All About Love

What it is about

In All About Love, bell hooks refuses to reduce love to romantic feeling. From justice, community, masculinity, honesty, and healing, she argues love is ethical practice: without care and responsibility, what she names as love is not present.

Questions it can answer

• What has to be present before something counts as love, not only romance?
• How do patriarchal habits rename control, endurance, or possession as love?
• How do self-love, community, and romantic love belong on one spectrum?

What you will not find

• A step-by-step couples workbook
• A digest of quantitative marriage studies
• Direct field notes on Chinese marriage pressure