“The word “love” is most often defined as a noun, yet…we would all love better if we used it as a verb,” ysgrifennwyd bell hooks, ym ymladd ac ar dân yn All About Love. Yma, ar ei mwyaf pryfoclyd a hynod bersonol, mae’r ysgolhaig o fri, y beirniad diwylliannol, a’r ffeministaidd yn sgiwer ein golwg ar gariad fel rhamant. Yn ei lle mae hi’n cynnig moeseg newydd ragweithiol i bobl a chymdeithas di-gariad.

Writh i bell hooks defnyddio ei meddwl treiddgar a’i beiro finiog i archwilio’r cwestiwn “beth yw gariad?” mae ei hatebion yn taro’r meddwl a’r galon. Mewn 13 o benodau cryno, mae hooks yn archwilio ei chwiliad ei hun am gysylltiad emosyional a methiant cymdeithas i ddarparu model ar gyfer dysgu caru. Gan ysbeilio’r patrwm diwylliannol bod y cariad delfrydol yn cael ei drwytho â rhyw, mae hi’n darparu llwybr newydd i gariad sy’n gysegredig, yn achubol ac yn iachâd i’r unigolion ac i’r genedl.

“The word “love” is most often defined as a noun, yet…we would all love better if we used it as a verb,” writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, the renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist skewers our view of love as romance. In its place she offers a proactive new ethic for a people and a society bereft with lovelessness.

As bell hooks uses her incisive mind and razor-sharp pen to explore the question “What is love?” her answers strike at both the mind and heart. In thirteen concise chapters, hooks examines her own search for emotional connection and society’s failure to provide a model for learning to love. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for the individuals and for a nation.