed, and the utter importance of learning how to love for everyone (not just women). We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Communion is the heart-to-heart talk every woman -- mother, daughter, friend, and lover -- needs to have.

She discusses attitudes like "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus," their roots in patriarchy, and the unfairness of both sides of the coin: teaching women that love and nurturing are their realm and they should accept that men won't get it, and teaching men that strength and silence and dominance are their realm and showing emotion or communicating on a deeper level are emasculating. All that will be achieved is a reversal of roles, rather than the emotional equality achieved through the act of loving that every person desires. Through hooks, I have gained more insight into the areas of conflict present in my understanding of love and my relationship towards love.Another great wisdom gift that women offer to those who have not yet discovered its pleasures is the wisdom that it is better to know the joy of dancing in a circle of love than to dance alone. I don't know a whole lot about feminist theory, but what I learned about it here I found fascinating. bell hooks focuses her sights on the patriarchy, both male patriarchs and the female patriarchs who have learned to support the patriarchy in all ways. A woman who does not learn how first to fulfill her psychological needs for acceptance will operate from a place of lack. This misinformation about the nature of love has helped to further the politics of domination, particularly male domination of women.