![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One thing that l have felt strongly over the years is that while I have seen relationships between heterosexual men and women change a lot, what I often see is that if the man assumes a more nurturing, more emotional and giving position, the woman is often cold and aloof and ungiving. We caught up with her by phone to talk about self-help books, the penis, Nurse Betty-and, of course, the thoughts of love that have brought a different kind of passion to her work. ![]() One of her two books out this fall is Feminism Is for Everybody, a primer on feminism that, with chapter headings like “Liberating Marriage and Partnership” and “Total Bliss,” often reads more like a wish list of fertile feminist possibility. Not that the incredibly prolific hooks would stop there she continues to add to her list of classic feminist texts at a brisk pace. Next winter’s Salvation: Black People in Love will no doubt pick up where All About Love left off (and following that will come her second children’s book, Homemade Love). Last winter’s All About Love explored romantic love, spiritual love, family love, and most of all profoundly politicized love. Though bell hooks may be one of feminism’s sharpest thinkers and fiercest critics of white supremacist capitalist patriarchy (a phrase that pops up often in her work), her favorite topic these days, in conversation and in writing, is love. ![]()
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