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