--- product_id: 99303167 title: "All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation Book 1)" price: "1847CFA" currency: XOF in_stock: false reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.sn/products/99303167-all-about-love-new-visions-love-song-to-the-nation store_origin: SN region: Senegal --- # All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation Book 1) **Price:** 1847CFA **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation Book 1) - **How much does it cost?** 1847CFA with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sn](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/99303167-all-about-love-new-visions-love-song-to-the-nation) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description 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 . Provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks speaks to society stricken 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. In this landmark book, bell hooks explores the question “What is love?” Disputing 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. All About Love is a powerful, timely affirmation of just how profoundly love and community can change hearts and minds for the better. Part of the groundbreaking "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy that includes Communion and Salvation On the New York Times bestseller list for over a year. Speaks to the mind and the heart about the transformational power of love to heal society. Review: What If We Actually Chose Love? - This was my first book by bell hooks, and it definitely won't be my last. I've always been a lover of love...not just romantic love, but the idea of it, the practice of it, and everything it requires of us. That's what made All About Love resonate so deeply with me. This isn't simply a book about romance. It's about how we define love, how we fail to practice it, and how much better our relationships, families, and communities could be if we treated love as an action instead of just a feeling. My favorite chapter was the one about love and the relationship between adults and children. I agreed with every word. It didn't challenge my thinking...it validated it. I've long believed there's a disparity in how adults and children are treated in relationships and that children deserve more grace, respect, care, and love than society often affords them. bell hooks put words to thoughts I've held for a long time, and it was comforting to know someone else saw it too and articulated it so beautifully. One thing that fascinated me after finishing was seeing the vast differences in readers' reviews. In a way, I think those differing perspectives reflect the very society bell hooks writes about. We don't all define love the same way, value it the same way, or expect the same things from it. This book only strengthened my belief that love is a choice, a practice, and a responsibility. More than anything, I walked away wishing more people chose love...not just the feeling, but the daily practice of it. Review: A profound and heartwarming study on love - This book is so deeply kind and compassionate in nature. Bell Hooks chose to study and ponder on love like it was her life’s mission and I believe it is. I love all of the quotes and references she has to other books and poets that she has been inspired by. Love is what we all need and the lack of it and the devaluation of it is likely what is causing all the pain and turmoil in our world. I believe that things can and will get better as we all choose to be more loving and turn our hearts and minds to opening loves pathways. This book has changed me and mended me. I am very grateful for the wisdom and love within its pages. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #20,736 in Kindle Store ( See Top 100 in Kindle Store ) #1 in General Gender Studies #2 in Popular Culture in Social Sciences #3 in Gender Studies (Kindle Store) | ## Images ![All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation Book 1) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61s7T46qa2L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ What If We Actually Chose Love? *by B***H on July 6, 2026* This was my first book by bell hooks, and it definitely won't be my last. I've always been a lover of love...not just romantic love, but the idea of it, the practice of it, and everything it requires of us. That's what made All About Love resonate so deeply with me. This isn't simply a book about romance. It's about how we define love, how we fail to practice it, and how much better our relationships, families, and communities could be if we treated love as an action instead of just a feeling. My favorite chapter was the one about love and the relationship between adults and children. I agreed with every word. It didn't challenge my thinking...it validated it. I've long believed there's a disparity in how adults and children are treated in relationships and that children deserve more grace, respect, care, and love than society often affords them. bell hooks put words to thoughts I've held for a long time, and it was comforting to know someone else saw it too and articulated it so beautifully. One thing that fascinated me after finishing was seeing the vast differences in readers' reviews. In a way, I think those differing perspectives reflect the very society bell hooks writes about. We don't all define love the same way, value it the same way, or expect the same things from it. This book only strengthened my belief that love is a choice, a practice, and a responsibility. More than anything, I walked away wishing more people chose love...not just the feeling, but the daily practice of it. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A profound and heartwarming study on love *by B***Y on July 16, 2026* This book is so deeply kind and compassionate in nature. Bell Hooks chose to study and ponder on love like it was her life’s mission and I believe it is. I love all of the quotes and references she has to other books and poets that she has been inspired by. Love is what we all need and the lack of it and the devaluation of it is likely what is causing all the pain and turmoil in our world. I believe that things can and will get better as we all choose to be more loving and turn our hearts and minds to opening loves pathways. This book has changed me and mended me. I am very grateful for the wisdom and love within its pages. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A courageous book that should be widely read *by A***F on March 14, 2002* There aren't many public discussions of love in America outside of popular culture -- movies, music, books, magazines -- but there should be, because lack of an expansive understanding of and capacity for love is behind much that is wrong in our society. When bell hooks noticed that the world she was living in "was no longer open to love" and that "lovelessness had become the order of the day," she decided to write about it. "I began thinking and writing about love when I heard cynicism instead of hope in the voices of young and old," she says. The result is a book that's a refreshing change from relationship advice books that completely overlook the cultural context of love -- the ways in which love is difficult for both men and women, but especially for women, in a patriarchal culture; the ways in which a more expansive understanding of love is sorely needed to set things right in a country run by fear. hooks begins by addressing the pervasive confusion about what love is, defining it as M. Scott Peck does: "The will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth." The chapters in which hooks names "the ways we are seduced away from love" read as a litany of soul-corroding cultural norms. There is, most fundamentally, injustice to children in dysfunctional families in a culture where family dysfunction is normalized. Then there's the increasing prevalence of lying in public and private transactions alike, most recently exemplified in the Enron scandal and the priest-pedophile scandal in the Catholic Church. There's the cultural obsession with power and domination instead of a love ethic. (hooks pulls no punches when she states: "An overall cultural embrace of a love ethic would mean that we would all oppose much of the public policy conservatives condone and support.") There's also the vast and unending greed encouraged by a consumerist society. And last but not least, there's our collective fear of and at the same time worship of death. (What else could explain the great popularity of movies saturated with violence, such as "Lord of the Rings"?) Then there are the chapters where hooks explores the importance of self-love, the reality of divine love, the crucial role played by friendships and communities, the role of romantic love in helping us resolve and transform family-of-origin wounds if approached consciously, the real healing power of true love, and the yearning for love that lies behind the popular fascination with angels. The only topic I found missing from her comprehensive look at love is biophilia, that love of nature named by Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson. I'm coming to realize that any concept of intimacy with our particular place on earth is sorely absent from most American lives, imperiling our planet's health as well as our own. Throughout the book, it's hooks's personal revelations that make what she says credible and that especially strike a chord in me. I found in her a sister spirit. Just my age, she could be describing my relationship history when she describes her own. And herein lies my biggest quibble with the book: wishing to avoid the kind of disappointments in relationships with men I've had in the past, I want to believe that I can find satisfying love with a male, but the many generalizations hooks makes about men in our culture make me wonder. I fear she may be right when she says that "most men feel that they receive love and therefore know what it feels like to be loved; women often feel we are in a constant state of yearning, wanting love but not receiving it" (p. xx). According to hooks, many, if not most, men under patriarchy tell lies "to avoid confrontation or taking responsibility for inappropriate behavior" (p. 36), "use psychological terrorism as a way to subordinate women" (p. 41), "are especially inclined to see love as something they should receive without expending effort . . . . [and] do not want to do the work that love demands" (p. 114), are usually prevented by sexist thinking from "acknowledging their longing for love or their acceptance of a female as their guide on love's path" (p. 156), "are convinced that their erotic longing indicates who they should, and can, love . . . . [and] tend to be more concerned about sexual performance and sexual satisfaction than whether they are capable of giving and receiving love" (pp. 174, 176), and "choose relationships in which they can be emotionally withholding when they feel like it but still receive love from someone else. . . . [and ultimately] choose power over love" (p. 187). Hmmm. Men, what do you say to this? Can you deny it? "Profound changes in the way we think and act must take place if we are to create a loving culture," writes hooks. I, for one, would welcome those changes and am working on making them in myself. Despite being marred by unfortunate typos ("Living by a Love Ethnic" [viii], "perfect love casts our fear" [220]), this is a courageous and important book that should be read widely and taken to heart. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.sn/products/99303167-all-about-love-new-visions-love-song-to-the-nation](https://www.desertcart.sn/products/99303167-all-about-love-new-visions-love-song-to-the-nation) --- *Product available on Desertcart Senegal* *Store origin: SN* *Last updated: 2026-09-14*