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

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In reality, many people in marriages and longtime partnerships are not sexual; behind closed doors their relationships may be similar to, if not the same as, romantic friendships. Oh, how I was filled with delight when I heard Mama and her friends carry on about the joys of "the change of life. shout outs to bell for helping start this conversation that we needed at the beginning of the 21st century. Women may discover that their problems with love are not really issues at all after reading this book.

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.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. Esta señora será una feminista reconocida, pero debería ceñirse a generalidades y no explicar sus intimidades, su biografía, pues entonces aparece una persona narcisista y problemática, con graves dificultades para entender los conceptos de intimidad, reciprocidad e incluso igualdad. I found the chapter/s on older generations to be particularly insightful and useful for me, as I reflect on my parents’ marriage.

bell hooks invita a que las mujeres quebremos y extingamos el patriarcado en nuestras vidas a través de la reconstrucción del amor y el replanteamiento de sus significados dañinos. Idea of a "coming out process" to yourself for realizing/believing/identifying yourself as straight, sharing same process as those who had to consciously come out as queer (p. bell hooks focuses her sights on the patriarchy, both male patriarchs and the female patriarchs who have learned to support the patriarchy in all ways.

Duygu Yoldaşlığı’nı okuduğumda, kadın olarak sevgiyi almaya ve vermeye dair kolektif ihtiyacımızı feminist politika çerçevesinde hiç konuşmadığımızı fark ettim. Lesbianism, Hook claims, is a possible way to obtain healthy love and, hence, find one’s actual being.