bell hooks · Politics

A Love Ethic: Love as the Practice of Freedom

In <em>All About Love</em> (2000) and <em>The Will to Change</em> (2004), hooks argued that love is not a feeling but a practice - an act of will opposed to domination - and that patriarchy wounds men too, demanding they cut off their own capacity to feel and to love.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that hooks defined love as an act of will and a practice, not a feeling; argued there can be no love without justice because love and domination are opposites; and showed in The Will to Change that patriarchy wounds men by demanding they suppress emotion. Explain how love, for hooks, becomes a political pr…

Leads to Frederick Douglass.

Begin this lesson →
← All lessons on bell hooks

epoché — a humanities education that remembers you.