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 to...
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Number of Pages: 188
ISBN: 0743456084
ISBN-13: 9780743456081
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Virginia Victoria @vrgnvctr
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Dec 20, 2022
- Answered to What is the best book you read this year?
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Phil Treagus-Evans @philtreagus
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Jun 23, 2019
- Curated in THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOKS ON FEMINISM
This short accessible book is a must-have guide through the social construction of masculinity and femininity and the harms to self, society and community that we all accept in exchange for propping them up. It is sadly prescient and relevant on school shooters, terrorist attacks and the daily violence of rape and sexual violence; theorizing some men’s entitled rage when they cannot pass through the masculinity checkpoints that society expects. This is a book to contextualize the rise of incels, anti-feminist men’s movements and the religion that is misogyny online.