The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

men, masculinity, and love.

188 pages

English language

Published Aug. 20, 2003 by Atria Books.

ISBN:
978-0-7434-5607-4
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OCLC Number:
53930053

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"Men cannot change if there are no blueprints for change. Men cannot love if they are not taught the art of loving. Love is vital to maleness, to the spiritual and emotional wholeness men seek." —bell hooks

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 …

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The Will to Change: hacia la alianza sin dominación, en todos los frentes.

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Una interesante y necesaria reflexión sobre el papel del hombre en el patriarcado y la necesidad de un nuevo tipo de masculinidad para el progreso de la lucha por los derechos humanos. Muchos de los conceptos e ideas que se presentan en el libro pueden serle familiares a le lectore interesade en el ensayo feminista y antiracista, pero se presentan aquí de una manera clara, sucinta y, a veces, devastadora.

Como persona trans, el prisma con el que bell hooks analiza la socialización masculina, las expectativas asociadas al género y los efectos que ambos tienen en la psique masculina me ha llevado a una reflexión más profunda sobre varios aspectos de mi identidad. Su enfoque, que se aleja de la visión de masculinidad como algo insalvable y únicamente negativo, es refrescante y tiende una mano a todas aquellas personas que sufren y se identifican con la masculinidad sin pretender hacer …

The Will To Change

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There's a lot here that I have direct experience with or is adjacent to my experiences, and the cutting descriptions help crystallise my thoughts on masculinities and the issues around them, and how it relates to feminism. Well worth reading, particularly if you're struggling with your own masculinity. Sometimes it felt a little vague or hopeful without focus, which is probably useful for some people, but seemed a distraction to me.

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Subjects

  • Masculinity
  • Men -- Identity
  • Self-esteem in men
  • Men -- Psychology
  • Sex role
  • Intimacy (Psychology)