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The Will to Change

Men, Masculinity, and Love

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The Will to Change

By: bell hooks, Ross Gay
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
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From New York Times bestselling author, feminist pioneer, and cultural icon bell hooks, a timelessly necessary treatise on how patriarchy and toxic masculinity hurts us all.

Feminist writing did not tell us about the deep inner misery of men.

Everyone needs to love and be loved—including men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways in which patriarchal culture keeps them from understanding themselves. In The Will to Change, bell hooks provides a compassionate guide for men of all ages and identities to understand how to be in touch with their feelings, and how to express versus repress the emotions that are a fundamental part of who we are.

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. The Will to Change “creates space for men to acknowledge their traumas and heal—not only for their sake, but for the sake of everyone in their lives” (BuzzFeed).

©2003 Gloria Watkins (P)2020 Simon & Schuster Audio Anthropology Gender Studies Social Sciences Emotions Discrimination

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One of the few books that address masculinity from a feminist perspective. Easy to read and relatable!

Amazing read!

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Beautifully written & well spoken.

This is something for everyone not just men as some of the recommendations suggest.

Illuminating and affirming the stuggles I see in society and my own life concerning the position of men, their masculinty and relation to women.

There is solution that seems so simple yet rarely practiced.

Highly recommend

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What an amazing book by Bell Hooks. I only wish I heard these words many years ago.

This books provides a history of male behaviour and past traumas. Then she tells us how we might look at things and change our behaviour in order to be better men, good men and more in tune with our emotions, selves and others around us.

Can not recommend this enough.

Exceptional and required

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Core arguments excellent & still what we need to know (some fuzzy thinking in details).

Excellent despite its limitations.

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fantastic commentary on the intricacies of the emotional worlds of men and how all people can contribute to the emotional wellbeing of all people - love being, in itself, a revolutionary act!

just exquisite!

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Well written by bell hooks. Think every women should read this book. Wish I read it sooner.

Great book

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This book changed and healed me deeply. I think probably every man should read it and try to internalise its lessons.

Powerful and life-changing

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This book lays out the major problem standing in the way of thinking more freely and lovingly about ourselves: white supremecist capitalist patriarchy. It makes clear that masculinity is not synonymous with patriarchy. Following on from the liberation and right to voice and autonomy that feminism brought women, feminism needs to enter into a new stage: one in which we celebrate and explore masculinity in its wide-spanning variety of forms, and create safe, loving spaces, where men can feel, express and be, as well as heal from the ways in which patriarchy has taught them to silence, repress and compartmentalise their selves. This book has encouraged me to turn to live as a strategy, and to remember that women, men and people of all genders need eachother. Let's leave no one behind!

A Book That Should Be Read By Everyone

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bell hooks offers amazing insights about the importance of providing a loving space for boys and men so we can all heal from patriarchy. It’s a cis-heterormative language that can be easily translated to more queer understandings (bell was not gender critical, so there is space for dialogue). A book everyone should read at least once in their lives ♥️

Powerful tool to think about masculinity

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Bell can do little wrong in my eyes, this is an important text nearly 20 years on. I've been waiting for more of bells texts to go up, please put more of Bells work on audio!!

Poetic, accessible, political

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