Stitching together the threads of her girlhood memories, bell hooks shows us one strong-spirited child's journey toward becoming the pioneering writer we know.Along the way, hooks sheds light on the vulnerability of children, the special unfurling of female creativity and the imbalance of a society that confers marriage's joys upon men and its silences on women. In a world where daughters and fathers are strangers under the same roof, and crying children are often given something to cry about, hooks uncovers the solace to be found in solitude, the comfort to be had in the good company of books. Bone Black allows us to bear witness to the awakening of a legendary author's awareness that writing is her most vital breath.

Feminismus je pro všechny je důležitou knihou zabývající se feminismem. Je koncipována jako příručka - krátký, snadno stravitelný text, ve kterém se autorka snaží přiblížit, proč je feminismus důležitý a proč je celospolečensky přínosný. Bell hooks (1952-2021) byla feministická teoretička a kulturní kritička afroamerického původu, jejíž třídní, rasová i genderová zkušenost výrazně vstoupily do způsobu jejího chápání světa i její pozdější tvorby. Užíváním pseudonymu s malými iniciály dávala bell hooks najevo, že stěžejní pro ni není autorská osobnost, ale samotné dílo a jeho poselství.

"The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet...we would all love better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, the renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist skewers our view of love as romance. In its place she offers a proactive new ethic for a people and a society bereft with lovelessness. As bell hooks uses her incisive mind and razor-sharp pen to explore the question "What is love?" her answers strike at both the mind and heart. In thirteen concise chapters, hooks examines her own search for emotional connection and society's failure to provide a model for learning to love. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for the individuals and for a nation. The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the "100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life." All About Love is a powerful affirmation of just how profoundly she can.

“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.

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Bell Hooks has been called one of America''s leading public intellectuals. Created in response to her in-depth discussions with men The Will to Change challenges men to reclaim the sensitivity and love that today''s embattled masculinity has forsaken. With her trademark candour and fierce intelligence, Hooks answers the most common concerns of men - from fears of intimacy to the loss of their patriarchal place in society. The result is a book that can help men to feel, to need and to desire openly - qualities that will allow them to thrive as they never have before.

A concise argument for the enduring importance of the feminist movement today by one of the world's leading feminist writers

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