![]() ![]() I also enjoyed and admired the personal touch that hooks brings.I found many sections of the book to be emotionally moving and resonant with my lived experience hooks demonstrates an excellent understanding of how patriarchal oppression operates in the lives of modern men. Her prose is straightforward and passionate, intellectually complex without becoming inscrutable. This is my first time reading hooks, and right off the bat I was impressed with her writing. ![]() ![]() ![]() Covering a range of topics––including the nature of male identity, violence, sexuality, professional life, and pop culture––hooks presents keen critiques of modern male dysfunction as well as hopeful visions for new kinds of masculinity that can escape and reconfigure outdated models of manhood. They must be able to choose life over death. “To know love, men must be able to let go the will to dominate. “Masses of men have not even begun to look at the ways that patriarchy keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving,” hooks writes. Bell hook’s The Will to Changeis a work of feminist philosophy that seeks to articulate and subvert the patriarchal constraints that make it difficult for men to give and receive love. ![]()
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