Among bell hooks’s most beloved and widely read books, *On Love* is a unique work. With her characteristic insight and talent for making complex ideas accessible, the Afro-feminist author tackles a theme rarely addressed head-on in political theory. Defining love as an act rather than a feeling, bell hooks dismantles all the obstacles that patriarchal culture places in the way of healthy loving relationships, and envisions an art of loving that goes beyond the thrill of attraction or mere tenderness. Drawing on both moral philosophy and psychology, she challenges the sardonic cynicism that surrounds discussions of love and strives to restore the full nobility of the possibility of love from a feminist perspective.