Communion : the female search for love
Edition
First Perennial edition.
Publication Information
New York : W. Morrow, ©2003.
Physical Description
xxi, 244 pages ; 22 cm
Summary
"Intimate, revealing, provocative, Communion challenges every female to courageously claim the search for love as the heroic journey we must all choose to be truly free. In Communion, hooks, answers all of our questions about the place of love in a woman's life. With her trademark commanding and lucid language, hooks explores the ways ideas about women and love were changed by feminist movement, by women's full participation in the workforce, and by the culture of self-help. Her penetrating words silence our fears about becoming women who love too much, yet they also challenge us. Her words stir us to devote as much of ourselves to love, to loving our partners, our bodies, our pasts, our parents, as we do our careers and our independence."--Jacket.
Contents
- The soul seeks communion
- Aging to love, loving to age
- Love's proper place
- Looking for love, finding freedom
- Finding balance : work and love
- Gaining powers, losing love
- Women who fail at loving
- Choosing and learning to love
- Grow into a woman's body and love it
- Sisterhood : love and solidarity
- Our right to love
- The search for men who love
- Finding a man to love
- For women only : lesbian love
- Lasting love : romantic friendships
- Witness to love : between generations
- Blissed out : loving communion.