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

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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. She challenged the widely-accepted cultural idea that women are innately more loving than men, and highlighted how toxic gender roles are often still performed even within queer relationships. She discusses the false idea that women are naturally more loving, showing how this is part of patriarchy, and argues that everyone can (and must) learn to love, optimally beginning in childhood. Lesbianism, Hook claims, is a possible way to obtain healthy love and, hence, find one’s actual being.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Women, as Hooks claims, are left to grapple with a corporate job that pays the bills and a second shift of satisfying a man who is sometimes impossible to read.

A woman who does not learn how first to fulfill her psychological needs for acceptance will always operate from a space of lack.

The rise in sexual sadomasochism both in everyday life and in our intimate lives seems to be a direct response to the unresolved changes in the nature of gender roles, the fact that so much gender equality exists in the context of the same old oppressive patriarchy. Another example: “Before it was cool to simply announce one’s feminism…” Um, bell, it’s still not “cool” to “announce one’s feminism.Por tanto, aconsejable solamente para mujeres que quieran encontrar razones para odiar a los hombres. Recently, the angst instigated by feminist movements have pushed for attrition to patriarchal norms in Nigeria. In line with my current fascination with the topics of companionship and love, I am finding a lot of understanding, warmth and good old fashioned lived wisdom in critical thinking based feminist texts. many of the concepts in here are timeless (rejection of patriarchal relationships, duh), but their articulation through 90s references doesn't resonate strongly anymore.