All about Love: Love Song to the Nation Book 1

All About Love: New Visions (2000) is a book of essays by acclaimed American author and feminist scholar, bell hooks (hooks intentionally spelled her name with lowercase letters, which is recreated throughout this guide). hooks is best known for her feminist writings, many of which examine themes of race, class, gender, sexuality, and the intersections between these concepts. She first rose to literary prominence in 1981 with the publication of her first book of nonfiction, Ain’t I a Woman?, an exploration of Black womanhood in America.

hooks describes All About Love as a roadmap for readers that “tells us how to return to love” (xxix). Concerned about contemporary notions of love, hooks’s essays present “new ways to think about the art of loving, offering a hopeful, joyous vision of love’s transformative power” (xxix). Throughout the book, hooks includes anecdotes about her personal journey toward understanding and manifesting love while using the research of other scholars to support her theories. hooks remains steadfast in her belief in the power of love and, through her writing, invites readers to join her in the active, mindful pursuit of love.

Plot Summary

In the Preface to All About Love, hooks reflects on her complicated history with love and the overwhelming, and at times debilitating, grief caused by the

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