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La volonté de changer

bell hooks

bell hooks examines what masculine ideals do to men’s emotional lives. Intimacy, work and sexual expectations run through this feminist essay, published in French by Divergences in 2021 in Alex Taillard’s translation.

Why it belongs here

What happens to feelings when someone has learned to swallow them? The book extends the discussion in Les Couilles sur la table through a sustained argument about masculinities.

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Choose it when you want time with a developed written argument. The French profile includes selected readers’ differing responses to its treatment of male suffering and violence; this English introduction does not reproduce those reviews.

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