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 He’s my enemy. My brother’s rival. The very man I am supposed to hate.
I’m back here in the city that ruined me, ready to take revenge and on a mission to destroy him and protect my family, while he’s here, watching me with intensity like never seen before.
He’s older than me. He’s a villain in a dark suit.
He doesn’t know that I am linked to his upcoming demise but this forbidden deception will play a part in wrecking both our lives.
Ruining us as we discover the secrets that will make us walk away from one another.
No one can ever stand in a battlefield and walk away unscathed.
He’s my rival, so why is his name making me weak?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. A brave and astonishing work, The Will to Change is designed to help men reclaim the best part of themselves.
