All About Love

Summary

The first book in bell hooks’s trilogy on love, and a plain-spoken argument that we’ve misunderstood the word. For hooks, love isn’t romance, or a feeling that befalls us, but something we do: a practice of care, commitment, trust and respect that can be learned. A culture short on it, she argues, slides towards domination.

Rationale

hooks treats love as we’ve come to treat any disposition: less a belief held than a habit practised, built through what we repeatedly do with and for each other.