{"product_id":"communion-the-female-search-for-love-9780060938291","title":"Communion: The Female Search for Love","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"When truth teller and careful writer bell hooks offers a book, I like to be standing at the bookshop when it opens.\" -Maya Angelou\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRenowned visionary bell hooks explored the meaning of love in American culture with the critically acclaimed bestseller \u003cem\u003eAll About Love: New Visions.\u003c\/em\u003e She continued her national dialogue with the bestselling \u003cem\u003eSalvation: Black People and Love\u003c\/em\u003e. Now hooks culminates her triumphant trilogy of love with \u003cem\u003eCommunion: The Female Search for Love.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntimate, revealing, provocative, Communion challenges every woman to courageously claim the search for love as the heroic journey we must all choose to be truly free. In her trademark commanding and lucid language, hooks explores the ways ideas about women and love were changed by the feminist movement, by women's full participation in the workforce, and by the culture of self-help, and reveals how women of all ages can bring love into every aspect of their lives, for all the years of their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCommunion\u003c\/em\u003e is the heart-to-heart talk every woman -- mother, daughter, friend, and lover -- needs to have.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHooks, Bell:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eBell Hooks\u003c\/strong\u003e is an influential cultural critic, feminist theorist, and writer. Celebrated as one of America's leading public intellectuals, she is a charismatic speaker and writer who teaches and lectures around the world. Previously a professor in the English departments at Yale University and Oberlin College, hooks is the author of more than 17 books, including \u003cstrong\u003eAll About Love: New Visions\u003c\/strong\u003e; \u003cstrong\u003eSalvation: Black People and Love\u003c\/strong\u003e; \u003cstrong\u003eCommunion: the Female Search for Love\u003c\/strong\u003e, as well as the landmark memoir \u003cstrong\u003e Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50574846230802,"sku":"9780060938291","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_666f8d9c-3855-4f26-a067-ac933ee7e1c4.jpg?v=1731976223","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/communion-the-female-search-for-love-9780060938291","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}