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    The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
    The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
    The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
    Audiobook6 hours

    The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

    Written by bell hooks

    Narrated by Janina Edwards

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    About this audiobook

    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, with a new introduction by poet Ross Gay.

    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).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateFeb 11, 2020
    ISBN9781797104355
    Author

    bell hooks

    bell hooks, born Gloria Jean Watkins in 1952, was an American author who used lowercase as both an homage to her maternal great-grandmother and an attempt to keep readers’ focus where it belonged: on her work. When she died in 2021, hooks left behind a lifetime of thought that was decades ahead of its time. In the heyday of feminism, when the movement claimed to represent all women equally, hooks revealed in Ain’t I a Woman—written when she was only nineteen—how the specific life experiences of Black women were being marginalized. She never lost this pioneering spirit, bringing it to bear on more than thirty books of literary criticism, children’s fiction, poetry, and autobiography, including Killing Rage: Ending Racism, Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood, Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life, Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work, Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics, Where We Stand: Class Matters, Communion: The Female Search for Love and the New York Times bestseller All About Love: New Visions. A professor of English, African and Afro-American studies, American literature, and women’s studies, hooks taught at USC, Yale, among other institutions, including Berea College in her home state of Kentucky, where the bell hooks center was established to honor her work. Winner of the American Book Award in 1991 for Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics, a 2000 nominee for the NAACP’s Image Award, a 2018 inductee into Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame, and one of Time’s 100 Women of the Year in 2020, hooks left her mark in every field she entered.

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    What our readers think

    Readers find this title to be a powerful and impactful book that challenges traditional gender roles and promotes collective healing from patriarchy. It offers insightful feminist theory and encourages men to be more expressive and emotionally available. The book is described as a work of love, providing a soothing and knowledgeable perspective on the struggles of men and women. It has the potential to transform lives and inspire positive change. Highly recommended for both men and women seeking a more egalitarian society.

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    • 4/5
      Some interesting feminist theory on encouraging men to be more expressive, affectionate, emotionally available and educated. While also critical of historical and current expressions of dominant male culture and behavior.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Excellent book. I learned A LOT! The information is provided in an easy to understand way. I also love the fact that Bell Hooks used examples from movies in pop culture this really helped me understand some of the points.
      Thank you Bell Hooks for educating the masses. Blessings to you, your family and your team!
    • 4/5
      Challenging in ways that force you to think more deeply
    • 5/5
      If you read one book this year, let it be this one!! This book changed me for the better. For a cis woman such as myself this was so important to read, I am recommending this to all the men that are dear to me specifically and to women as well, but i think this book can be so healing and good to read for men.
    • 5/5
      I feel both validated in the progress I've made and like I have so much more to do after reading this book, and that's exactly how I should feel. Ms. Hooks speaks in a very male positive way while never letting men off the hook for the consequences of their actions. I think every man, and everyone who knows a man, should read this book.
    • 5/5
      I wish I had read(listened) to this book 15 years ago. The depth of integrity & wisdom herein, can be a magnificent asset in the evolution of our species from the dead-end of domination to the open sources of cooperation.
    • 5/5
      "Ultimately the men who choose against violence, against death, do so because they want to live fully and well, because they want to know love."
    • 4/5
      Men are so important and just as worthy of love as the rest of us. Love that theres a book addressing them from this loving perspective
    • 5/5
      wow I need therapy lmao can’t wait to reread and annotate
    • 5/5
      Have me a lot to think about and address within myself
    • 5/5
      Simply Prolific. This book is a blueprint for a more sustainable future.
    • 5/5
      Very insightful. Some excellent points made. I learned a great deal.
    • 4/5
      The message is clear that change from males of the new generations will shape us to a stronger more egalitarianism society. The narrative of how we all live isn’t fair for any of as a culture and country we don’t come together and learn to coexist. I recommend this for everyone
    • 5/5
      Amazing, helped me in so many ways. Challenging and stirring
    • 5/5
      Bell Hooks is more needed than ever. Each phrase is a fractal of powerful wisdom folding on itself and leading us to greater and better places.
      A must read for all people that really want to end patriarchy.
    • 5/5
      Don’t fall for the mask of patriarchal masculinity. A more whole human way is possible. Good luck gentlemen.
    • 5/5
      As a heterosexual black man this book left me full of hope, everyday I’m dedicating myself to exercise the Will to Change!

      2 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      I love the topics explored here. However, I cannot give it a higher rating than 4 as I'm already familiar with most of Hooks' arguments. Great book.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      I found this book very challenging. I suppose it was written for the male reader, but it has been deeply impactful for me as a woman. It’s changing the way I view my role as a daughter, sister, future wife and mother.

      4 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This book changed my life. It was utterly refining, sickening sometimes in truth, but the healing I experienced was spiritual transformative.

      4 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      At first i was skeptical i usually prefer to read about men and masculinity from a male author. But Bell Hooks has more than wowed me with this one. Learned a ton, highly recommend this book to both men and women looking for collective healing from Patriachy

      3 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      It has been such a relief to read a book by a feminist author who takes so much time and energy to truly understand what it is to grow from a boy to a man in our patriarchal societies. bell's words resonate within me as I go through the pain and joy of rediscovering myself as a whole masculine and feminine being. To me, this book is a work of love.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      The author is very knowledgeable on the strife of men and women and was able to convey the message as soothingly as possible. Some parts could definitely spark anger, but with thorough explanation and the narrator's tone, I appreciated every word.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I don't know if I've ever been brought to tears so much in one book. This has made a huge impact on my life (and I hope it continues to do so). If you're a man that's wanting change in your life, read this.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Willing to revisit several times. Great book to challenge masculinity and your role/identity/thinking/emotion/etc around it. A great guide towards becoming emotionally whole.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Men, please read. Everyone, please read. This is an important gift of scholarship, love, and generosity from Bell Hooks. I’m buying six copies for my family this holiday season.

      1 person found this helpful