The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

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.

InThe 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 arewhatever their age, marital status, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. But toxic masculinity punishes those fundamental emotions, and its so deeply ingrained in our society that its hard for men to not complybut 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 themselvesand 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 Changeis designed to help men reclaim the best part of themselves.