'Communion' by bell hooks

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This paper takes a look at the way author bell hooks treats the issue of love in her book 'Communion', part of her trilogy on love in America. This paper discusses hooks ideas on how women can achieve freedom through love rather than seeing love as a subjugating force. It begins with the premise that women feel confused about love because of the way they are socialized in a patriarchal social structure.

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"In her book 'Communion: The Female Search for Love', bell hooks (who prefers that her name have no capitals) completes a trilogy on love in America, in this case discussing how women can achieve freedom through love rather than seeing love as a subjugating force. She begins with the premise that women feel confused about love because of the way they are socialized in a patriarchal social structure. Hooks notes that feminist writers have denigrated love and made it difficult for women to express their true feelings on the subject, which she says should be as important to women in middle age as it was when they were younger. She proposes to offer what is needed, namely "constructive visions of redemptive love" (15). "

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