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Communion

Author	: bell hooks
Publsiher	: HarperCollins
Total Pages	: 272
Release	: 2021-10-12
Genre	: Social Science
ISBN	: 0063215950
Rating	: 4.2/5 (159 downloads)

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“When truth teller and careful writer bell hooks offers a book, I like to be standing at the bookshop when it opens.” –Maya Angelou Renowned visionary bell hooks explored the meaning of love in American culture with the critically acclaimed bestseller All About Love: New Visions. She continued her national dialogue with the bestselling Salvation: Black People and Love. Now hooks culminates her triumphant trilogy of love with Communion: The Female Search for Love. Intimate, 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. Communion is the heart-to-heart talk every woman -- mother, daughter, friend, and lover -- needs to have.

All About Love

Author	: bell hooks
Publsiher	: HarperCollins
Total Pages	: 272
Release	: 2018-01-30
Genre	: Family & Relationships
ISBN	: 0062862170
Rating	: 4.8/5 (621 downloads)

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A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces. “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, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft with lovelessness--not the lack of romance, but the lack of care, compassion, and unity. People are divided, she declares, by society’s failure to provide a model for learning to love. As bell hooks uses her incisive mind to explore the question “What is love?” her answers strike at both the mind and heart. 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 individuals and for a nation. The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the “100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life.” All About Love is a powerful, timely affirmation of just how profoundly her revelations can change hearts and minds for the better.

The Polyamory Workbook

Author	: Sara Youngblood Gregory
Publsiher	: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages	: 160
Release	: 2022-11-15
Genre	: Family & Relationships
ISBN	: 1646044061
Rating	: 4.0/5 (44 downloads)

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Successfully navigate nonmonogamous relationships with this practical workbook filled with activities, journal prompts, interviews, and more activities designed to make polyamory work for you and your loved ones. What makes nonmonogamy feel good? Where do we draw the line between loving, freedom-based relationships and a free-for-all? How can you make the joyful, secure polyamorous relationships you want a reality? The Polyamory Workbook not only answers these questions, but also helps you determine what you really want when it comes to your life, your relationships, and the community you build-and how to get it. Packed with helpful journal prompts, activities, and advice designed to make polyamory work for you and your loved ones,The Polyamory Workbook draws key information from real polyamorous people and relationship experts to help you expand your emotional and relational toolbox, better preparing you for the dive into nonmonogamy. This workbook focuses on the foundational knowledge everyone interested in or already practicing polyamory should know, including: Types of nonmonogamy Communication styles Boundary setting Consent Metamours and jealousy Pitfalls and red flags Breakups And more! Whether you’re new to nonmonogamy or have been practicing polyamory for a while, The Polyamory Workbook will help you identify and break away from fear-based relationships and journey toward freer, more joyful connections.

Tracking the Wild Woman Archetype

Author	: Stacey Shelby
Publsiher	: Chiron Publications
Total Pages	: 153
Release	: 2018-01-22
Genre	: Psychology
ISBN	: 1630514861
Rating	: 4.5/5 (148 downloads)

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A Critical Companion to Sofia Coppola

Author	: Naaman Wood
Publsiher	: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages	: 303
Release	: 2022-08-31
Genre	: Performing Arts
ISBN	: 179363680X
Rating	: 4.6/5 (368 downloads)

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This volume offers eight interdisciplinary readings to the films of Sofia Coppola, analyzing her oeuvre with a focus on her treatment of masculinity, sexual politics, bodies, and love.

The Will to Change

Author	: bell hooks
Publsiher	: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages	: 210
Release	: 2004-01-06
Genre	: Social Science
ISBN	: 0743480333
Rating	: 4.4/5 (83 downloads)

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Everyone needs to love and be loved—even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways that patriarchal culture keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving. In The Will to Change, bell hooks gets to the heart of the matter and shows men how to express the emotions that are a fundamental part of who they are—whatever their age, marital status, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. But toxic masculinity punishes those fundamental emotions, and it’s so deeply ingrained in our society that it’s hard for men to not comply—but hooks wants to help change that. With trademark candor and fierce intelligence, hooks addresses the most common concerns of men, such as fear of intimacy and loss of their patriarchal place in society, in new and challenging ways. She believes men can find the way to spiritual unity by getting back in touch with the emotionally open part of themselves—and lay claim to the rich and rewarding inner lives that have historically been the exclusive province of women. A brave and astonishing work, The Will to Change is designed to help men reclaim the best part of themselves.

The Communism of Love

Author	: Richard Gilman-Opalsky
Publsiher	: AK Press
Total Pages	: 277
Release	: 2020-12-01
Genre	: Philosophy
ISBN	: 1849353921
Rating	: 4.3/5 (539 downloads)

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Exploring the meanings and powers of love from ancient Greece to the present day, Richard Gilman-Opalsky argues that what is called “love” by the best thinkers who have approached the subject is in fact the beating heart of communism—understood as a way of living, not as a form of government. Along the way, he reveals with clarity that the capitalist way of assigning value to things is incapable of appreciating what humans value most. Capitalism cannot value the experiences and relationships that make our lives worth living and can only destroy love by turning it into a commodity. The Communism of Love follows the struggles of love in different contexts of race, class, gender, and sexuality, and shows how the aspiration for love is as close as we may get to a universal communist aspiration.

Promoting Black Women's Mental Health

Author	: Donna Baptiste
Publsiher	: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages	: 419
Release	: 2023-04-30
Genre	: Medical
ISBN	: 1108842933
Rating	: 4.8/5 (429 downloads)

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An invaluable resource for mental health practitioners working to support Black women clients heal and thrive.

Politics and Affect in Black Women's Fiction

Author	: Kathy Glass
Publsiher	: Lexington Books
Total Pages	: 135
Release	: 2017-12-15
Genre	: Philosophy
ISBN	: 1498538401
Rating	: 4.5/5 (384 downloads)

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Exploring literary possibilities, Politics and Affect reads black women’s text—in particular Frances Harper’s “The Two Offers” (1859), Julia Collins’s The Curse of Caste (1865), Nella Larsen’s Quicksand (1928), and Danzy Senna’s Caucasia (1998)—as richly creative documents saturated with sociopolitical value. Interested in how African American women writers from the nineteenth century to the present have mined the politics of affect and emotion to document love, shame, and suffering in environments shaped by race, Kathy Glass gives sustained attention to the impact of racist affect on the black body, and examines how black women writers deploy emotional states to engender sociopolitical change.

The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature

Author	: Angelyn Mitchell
Publsiher	: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages	: 337
Release	: 2009-04-30
Genre	: Literary Criticism
ISBN	: 0521858887
Rating	: 4.8/5 (588 downloads)

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The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature covers a period dating back to the eighteenth century. These specially commissioned essays highlight the artistry, complexity and diversity of a literary tradition that ranges from Lucy Terry to Toni Morrison. A wide range of topics are addressed, from the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement, and from the performing arts to popular fiction. Together, the essays provide an invaluable guide to a rich, complex tradition of women writers in conversation with each other as they critique American society and influence American letters. Accessible and vibrant, with the needs of undergraduate students in mind, this Companion will be of great interest to anybody who wishes to gain a deeper understanding of this important and vital area of American literature.

Presenting Oprah Winfrey, Her Films, and African American Literature

Author	: T. Green
Publsiher	: Springer
Total Pages	: 182
Release	: 2012-12-28
Genre	: Literary Criticism
ISBN	: 1137282460
Rating	: 4.2/5 (824 downloads)

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Oprah Winfrey has long promoted black issues by being involved as a producer or actor in the adaptation of works by African American writers for film. This volume evaluates Winfrey's involvement in the visual interpretation of African American literary texts using film, music, black masculinity, black feminist, and cultural theory.

The Awakened Woman

Author	: Tererai Trent
Publsiher	: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages	: 288
Release	: 2017-10-03
Genre	: Self-Help
ISBN	: 1501145681
Rating	: 4.1/5 (456 downloads)

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Winner of a 2017 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, this moving manifesto “empowers women to access a fearlessness that will enable community progress” (Essence). Through one incredible woman’s journey from a small Zimbabwe village to becoming one of the world’s most recognizable voices in women’s empowerment and education, this book “can help any woman achieve her full potential” (Kirkus Reviews). Before Tererai Trent landed on Oprah’s stage as her “favorite guest of all time,” she was a woman with a forgotten dream. As a young girl in a cattle-herding village in Zimbabwe, she dreamed of receiving an education but instead was married young and by eighteen, without a high school graduation, she was already a mother of three. Tererai encountered a visiting American woman who assured her that anything was possible, reawakening her sacred dream. Tererai planted her dreams deep in the earth and prayed they would grow. They did, and now not only has she earned her PhD but she has also built schools for girls in Zimbabwe, with funding from Oprah. The Awakened Woman: A Guide for Remembering & Igniting Your Sacred Dreams is her accessible, intimate, and evocative guide that teaches nine essential lessons to encourage all women to reexamine their dreams and uncover the power hidden within them—power that can recreate our world for the better. Tererai points out that there is a massive, untapped, global resource in women who have, for one reason or another, set aside their wisdom, their skills, and their dreams in order to take care of the personal business of their lives. Not only is this a type of invisible suffering experienced by countless women, this rich resource is a secret weapon for improving our world. Women have the capacity to inspire, to create, to transform—and Tererai’s call to action “shines as a beacon of hope to women everywhere” (Danica McKellar, actress and New York Times bestselling author).

Conscious Women Rock the Page: Using Hip-Hop Fiction to Incite Social Change

Author	: Marcella Runell Hall
Publsiher	: Lulu.com
Total Pages	: 162
Release	: 2008
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 0615199879
Rating	: 4.1/5 (998 downloads)

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Three award-winning activists and novelists-Black Artemis, E-Fierce, and J-Love, join social justice educator Marcella Runell Hall and a diverse team of seasoned educators to develop this collection of engaging and timely standards-referenced lesson plans for 6-12 and beyond. These lessons explore the tools of oppression that keep us divided such as violence, patriarchy and racism. The lessons are based on the popular books: The Sista Hood: On the Mic, Picture Me Rollin' and That White Girl.

Black Women's Mental Health

Author	: Stephanie Y. Evans
Publsiher	: SUNY Press
Total Pages	: 326
Release	: 2017-06-01
Genre	: Psychology
ISBN	: 1438465815
Rating	: 4.4/5 (658 downloads)

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Creates a new framework for approaching Black womens wellness, by merging theory and practice with both personal narratives and public policy. This book offers a unique, interdisciplinary, and thoughtful look at the challenges and potency of Black womens struggle for inner peace and mental stability. It brings together contributors from psychology, sociology, law, and medicine, as well as the humanities, to discuss issues ranging from stress, sexual assault, healing, self-care, and contemplative practice to health-policy considerations and parenting. Merging theory and practice with personal narratives and public policy, the book develops a new framework for approaching Black womens wellness in order to provide tangible solutions. The collection reflects feminist praxis and defines womanist peace in terms that reject both superwoman stereotypes and victim caricatures. Also included for health professionals are concrete recommendations for understanding and treating Black women. this book speaks not only to Black women but also educates a broader audience of policymakers and therapists about the complex and multilayered realities that we must navigate and the protests we must mount on our journey to find inner peace and optimal health. from the Foreword by Linda Goler Blount

Integral Relationships: A Manual for Men

Author	: Martin Ucik
Publsiher	: singles2couples publishing
Total Pages	: 300
Release	: 2010-08
Genre	: Intimacy (Psychology)
ISBN	: 0984570306
Rating	: 4.5/5 (73 downloads)

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Self-compassion and inner strength

Author	: Dr Kristin Neff
Publsiher	: Random House
Total Pages	: 237
Release	: 2022-07-14
Genre	: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN	: 0241624266
Rating	: 4.6/5 (242 downloads)

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A follow up from the bestselling Self-Compassion, this book shows why it is more urgent than ever that women acknowledge their areas of suffering, celebrate their inner voice and challenge the male-orientated status quo. The book will draw on Kristin Neff's own life story as well as the stories of other women to show how readers can harness self-compassion and gain the strength, clarity and courage needed to be resilient and stand up for themselves in our male-dominated society. She'll explore core issues such as gender differences, why we aren't more compassionate to ourselves, and what women do for love. With expert research, concrete tools and easy-to-follow mindfulness practices, this book will empower women to let go of self-criticism, draw boundaries and become fierce.

Carol Shields and the Extra-Ordinary

Author	: Marta Dvorak
Publsiher	: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages	: 288
Release	: 2007
Genre	: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN	: 0773560300
Rating	: 4.5/5 (63 downloads)

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Claiming the "ordinary" and "extra-ordinary" as critical categories, contributors to this volume explore the philosophical and literary import of Carol Shields's writing, its complex play with genre and narrative technique, its re-valuing of domesticity and gendered perspective, and the social critique implicit in its gentle satirical impulses.