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

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It just seems…like a huge oversight, and kind of sloppy, to be writing hundreds of pages on love without ever concretely defining what it means to her. ama kitapta kendisinin de bahsettiği " güçlü görünmek adına çok seviyor görünmemek" "sevgisiz de yaşanır diyen" kadın profilinin bu kadar sık göründüğünü, çoğunluğumuz için bunun mesele olduğundan haberdar değildim ( bir uzaylı kendim sanıyordum). It is exhilarating to be entering the second half of my life knowing how to love and be loved, and being able to distinguish love from desire. It’s not until page 88 that she tells us what she thinks love is (mostly paraphrasing someone else), and then she’s glad to leave it at one sentence, and none of the components (such as respect, trust, responsibility, knowledge) are elaborated on. Ein möglicher Gedanke, weshalb ich mich mit einigen Aussagen nicht so recht identifizieren konnte könnte sein, dass das Original bereits 2002 erschienen ist und aufgrund dessen eventuell die eine oder andere Aussage überholt ist.

It didn't give me the same feeling of power/energy to love like All About Love did—what were my illusions? I read another review about Communion on here and the reviewer mentioned that this book was full of generalizations. I’m so glad that, in my opinion, there’s more discourse about elevating friendship in society now, from explicitly naming the oppressive force of amatonormativity to openly discussing relationship anarchy. Idea of a "coming out process" to yourself for realizing/believing/identifying yourself as straight, sharing same process as those who had to consciously come out as queer (p. I feel like a clown saying this book changed my life because it’s 20 years old and bell hooks is a well known author, but these words have completely changed my perspective on love.

I liked this book even though I don’t think it was as groundbreaking or tightly argued as her books The Will to Change or All About Love. In chapter three, Looking for love, finding freedom, she makes a case that “ men who oppressed women did not do so because they acted simply from the space of free will; but they were in their own way agents of a system they had not put in place. I would def recommend people read this but I’m excited to read All About Love bc I think that’s the one everyone really loves. Her guileless defiance in exploring her identity through books; “ I could and would have it all: my ideas, books, writing and love. But it's about "romantic friendships" with other women, but it'd be really interesting to read about having this with men.

i just loved how she talk about the importance of mutual love built on respect, responsibility, accountability, etc. It explores how we are surrounded societally by ideas of love based on saving and romantic fantasies, as well as narratives of how to manage men (hooks describes popular books about relationships as examples), and be in patriarchal relationships, but we are not taught how to challenge patriarchy and how to transform the whole system. No matter how sweet the love between two people, we ask too much if we demand that this relationship and this one other person be 'everything.elinize ağır, teorik, terimler içeren, anlamaya çalışırken yorulacağınız bir kitap almıyorsunuz bence. So it does not matter that feminist movement has its faults -- it helped everyone let these scripts go.