Hooks argues in the essay, "Love as the Practice of Freedom," that a "love ethic" may be the agent of empowerment for a Black community striving for social change. What do you think? Is this a practical approach? A necessary way of thinking? Visionary? Would you put it into practice in your own life?

How does the author use the character of the nurse to develop the social issue of gender inequality? the nurse’s willingness to take care of nora when nora was little demonstrates a woman’s ability to do difficult work. the nurse’s need to give up a child in order to have a job demonstrates a woman’s inability to support herself. the fact that the nurse’s child wrote to her as a young girl and as an adult demonstrates a woman’s ability to keep friends forever. the nurse’s assurance to nora that her children ask for her often demonstrates women’s role in health care.