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Íntima, reveladora y provocadora, Comunión es una obra que desafía a todas las mujeres a que asumamos el valor de reclamar la búsqueda del amor como el viaje heroico que todas debemos escoger para liberarnos de verdad.

"When women get together and talk about men, the news is almost always bad news," writes bell hooks. "If the topic gets specific and the focus is on black men, the news is even worse." In this powerful new book, bell hooks arrests our attention from the first minute. Her title--WeReal Cool; her subject--the way in which both white society and weak black leaders are failing black men and youth. Her subject is taboo: "this is a culture that does not love black males:" "they are not loved by white men, white women, black women, girls or boys.

According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore Bell Hooks's electrifying feminist explorations. Targeting cultural icons as diverse as Madonna and Spike Lee, Outlaw Culture presents a collection of essays that pulls no punches. As Hooks herself notes, interrogations of popular culture can be a "powerful site for intervention, challenge and change." And intervene, challenge, and change is what hooks does best.

In the critical essays collected in Black Looks, bell hooks interrogates old narratives and argues for alternative ways to look at blackness, black subjectivity, and whiteness. Her focus is on spectatorship—in particular, the way blackness and black people are experienced in literature, music, television, and especially film—and her aim is to create a radical intervention into the way we talk about race and representation. As she describes: "the essays in Black Looks are meant to challenge and unsettle, to disrupt and subvert."

In this provocative and captivating dialogue, bell hooks and Cornel West come together to discuss the dilemmas, contradictions, and joys of Black intellectual life. The two friends and comrades in struggle talk, argue, and disagree about everything from community to capitalism in a series of intimate conversations that range from playful to probing to revelatory. In evoking the act of breaking bread, the book calls upon the various traditions of sharing that take place in domestic, secular, and sacred life.

"Respondona" trata sobre el significado de la conciencia feminista en la vida diaria, la recuperación personal, la superación de la supremacía blanca y masculina, las relaciones íntimas y, todo ello, explorando el punto donde lo público y lo privado se encuentran. Cuando era niña, bell hooks aprendió que dirigirse de igual a igual a una figura de autoridad y atreverse a estar en desacuerdo o a dar una opinión significaba ser "respondona". En esta colección de ensayos tan personales como teóricos, hooks reflexiona sobre sus temas clásicos.

Movies matter—that is the message of Reel to Real, bell hooks' classic collection of essays on film. They matter on a personal level, providing us with unforgettable moments, even life-changing experiences, and they can confront us, too, with the most profound social issues of race, sex and class. Here bell hooks—one of America's most celebrated and thrilling cultural critics—talks back to films that have moved and provoked her, from Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction to the work of Spike Lee.

Comment échapper aux schémas sexistes dans nos relations intimes ? Enrichissant sa réflexion de la question du racisme, dans une optique intersectionnelle, Bell Hooks nous rappelle dans ces quatre essais inédits en français qu'aimer, c'est d'abord se libérer.

Perché abbiamo paura di parlare d’amore? Tutto sull’amore di bell hooks nasce da questa domanda che spesso genera imbarazzo, reticenza, e persino rabbia. Nonostante l’amore sia il sentimento più spontaneo e universale, che segna l’esistenza di ogni essere umano, parlarne, confessarlo a qualcuno, provare a raccontare come si agita dentro di noi ci terrorizza e ci disorienta: l’angoscia che le nostre parole non siano comprese, i nostri desideri corrisposti o i nostri sogni realizzati, genera un insensato odio per l’amore che tutti finiamo per vivere.

bell hooks, aclamada crítica cultural, continúa su exploración del significado del amor y nos ofrece una visión crítica e innovadora que sana la herida provocada por una sociedad carente de afecto. El amor nos afecta a todos, pero cada uno lo representa y lo experimenta de manera diferente debido a sus circunstancias personales. En este libro, bell hooks analiza cómo la experiencia del amor en las personas negras ha sido influenciada por factores sociales más amplios, como el racismo y la deshumanización que han sufrido por parte de otras razas.

Feminist icon bell hooks reminds us of the full spectrum of feeling we spend in love through her inspiring collection of love poetry, with a new introduction by Cole Arthur Riley, author of Black Liturgies. Written from the heart, When Angels Speak of Love is a book of fifty love poems by bell...

From the late feminist icon and New York Times bestselling author of All About Love, an in-depth look at one of the most critical issues facing Black Americans: a collective wounded self-esteem that has prevailed from slavery to the present day, with a new introduction by Tressie McMillan Cottom...

En Enseñar a transgredir, bell hooks, escritora, maestra e intelectual insurgente, escribe sobre un nuevo tipo de educación, la educación como práctica de la libertad. Enseñar a los estudiantes a "transgredir" los límites raciales, sexuales y de clase para lograr el regalo de la libertad es, para hooks, el objetivo más importante del maestro.