bell hooks the will to change men masculinity and love

I’m not a book promoter, nor do I derive any commission from this exercise I take note of this book because it has so thoroughly spoken to my heart and soul, and has so delightfully (and with a distinct amount of motivational discomfort) spoken to the ideas which I have been expressing for many years in my men’s emotional wellness work. I have attached some quotes from The Will To Change, to hopefully encourage you to read the book. I would hardily recommend it to everyone I meet who cares about healthy communication between men and women, and men and other men. This is a book that has joined in my mind a few books* that have had an overwhelming impact on my way of viewing the world. There is hardly a single wasted sentence in the book it is an incredibly tight, cogent discussion. She, in much clearer and more articulate writing than I’ve heretofore been able to manifest, delineates the nature of the patriarchy, notes that men and women are equally encased by its dictates and equally promote its demands, and notes the ways in which men are stopped from expressing their own emotional angst by the discomfort their female partners and male friends feel when they begin to talk about those deeper emotions. The book I’m referring to is The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity, Love, by bell hooks. In the last couple of days, I have been reading a book which “blew my socks off” with incisive, clear-eyed, brilliant, cut-to-the-chase analysis of patriarchy and men’s discomfort with their own feelings, which is a subject that I talk a lot about. Jeffries, Executive Director, Mariposa Men’s Wellness Institute

Bell hooks the will to change men masculinity and love