Review: The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by Bell Hooks My rating: 5 of 5 stars hooks offers a compelling critique about how masculinity is constructed in American culture and malformed due to the systemic effects of patriarchy. However, because no one is willing to name patriarchy's negative effects on how we conceive of manhood, it inevitably denies men a fuller and more meaningful sense of masculinity. She traces out some of the ways in which this impacts different genders and sexualities, highlighting how many across both spectrums uphold a patriarchal and often, toxic masculinity regardless of their desire to do so since we have so few examples and scripts to work from otherwise. Like much of her other work, hooks grounds this in her own experiences to illustrate how she has come to the topic and experiences it within her own personal history. With her, I always find this enhances the experience as she's never using her ide