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The confusion boys experience about their identity is heightened during adolescence. In many ways th...

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When we see love as the will to nurture one's own or another's spiritual growth, revealed through ac...

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True love is a different story. When it happens, individuals usually feel in touch with each other's...

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No wonder then that men who cared, who were open to change, often just gave up, falling back on the ...

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The men in my life have always been the folks who are wary of using the word 'love' lightly. They ar...

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With heightened focus on the construction of woman as a "victim" of gender equality deserving repara...

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An overwhelming majority of us come from dysfunctional families in which we were taught we were not ...

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When we understand love as the will to nurture our own and another's spiritual growth, it becomes cl...

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

When we are loving, we openly and honestly express care, affection, responsibility, respect, commitm...

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In the Mars-and-Venus-gendered universe, men want power and women want emotional attachment and conn...

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

If you go door to door in our nation and talk to citizens about domestic violence, almost everyone w...

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When we understand love as the will to nurture our own and another's spiritual growth, it becomes cl...

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When we love children, we acknowledge by our every action that they are not property, that they have...

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Love was always and only about good feeling. In early adolescence when we were whipped and told that...

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Testimony in new age writing affirms the way in which embracing a love ethic transforms life for the...

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Erotic attraction often serves as the catalyst for an intimate connection between two people, but it...

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Most men and women born in the fifties or earlier were socialized to believe that marriages and/or c...

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Young girls often feel strong, courageous, highly creative, and powerful until they begin to receive...

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Bell hooksCommunion: The Female Search for Love

Significantly, romantic friendships can coexist with the fact of partners' marrying because their re...

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Most feminist groups began with women talking about how we saw ourselves and other women, how we act...

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The feminist call was for women to embrace ways of seeing beauty and adorning ourselves that are hea...

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Bell hooksCommunion: The Female Search for Love

Heightened awareness often gives the illusion that a problem is lessening. This is most often not th...

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Bell hooksCommunion: The Female Search for Love

I think the truth is that finding ourselves brings more excitement and well-being than anything roma...

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Women will only be truly sexually liberated when we arrive at a place where we can see ourselves as ...

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Bell hooksFeminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

Critical interventions around race did not destroy the women's movement; it became stronger . . . It...

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Bell hooksFeminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

If improving conditions in the workplace for women had been a central agenda for feminist movement i...

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Bell hooksFeminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

Addressing the economic plight of women may ultimately be the feminist platform that draws a collect...

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Bell hooksFeminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

This fear of maleness that they inspire estranges men from every female in their lives to greater or...

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Men come to sex hoping that it will provide them with all of the emotional satisfaction that would h...

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No matter that information abounds that lets the public know that gay males come from two-parent hom...

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There seems to be a fear that if men are raised to be people of integrity, people who can love, they...

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What the world needs now is liberated men who have the qualities Silverstein cites, men who are 'emp...

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