bell hooks · Politics
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.
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…
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