The construction of love and woman as body in hooks' All About Love: New Visions and Communion: The Female Search for Love

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Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Akdeniz Üniversitesi, Edebiyat Fakültesi, İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2022

Tezin Dili: İngilizce

Öğrenci: Arife Ülkü Limoncu Orhan

Danışman: Arda Arıkan

Özet:

Gloria Jean Watkins, known as bell hooks (1952-2021), was an African-American feminist theorist, activist, writer, and critic whose work provided feminist theory with fresh insight. Hence, this study examines the liberating relationship between women’s love and body as expressed in bell hooks’ two books, All About Love: New Visions and Communion: Searching Love for Woman. In addition to adhering to these two primary sources, her related works are also included in the analysis to support the arguments set more profoundly. When hooks’ selected works are examined, it is seen that hooks gave great importance to women’s love, emancipation/liberation, and body. This triangulation, as this study argues, is the core of hooks’ conceptualization of women’s problems. In this study, the reader can read a thorough discussion of feminist ideals as reflected in hooks’ works, memoirs, and quotes and comments taken from her texts in a direct and friendly manner, just like how hooks did with her open style.