Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks

42 reviews

ambergenesis's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Child abuse

joensign's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Misogyny

v_neptune's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Child abuse

nataliebootlah's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

First book of 2024! ❤️‍🔥

This quick, six-hour audiobook had me going back and forth between “this feels too woo-woo for me” and “wow, that was really profound”. 

bell hooks is best known for her writings on race, feminism, and class, focusing on the exploration of the intersectionality of race, capitalism, and gender. All About Love, unsurprisingly, focuses on love, our misguided expectations of it, and how flawed our understanding of it can be. 

I’m not a self-help book girl most of the time, so I struggled through parts of this. It’s broken down into thirteen chapters ranging from values, romance, spirituality, community, loss, and commitment among a few others. The community chapter resonated with me the most and I think everyone should read it. Other chapters lost my interest pretty quickly either because they weren’t personally applicable to me or felt too subjective. That being said, I appreciate how open hooks is about love and her thoughts on how it can change the world. We need something to do just that and loving one another more freely, especially those from outside our circles, certainly can help. 

If you’re an introspective person who wants to better understand love and improve your relationships (and don’t mind self-help vibes), you’ll likely enjoy this one.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Domestic abuse, Grief, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Child abuse, and Sexism

meemzala's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.5

I’m sad to say I didn’t connect with this book as much as I had hoped to. I’ll continue to read bell hooks’ works. While it may be an unfair critique, her use of heteronormativity and the binary gender construct took me out of the book. I agree that the patriarchy exists, that all people suffer under it, that both men and women exist, and that there is a majority of cisgender heterosexual people in the world. But I disagree that so much of this book needed to focus on that. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, and Child abuse

Moderate: Alcoholism, Abandonment, Cancer, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Toxic friendship and Grief

eliya's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

My brain is swollen with thought. I took a deep, deep breath when I closed this book. It took me so long to read, it is very very dense. Multiple times a chapter I sat and reflected on what I had read, and I am truly grateful that this book was lovingly recommended to me by other people. 
I realize I am fearful and gatekeepy when it comes to loving. 

Bell Hooks is such a thoughtful writer, I often got lost and had to double back. There is so much information and i do wish the flow was a little more conversational, though I’m unsure how effective that would be. The narrative is also pretty gendered & there’s a religious undertone, so take with that what you will. I did love this book regardless.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Sexism, and Toxic relationship

amberinpieces's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Homophobia, Colonisation, Domestic abuse, Racism, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Classism, Grief, and Suicidal thoughts

omenglehart's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

This book goes in my "sacred texts" pile. So many new and complex things to consider and learn from. I reread chapters as I went, it was so good! This book changed the way I love myself and others.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, Toxic relationship, Racism, Child abuse, Grief, Death, Domestic abuse, and Misogyny

ruthhelizabeth's review

challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Violence, Police brutality, Misogyny, Gaslighting, Grief, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Domestic abuse

isaa's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

Estoy de acuerdo con muchas de las criticas que he leído al respecto de este libro. La perspectiva super hetero, el enfoque espiritual desde un punto cristiano, y la falta de fuentes para sus conclusiones son cansados después de un rato. Para el punto en el que llegue al capitulo sobre espiritualidad ya no me dieron muchas ganas de continuar leyendo, como quiera continue y qué bueno que lo hice pero definitivamente me tomo esfuerzo. Sobre la falta de fuentes y datos, entiendo la critica pero también simpatizo con razonamiento de porque escribir así -que sea accessible para cualquier audiencia -, especialmente porque previo a empezar el libro yo tenia la preocupación de que iba a ser muy complicado de entender. A final de cuentas creo que él no acordar con bell hooks en todo fue un buen ejercicio de reflexión.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Violence