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Welcome to the Gotham Non-fiction Book Club! If you find yourself questioning established norms and seeking perspectives that challenge the mainstream, you've found your community.
Each reading is an invitation to dissect, discuss, and debate, fostering a community of like-minded individuals who are passionate about challenging and reshaping the narratives that surround us.
We usually meet once every month to give enough time for members to read each book. We also ask members to pitch in book ideas for the rest of us to read. Each session, the host brings a list of questions for everyone to reflect and discuss about the book.
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See all- "The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love" by bell hooksThe Local NY, Queens, NY
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 touch with their feelings, from loving.
In The Will to Change, bell hooks gets to the heart of the matter and shows men how to express the emotions that are a fundamental part of who they are—whatever their age, marital status, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. But toxic masculinity punishes those fundamental emotions, and it’s so deeply ingrained in our society that it’s hard for men to not comply - but hooks wants to help change that.
With trademark candor and fierce intelligence, hooks addresses the most common concerns of men, such as fear of intimacy and loss of their patriarchal place in society, in new and challenging ways. She believes men can find the way to spiritual unity by getting back in touch with the emotionally open part of themselves—and lay claim to the rich and rewarding inner lives that have historically been the exclusive province of women. A brave and astonishing work, The Will to Change is designed to help men reclaim the best part of themselves.
Support your local bookstore in Queens:
Bookshop.org
Astoria Bookshop (Astoria)
Topos Bookstore (Ridgewood)
The World's Borough Bookstore (Jackson Heights)
Kew & Willow Books (Kew Gardens)
Book Culture (Long Island City)
