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The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

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  • Dec 30, 2003
  • #Feminism #Gender
bell hooks
@bellhooks
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Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways that patriarchal culture keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in to... Show More

Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways that patriarchal culture keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving. In The Will to Change, bell hooks gets to the heart of the matter and shows men how to express the emotions that are a fundamental part of who they are -- whatever their age, marital status, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. With trademark candor and fierce intelligence, hooks addresses the most common concerns of men, such as fear of intimacy and loss of their patriarchal place in society, in new and challenging ways. She believes men can find the way to spiritual unity by getting back in touch with the emotionally open part of themselves -- and lay claim to the rich and rewarding inner lives that have historically been the exclusive province of women. A brave and astonishing work, The Will to Change is designed to help men reclaim the best part of themselves

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Number of Pages: 188

ISBN: 0743456084

ISBN-13: 9780743456081

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Virginia Victoria @vrgnvctr · Dec 20, 2022
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Phil Treagus-Evans @philtreagus · Jun 23, 2019
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This short accessible book is a must-have guide through the social construction of masculinity and femininity and the harms to self, society and community that we all accept in exchange for propping them up. It is sadly prescient and relevant on school shooters, terrorist attacks and the daily violence of rape and sexual violence; theorizing some men’s entitled rage when they cannot pass through the masculinity checkpoints that society expects. This is a book to contextualize the rise of incels, anti-feminist men’s movements and the religion that is misogyny online.
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