bell hooks

A classic work of feminist scholarship, Ain't I a Woman has become a must-read for all those interested in the nature of black womanhood. Examining the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, racism among feminists, and the black woman's involvement with feminism, hooks attempts to move us beyond racist and sexist assumptions. The result is nothing short of groundbreaking, giving this book a critical place on every feminist scholar's bookshelf.

In this classic study, cultural critic bell hooks examines how black women, from the seventeenth century to the present day, were and are oppressed by both white men and black men and by white women. Illustrating her analysis with moving personal accounts, Ain't I a Woman is deeply critical of the racism inherent in the thought of many middle-class white feminists who have failed to address issues of race and class. While acknowledging the conflict of loyalty to race or sex is still a dilemma, hooks challenges the view that race and gender are two separate phenomena, insisting that the struggles to end racism and sexism are inextricably intertwined.

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Now available in a special hardcover Deluxe Collector’s Edition featuring beautiful new packaging, including cloth over board one-piece case with gifty trim, case stamping with red foil, red-colored endpapers, red sprayed edges, and sewn-in red ribbon bookmark! A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces.“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, renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft with lovelessness—not the lack of romance, but the lack of care, compassion, and unity. People are divided, she declares, by society’s failure to provide a model for learning to love. As bell hooks uses her incisive mind to explore the question “What is love?” her answers strike at both the mind and heart. 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 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, timely affirmation of just how profoundly her revelations can change hearts and minds for the better. “Each offering from bell hooks is a major event, as she has so much to give us.” — Maya Angelou

From the late feminist icon and New York Times bestselling author of All About Love, an in-depth look at one of the most critical issues facing Black Americans: a collective wounded self-esteem that has prevailed from slavery to the present day, with a new introduction by Tressie McMillan Cottom, author of Thick.Why do so many Black Americans—whether privileged or poor, urban or suburban, young or old—live in a state of chronic anxiety, fear, and shame? Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem breaks through collective denial and dares to imagine a more liberatory framework for understanding “self and identity in a world where loss is commonplace.” With visionary insight, hooks exposes the underlying reality that it has been difficult—if not impossible—for our nation to create a culture that promotes and sustains healthy self-esteem. Without self-esteem people begin to lose their sense of agency. They feel powerless. But it is never too late for any of us to acquire the healthy self-esteem that is needed for a fulfilling life. While originally written in 2002, hooks’ insights into the heart and soul of the Black American identity crisis continue to ring true. Through history, pop culture criticism, and hard-won wisdom, hooks writes about what it takes to heal the scars of the past, promote and maintain self-esteem, and lay down the roots for a truly grounded sense of community and collectivity. Moving beyond the ways historical racial justice movements have failed, hooks also identifies diverse psychological barriers and collective traumas keeping us from well-being. In highlighting the roles of desegregation, education, the absence of progressive parenting, spiritual crisis, or fundamental breakdowns in communication between Black women and men, bell hooks identifies mental health as a revolutionary frontier—and provides guidance for healing within the Black community.

Allt om kärlek av den amerikanska feministen bell hooks (1952-2021) är en banbrytande och tankeväckande bok som omdefinierar vad kärlek verkligen kan vara. Med skarpa insikter om patriarkatets inverkan på våra relationer och vårt sätt att älska, uppmanar hooks oss att omvandla kärlek från en passiv känsla till ett aktivt verktyg för social och politisk förändring. Hon visar hur kärlek kan genomsyra varje aspekt av vårt liv – från familj till arbetsplats – och hur den, när den behandlas som en handling, kan skapa verklig förändring.Genom att föra in kärlek som en drivande kraft i vårt samhälle, ger hooks oss en bok som inte bara utmanar våra tankar om kärlek, utan också om världen vi lever i. Ett måste för alla som söker en djupare förståelse av kärlekens kraft och dess potential att förändra världen.Allt om kärlek har blivit något av en kultbok i ämnet och erbjuder en glad och hoppfull syn på kärlekens omvandlande kraft.

Everyone needs to love and be loved - even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways that patriarchal culture keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving. In The Will to Change, bell hooks gets to the heart of the matter and shows men how to express the emotions that are a fundamental part of who they are—whatever their age, marital status, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. But toxic masculinity punishes those fundamental emotions, and it’s so deeply ingrained in our society that it’s hard for men to not comply—but hooks wants to help change that. With trademark candor and fierce intelligence, hooks addresses the most common concerns of men, such as fear of intimacy and loss of their patriarchal place in society, in new and challenging ways. She believes men can find the way to spiritual unity by getting back in touch with the emotionally open part of themselves—and lay claim to the rich and rewarding inner lives that have historically been the exclusive province of women. A brave and astonishing work, The Will to Change is designed to help men reclaim the best part of themselves.

Feminist icon bell hooks reminds us of the full spectrum of feeling we spend in love through her inspiring collection of love poetry, with a new introduction by Cole Arthur Riley, author of Black Liturgies.Written from the heart, When Angels Speak of Love is a book of fifty love poems by bell hooks, one our most beloved public intellectuals, and author of over twenty books, including the bestselling All About Love. Poem after poem, hooks challenges our views and experiences with love—tracing the links between seduction and surrender, the intensity of desire, and the anguish of death. “Love must clean house, choose memories to keep, and memories to let go,” she writes. These verses are expansive yet accessible—encompassing romantic love, to love of family, friends, or oneself. In any iteration, these poems remind us of both the beauty and possibility of love.

A rich, thought-provoking collection of essays, critiques and interviews from the influential author of Ain't I a Woman and All About Love‘There must be a revolution in the way we see, the way we look'In a collection of essays, critiques and interviews, bell hooks responds to the ongoing dialogues about producing, exhibiting and criticising art and aesthetics in a world increasingly concerned with identity politics. hooks shares her own experience of the transformative power of art whilst exploring topics ranging from art in education and the home to the politics of space and imagination as a revolutionary tool. She positions her writings on visual politics within the ever-present question of how art can be empowering within the Black community.Speaking with artists such as Carrie Mae Weems and Alison Saar, and examining the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Art on My Mind is a generous and expansive body of work that has become increasingly relevant since it was first published in 1995. Here is an essential tool for understanding the contemporary moment, and a fundamental text for any reader concerned with making and sustaining a democratic artistic culture.

Feminist icon bell hooks reminds us of the full spectrum of feeling we spend in love through her inspiring collection of love poetry, with a new introduction by Cole Arthur Riley, author of Black Liturgies.Written from the heart, When Angels Speak of Love is a book of fifty love poems by bell hooks, one our most beloved public intellectuals, and author of over twenty books, including the bestselling All About Love. Poem after poem, hooks challenges our views and experiences with love--tracing the links between seduction and surrender, the intensity of desire, and the anguish of death. "Love must clean house, choose memories to keep, and memories to let go," she writes. These verses are expansive yet accessible--encompassing romantic love, to love of family, friends, or oneself. In any iteration, these poems remind us of both the beauty and possibility of love.

One of bell hooks' foundational works introduced to the UK for the first time.'With the emotion of poetry, the narrative of a novel, and the truth of experience, bell hooks weaves a girlhood memoir you won't be able to put down-or forget. Bone Black takes us into the cave of self-creation' Gloria SteinemStitching 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.

bell hooks (1952-2021) är en amerikansk författare, feminist och politisk aktivist. Hennes kritiska studier av kön, etnicitet, klass och sexualitet har haft enorm betydelse för en bredare förståelse av feminism och utvecklandet av intersektionalitetsperspektivet. Den feministiska klassikern Är inte jag en kvinna? är en skarp uppgörelse med bilden av och positionen för den svarta kvinnan i USA och belyser hur det psykiska, fysiska och sexuella våld som svarta kvinnor utsattes för under slaveriet har följt med sedan dess. Genomgående i hooks argumentation är att etnicitet och klass måste räknas in när förtrycket mot kvinnor ska bekämpas.

I en tid hvor kærligheden mest optræder som lyserøde fantasier i populærkulturen, falder Alt om kærlighed på et tørt sted. Bogen udgår fra den antagelse at vi lever i et kærlighedsløst samfund hvor omsorg, medfølelse og fællesskab glimrer ved deres fravær, og er erstattet med et materialistisk begær efter forbrug. I 13 velskrevne kapitler undersøger bell hooks sin egen ’kærlighedshistorie’ og blotlægger med kritisk skarphed kulturens manglende evne til at give os en brugbar model for at lære at elske. Hun udvikler en ny kærlighedens etik der kan hele os som individer og som samfund. Alt om kærlighed er en personlig, håbefuld og inspirerende bog, der tilbyder en ny måde at tænke over kærligheden på. "Menneskekærlig, frisættende og solidarisk funderet (...). En klassiker." - Politiken, 5 hjerter "Ufatteligt visionær (...) Skal du blot læse én eneste bog i år, så lad det blive bell hooks' kærlighedshistorie." - Julie Gufler, Frihedsbrevet"Jeg knuselsker bell hooks' ”Alt om kærlighed”. (...) Det er en af de bøger, jeg har læst i mit liv, som har været allermest meningsfuld for mig." - Søndag"Balancerer perfekt mellem manifest og selvhjælpsbog." - POV

Hvem er feminismen for, og hvem definerer feminismens kampe? I denne banebrydende klassiker fra 1984 etablerer bell hooks en feminisme, der også inkluderer dem, som lever i samfundets margin. For hooks må feminisme rumme forskelle og uenigheder, og – ikke mindst – forene kvinder såvel som mænd i et fælles opgør med en kapitalistisk og patriarkalsk kultur. bell hooks (1952-2021) var forfatter, politisk aktivist og underviser. Med bøger som All about love, Ain’t I a Woman? og Feministisk teori – fra margin til centrum står hun som en af vor tids mest indflydelsesrige feministiske tænkere. Bogen er en del af serien Feministisk bibliotek, der samler fire af de mest markante feministiske stemmer fra de sidste 100 år og introducerer de vigtigste diskussioner om forholdet mellem køn, magt og historie.