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

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I admit that only once I started focusing on prioritizing and improving myself did I attract the right person into my life. Targeted towards women in midlife, I think this book is a very important read for young women in their 20’s and 30’s to start doing the work of self-love now with wisdom from women in midlife. at the same time, let's also rejoice that intersectional feminist thought has moved beyond the gender binary and heteronormative language that makes this book feel so dated. An engrossing read, although its resonance suffered since I was clearly not the target audience (since I am not a middle-aged woman at the turn of the millennium). Her words stir us to devote as much of ourselves to love, to loving our partners, our bodies, our pasts, our parents, as we do our careers and our independence.

I appreciate how she may not be able to speak on that, but an acknowledgement of her limitations would have been prudent, I think. I would def recommend people read this but I’m excited to read All About Love bc I think that’s the one everyone really loves.Reading this felt like a conversation with an older sister/ maternal figure about love and life with no barrier and complete vulnerability. hooks says that it is not possible to have love and domination at the same time; we only really love in relationships that honor freedom and equality. It is exhilarating to be entering the second half of my life knowing how to love and be loved, and being able to distinguish love from desire.

It gave room for ebullient reading and the possibility to weave in vigorous gender and feminist arguments from different acclaimed authors, some of which I have cited above. Communion is the heart-to-heart talk every woman -- mother, daughter, friend, and lover -- needs to have. In reality, many people in marriages and longtime partnerships are not sexual; behind closed doors their relationships may be similar to, if not the same as, romantic friendships. Más una demostración de las fijaciones y los problemas mentales de la autora que un verdadero tratado feminista. They were women who saw menopause as a rite of passage in which they would move from slavery to freedom.She said that she wrote this book for women in their 40s, but that really deep down she wishes that younger women would make an audience of this book to change the narrative sooner. Lesbianism, Hook claims, is a possible way to obtain healthy love and, hence, find one’s actual being. I'm a big proponent of BDSM, and often find myself annoyed at the negative tone almost everything I read takes toward it. To solve the problem of _______________, we have to critique sexist thinking, militantly oppose it, and simultaneously create new images, new ways of seeing ourselves" (p. Many single heterosexual women spend their time in relationships with men in which they feel unloved and unfulfilled, only to experience a moment of critical awakening in midlife, when they begin to do the work of self-love.

I definitely want to visit it again when I’m older, as the target audience seems to be older women/mothers (lots of reflections on the beauty of aging and menopause). I found again and again that if I talked openly about the importance of giving and receiving love in my life, especially about my desire to have a partner, there feelings were ridiculed or mocked. Powerful women reveal psychological wholeness when we refuse to embrace any type of thinking that suggests we should or must choose success over love. Significantly, through Hooks writing, where she mirrors in on her family structure, one can draw parallels between the gender roles in her family and what is evident in a traditional family setting within Nigeria. It is a testament to the learned ignorance of political reality that so many females cannot accept that patriarchy requires of men cruelty to women, that the will to do violence defines heterosexual, patriarchal masculinity.Leerlo me dio fuerza para ver y romper cualquier mecanismo de dominación que esté en la base de mis relaciones ya sean familiares, laborales o afectivas. Her guileless defiance in exploring her identity through books; “ I could and would have it all: my ideas, books, writing and love. I liked this book even though I don’t think it was as groundbreaking or tightly argued as her books The Will to Change or All About Love. Although I haven’t read a lot of feminist text, reading her book has made me approach feminist discussions sensibly- especially within the Nigerian context. He (her father ) believed that in a proper family, the man would always be the undisputed head of the household.

We have changed our ways of thinking about aging and we have changed our ways of thinking about love. kadınların okurken eğitim, kültür, birikim seviyesi çok önemli olmadan anlayabileceği kitaplar yazmaya çalışıyor ki kitaplarında yer yer kendisinin de şikayetlendiği "teoride iyiydi güzeldi, yaşarken hiç öyle olmadı, kimse feminist pratiğin günlük hayatta nasıl uygulanacağından bahsetmedi" minvalinde bahsettiği kısımları var. Anti-patriarchal thinking, which assumes that both women and men are equally capable of learning how to love, is the only foundation on which to construct sustained, meaningful, mutual love. Although it is risky, when we are self-loving, our growing contentment and personal power sustains us when we are rejected or punished for refusing to follow conventional sexist roles. Ein möglicher Gedanke, weshalb ich mich mit einigen Aussagen nicht so recht identifizieren konnte könnte sein, dass das Original bereits 2002 erschienen ist und aufgrund dessen eventuell die eine oder andere Aussage überholt ist.hooks' treatise on love is passionate and positive, and goes a long way to build up strength and determination in readers. Hooks tries to address women-social conditions, feminism, man-woman relationships, self-perception in women, and patriarchal morality used to groom women in society. I also liked the way she tore into our culture's devaluation of platonic and queer relationships: In heterosexist, patriarchal culture, the only commitments that are deemed truly acceptable and worthy are those between straight women and men who marry. I found pages and pages to be saying things that I (and I think most eager feminists in their 20s) would have thought about already, but then again, this book has a very broad target audience! In "Outliers," Malcolm Gladwell argues that it takes about 10,000 hours of practice become an expert at something.

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