The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

Written by:
Bell Hooks
Narrated by:
Janina Edwards

Unabridged Audiobook

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Book
28
Narrator
8
Release Date
February 2020
Duration
6 hours 6 minutes
Summary
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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Matthew S.

Absolutely fantastic, got me into feminism. I disagree with 2 ideas some people seem to get from the book: getting men in touch with their emotions necessarily leads to the advancement of feminist ideas in society--men have historically been in touch with their emotions (see romanticism, the romantic period) and there was still plenty of patriarchy. And 2: I get uneasy about some of the things she says about young boys p--ises and how it affects family dynamics.

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Anonymous

Amazing book!!!, as a man living in this man's world :-( . This book really opened my eyes to question the status quo of the patriarchal society. Great read I plan to share it with many of my male friends.

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Lelia “.

I love this book so much. I ordered the book version. This book is a beautiful well written mind reader. Fun fact: the hard cover is $$$ and the soft cover is $ I was blown away. I bought the soft cover. The narrator did an exquisite job of narrating this book. She felt like the author

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Dan V.

Amazing and deep look at masculinity and how the tools that are used by patriarchal society are hurting both women and men deeply. An absolute must read.

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