Reviews tagging 'War'

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks

5 reviews

roxanne_blythe's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

This book really does explain men masculinity, and love. I feel like the intended audience is women, not that men don’t need to read this, but I feel like it was directed towards feminists. 

The main messaging is pretty decent. There are some points that I don’t fully agree with specially the blame that’s kind of placed on mothers for upholding the patriarchy. Not that they should be blameless, but I feel like the way that  bell hooks writes about fathers is very different from the way that she talks about mothers. 

Maybe I will need to revisit those points but for now I just feel like there’s not a lot of nuance when it comes to patriarchal mothers

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, War, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexism, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

notsosecrethistory's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: War, Sexual violence, Misogyny, Addiction, Incest, Racism, Violence, and Rape

itszosia's review against another edition

challenging inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual violence, Child abuse, Addiction, Sexism, Classism, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, War, Emotional abuse, Grief, Homophobia, and Alcoholism

bellegrant's review against another edition

hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

It was a bit repetitive ( some topics are mentioned more than once with almost the exact same wording ) but other than that, this was so enlightening. This lifted such a heavy weight from my chest, it made me rethink everything i know and think about men. It definitely made me more forgiving of the men around me. I would recommend this to anyone.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Sexual harassment, Rape, and War

zombiezami's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative fast-paced

4.0

This book was short, sweet, and gave me a lot to think about. I liked how emotional it was overall. The book was strongest in the places where hooks described her own experiences. Because there aren't citations, other than mentions of book titles, it was sometimes hard to know where the boundaries were between her opinions and data. Also, some points haven't aged well, specifically with how the author discusses gender in binary terms. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism and Misogyny

Moderate: Incest, Ableism, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Pedophilia

Minor: Suicide, Physical abuse, Medical content, Infidelity, Violence, Homophobia, War, Addiction, and Murder