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

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What's most changed is the constructive way women of all ages, classes, and ethnicities cope with these difficulties. The conversations held have resurfaced the demand for dismantling patriarchal notions of morality, taught to women by women, society, family, and religion. Hooks tries to address women-social conditions, feminism, man-woman relationships, self-perception in women, and patriarchal morality used to groom women in society.

A group of my friends decided to read it and then get together and talk about it, and in going back through and pulling out quotes for discussion from pages I’ve marked, I can get a good sense of what I did and didn’t like about it.

Perhaps she is right about the man in this particular case purposefully withholding, but I would argue that women are equally capable of purposefully withholding and men have just as much right to say no, even over extended periods of time. In this case, the power structure being scrutinized is patriarchy, a power structure that degrades, dehumanizes, mutilates, maims, and destroys the bodies of women, and does so through sexualized violence.

Hooks presents the idea of love being an individualized feature that exudes out only when there is overflow. kadınların okurken eğitim, kültür, birikim seviyesi çok önemli olmadan anlayabileceği kitaplar yazmaya çalışıyor ki kitaplarında yer yer kendisinin de şikayetlendiği "teoride iyiydi güzeldi, yaşarken hiç öyle olmadı, kimse feminist pratiğin günlük hayatta nasıl uygulanacağından bahsetmedi" minvalinde bahsettiği kısımları var. Oh, how I was filled with delight when I heard Mama and her friends carry on about the joys of "the change of life. I admit that only once I started focusing on prioritizing and improving myself did I attract the right person into my life.It is a testament to the learned ignorance of political reality that so many females cannot accept that patriarchy requires of men cruelty to women, that the will to do violence defines heterosexual, patriarchal masculinity. I found again and again that if I talked openly about the importance of giving and receiving love in my life, especially about my desire to have a partner, there feelings were ridiculed or mocked.

All the conversations I’ve had with women and my female friends, so many insights were given into those conversations at a much higher level here. Gloria Jean Watkins, better known by her pen name bell hooks, was an American author and social activist who was Distinguished Professor in Residence at Berea College. Powerful, self-loving women know that our ability to take care of our emotional needs is essential, but this does not take the place of loving fellowship and partnership. Aslında annem de feminist sayılacak denli bilinçli ve güçlü bir kadındı ancak evimizde politik olarak feminizmin konuşulduğunu anımsamıyorum.

When the world started changing for women because of feminist movement and a lot became more equal than it ever had been, for a time it was only women who had been allowed a taste of power -- class privilege or education or extra-special-hard-to-ignore-gifts-who most "got it" and "got with it. Our talk of this suffering would be stale and commonplace, were it not for all the creative ways women are attending to the issue of aging both in midlife and in the postsixty years. Antipatriarchal thinking, which assumes that both women and men are equally capable of learning how to love, of giving and receiving love, is the only foundation on which to construct sustained, meaningful, mutual love. Nothing was more frightening to women who wanted to be with men than a feminist movement exposing the depths of male contempt and disregard for the female sex.

bell hooks will be like, "MOST WOMEN had fathers who left them which is why WE seek out men who are emotionally unavailable.There was a lot less I disagreed with in this book, and I could see she made more of an attempt to be LGBTQ+ inclusive (although weak and insufficient). Celebrated as one of our nation's leading public intellectual by The Atlantic Monthly, as well as one of Utne Reader's 100 Visionaries Who Could Change Your Life, she is a charismatic speaker who divides her time among teaching, writing, and lecturing around the world. It gave room for ebullient reading and the possibility to weave in vigorous gender and feminist arguments from different acclaimed authors, some of which I have cited above. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. And the outcome of that work is often the recognition that they would rather be alone than remain in unsatisfying partnerships.