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ISBN-10: 0743456084
ISBN-13: 9780743456081
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Publish Date: 12/01/2004
Dimensions: 8.10" L, 5.30" W, 0.60" H

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

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Overview

From the New York Times bestselling author of All About Love, a brave and astonishing work that challenges patriarchal culture and encourages men to reclaim the best part of themselves.

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. But toxic masculinity punishes those fundamental emotions, and it’s so deeply ingrained in our society that it’s hard for men to not comply–but hooks wants to help change that.

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.

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Publishers Weekly A fierce...denunciation of patriarchy and a clarion call to the uncommitted to align themselves with visionary radical feminism.
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Details

ISBN-10: 0743456084
ISBN-13: 9780743456081
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Publish Date: 12/01/2004
Dimensions: 8.10" L, 5.30" W, 0.60" H
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