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

by bell hooks

femaleness is despised? Unable to change the fact of

What’s does she mean by femaleness; I think femininity(fax)

Patriarchy has always seen love as women’s work, degraded and devalued labor.

We begin to see clearly how much love matters, not the old patriarchal versions of “love” but a deeper understanding of love as a transformational force demanding of each individual accountability and responsibility for nurturing our spiritual growth.

also transformational in order to heal

can find freedom without first finding her way to love.

Bars

locate ourselves in community, to make our survival a shared effort,

While romantic love is a crucial part of this journey, it is no longer deemed all that matters; rather, it is an aspect of our overall work to create loving bonds, circles of love that nurture and sustain collective female well-being.

Bars

Communion lets us hear the knowledge of women over thirty and beyond who as seekers on love’s path discovered along the way new visions, healing insights, and remembered rapture.

lacking. Women, along with the culture as a whole, need constructive visions of redemptive love. We need to return to love and proclaim its transformative power.

Come back to this redemptive love

something we can blame on men. More often than not, females are the body fascists who police themselves and other females with a brutal harshness that knows no bounds. Before many of us

how men saw us, hard and brutal body shaming began in our families. These crimes against our female body image were most often perpetrated by mothers, grandmothers, sisters, and other female relatives. Despite his patriarchal power, in my home my father rarely commented on the appearance of any of his six daughters. It was our mom who told us how we should look, who berated us if we