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bell hooks

Communion: The Female Search for Love

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

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Essay Topics

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In the context of hooks’s Love Trilogy, examine how Communion builds upon the important ideas present in All About Love and Salvation, using specific quotations from each text to support your essay. More specifically,  how does hooks develop a more nuanced understanding of love across these three works, and in what ways does Communion serve as both a continuation and a revision of her earlier arguments?

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Explore the connections hooks crafts between patriarchy, misogyny, and feminism in the context of love and power, using specific evidence from the text to illustrate how she engages with each idea. For instance, how does hooks define and challenge the ways patriarchy and misogyny shape women’s experiences of love, and what solutions does she propose for creating love beyond systems of domination?

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Why did hooks choose to write each chapter as an individual essay, complete with a title? How would the text be different if the book was written with more closely connected chapters? Consider how this structure affects the reading experience and the book’s accessibility to different audiences.

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