Communion: The Female Search for Love: 2 (Love Song to the Nation, 2)

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Más una demostración de las fijaciones y los problemas mentales de la autora que un verdadero tratado feminista. Por tanto, aconsejable solamente para mujeres que quieran encontrar razones para odiar a los hombres. Amor que la mayoría de veces se confunde con sexo y más exactamente con una lucha por el poder en el terreno sexual. Anti-patriarchal thinking, which assumes that both women and men are equally capable of learning how to love, is the only foundation on which to construct sustained, meaningful, mutual love. I appreciate how she may not be able to speak on that, but an acknowledgement of her limitations would have been prudent, I think.

I found again and again that if I talked openly about the importance of giving and receiving love in my life, especially about my desire to have a partner, there feelings were ridiculed or mocked. Her writing has introduced me to the idea of non-sexual romantic relationships and it just all makes sense, like, all of it. hooks agrees with Fromm that love is an art form, "an action informed by care, respect, knowledge, and responsibility. Es handelt von Gleichberechtigung und Vorstellungen, die längst überholt sind und ganz wichtig, von Selbstliebe.Another example: “Before it was cool to simply announce one’s feminism…” Um, bell, it’s still not “cool” to “announce one’s feminism. Ich bin recht unvoreingenommen an dieses Buch gegangen, da es für mich das erste Buch von bell hooks war. So it does not matter that feminist movement has its faults -- it helped everyone let these scripts go. Yakın zamana kadar kim olduğumuzu ve erkekler kadar iyi olabileceğimizi anlatmaya çalışırken onların bize verdikleri kalıplara uymaya çalıştık.

being “great point / good insight”) which is a pretty high rate for a book that I expected to love and overall think is really worthwhile.A woman cannot truly love a man and expect such affection from him unless she first appreciates herself. While I didn’t mind that rhetorical technique when she used it either more accurately or more sparingly in her other books, in Communion it stood out to me more in a negative way, perhaps because I also found that her points blurred together and were a little discursive within chapters at times. While I’m sure that’s often true on an individual level, she doesn’t mention how gay men can also be cruelly (or unintentionally) misogynistic and sexist just like everyone else in the world; she seems to be under the impression that they are exempt from that.