Reviews tagging 'Racism'

All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks

18 reviews

kers_tin's review against another edition

inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Child abuse, Death, Suicide, Racism, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Gun violence, and Misogyny

vixenreader's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

The themes are familiar (especially when compared to the years 2000 and 2023), but its perspective on finding love in a society that continues to promote lovelessness is still relevant.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Death, and Sexism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Physical abuse, Addiction, Hate crime, Religious bigotry, Drug use, Fatphobia, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Homophobia, and Racism

Minor: Mental illness, Violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic friendship

Discussions of isolation, homelessness, the negative affects of the mass media, and hopelessness are featured.

sderi's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Racism, Mental illness, Religious bigotry, Colonisation, Abandonment, Chronic illness, Death, Gaslighting, Grief, Infidelity, Sexism, and Toxic relationship

unsuccessfulbookclub's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

Transformative.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism, Misogyny, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Violence, and Racism

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

random19379's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism

Minor: Racism

sommer22's review

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

this is a deeply insightful book that greatly changed my perception of Love. even as an agnostic, the idea of love as a spiritual practice is greatly moving and motivating, and i feel that everyone would do well to incorporate at least parts of that idea into their lives. the one drawback of this book that i can think of is that it's very of-its-time; written more than twenty years ago, hooks still uses mostly gendered language and frames romantic relationships in a mostly heteronormative way. she does exemplify her sister, who is a lesbian, but this is an exception. however, the ideas in this book are applicable to all relationships between people, and remain salient över twenty years after this book was published.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, and Racism

corneliusmcstrawberry's review

hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

this book is a bit self-help-y but it’s not that bad. previous reviews have noted that bell hooks shames monica lewinsky, and she does, which seemed anti-feminist and insensitive. aside from that, there were moments that really stuck w me and applied to my own life. survivors of abuse may find this book insightful, comforting, and eye-opening, and i’d recommend it to them. there were some points where i found myself skimming on autopilot - reading a 200 page book solely about love becomes a bit monotonous after a while and so i had to take breaks. but bell hooks’ writing style is clear and direct, and as i alluded to earlier, she makes a lot of great points about how love and abuse cannot coexist even though our culture begs to differ in many ways. i’ve seen this book quoted and recommended online a lot, which is why i read it, and indeed it is chock-full of inspiring and thoughtful quotes about love. overall, i liked it. this is not the first of bell hooks’ works that i have read - i read an article of hers titled  ‘women at work’ and i do believe that she deserves the praise she gets for her writings about patriarchy (which, naturally, are prominent in ‘all about love’ too). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism and Misogyny

Moderate: Racism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Grief, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Addiction, Cancer, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, and Death

mallory10100's review

i just wasn’t in the mood for non-fiction books 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Racism, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Grief, Lesbophobia, and Mental illness