{"title":"Bell Hooks","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-last-interview-3","title":"The Last Interview","description":"\u003cp\u003ebell hooks was a prolific, trailblazing author, feminist, social activist, cultural critic, and professor. Born Gloria Jean Watkins, bell used her pen name to centre attention on her ideas and to honour her courageous great-grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks. hooks's unflinching dedication to her work forged deep grooves for the feminist and anti-racist movements. In this collection of interviews, from early in her career until her last interview before her death, she discusses feminism, the complexity of rap music and masculinity, her relationship to Buddhism, the 'politic of domination,' sexuality, and love and the importance of communication across cultural borders. Whether she was sparking controversy on campuses or facing criticism from contemporaries, hooks relentlessly challenged herself and those around her, inserted herself into the tensions of the cultural moment, and anchored herself with love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"melville house","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50434107900235,"sku":"2028664","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/411kGTW5cSL._SX331_BO1204203200__aa799e05_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726885783"},{"product_id":"art-on-my-mind-visual-politics","title":"Art on My Mind: Visual Politics","description":"\u003cp\u003eA rich, thought-provoking collection of essays, critiques and interviews from the influential author of Ain't I a Woman and All About Love‘\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf one could make a people lose touch with their capacity to create, lose sight of their will and their power to make art, then the work of subjugation, of colonization, is complete. Such work can be undone only by acts of reclamation.’In a collection of essays, critiques and interviews, bell hooks responds to the ongoing dialogues about producing, exhibiting and criticising art and aesthetics in a world increasingly concerned with identity politics. hooks shares her own experience of the transformative power of art whilst exploring topics ranging from art in education and the home to the politics of space and imagination as a revolutionary tool. She positions her writings on visual politics within the ever-present question of how art can be empowering within the Black community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpeaking with artists such as Carrie Mae Weems and Alison Saar, and examining the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Art on My Mind is a generous and expansive body of work that has become increasingly relevant since it was first published in 1995. Here is an essential tool for understanding the contemporary moment, and a fundamental text for any reader concerned with making and sustaining a democratic artistic culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50446328955211,"sku":"2212926","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/71IyUpCyOuL._SY522__c8c123a1_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727057639"},{"product_id":"all-about-love-2","title":"All About Love","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs bell hooks uses her incisive mind to explore the question “What is love?” her answers strike at both the mind and heart. Razing the cultural paradigm 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. The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the “100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life.” All About Love is a powerful, timely affirmation of just how profoundly her revelations can change hearts and minds for the better. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"harper collins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":51139636625739,"sku":"2240596","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/71xEYZI8kL._SY522__21c24377_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1737543159"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/bell-hooks.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}