La volonté de changer

If for many men, feminism is a women’s issue, Bell Hooks sets out here to demonstrate the opposite. Patriarchal culture requires men to make sacrifices in order to become ‘real men’. Despite the advantages and the role of first choice they enjoy, they have to do violence to themselves and their loved ones in order to become dominant, thereby mutilating their emotional life. La volonté de changer is one of the first feminist books to clearly address the issue of masculinity. By addressing the most common concerns of men, from fear of intimacy to unhappiness in love, to the injunction to work, to masculinity and sexual performance, Bell Hooks provides a vivid insight into what a liberated, and therefore feminist, masculinity might look like.