About love

Among bell hooks' most beloved and widely read books, About of love is a singular text. With his usual insight and talents as a popularizer, the Afrofeminist author tackles a rarely encountered theme addressed head-on in political theory. Defining love as an act and not as a feeling, bell hooks dismantles all the obstacles that culture patriarchal opposes healthy loving relationships, and envisions an art of loving which is not limited to the thrill of attraction or simple tenderness. Using moral philosophy as well as psychology, she attacks the mocking cynicism that surrounds discussions about love, and attaches itself to to restore all its nobility to the possibility of love, in a perspective feminist.