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 linity-and-love-by-bell-hooks-reading-group/
SUMMARY:The Will To Change: Men\, Masculinity\, And Love by bell hooks Read
 ing Group
DESCRIPTION:\n\nOverview\n\nA online Reading Group open to all therapeutic 
 practitioners at any stage of training or practice.\nLearning to wear a ma
 sk (that word already embedded in the term “masculinity”) is the first
  lesson in patriarchal masculinity that a boy learns. He learns that his c
 ore feelings cannot be expressed if they do not conform to the acceptable 
 behaviors sexism defines as male. Asked to give up the true self in order 
 to realize the patriarchal ideal\, boys learn self-betrayal early and are 
 rewarded for these acts of soul murder.\n― **bell hooks\,** **The Will T
 o Change: Men\, Masculinity\, and Love**\n\nThis online Reading Group will
  closely and whole heartedly engage with bell hook’s seminal feminist te
 xt The Will To Change: Men\, Masculinity and Love (2004) **over three mont
 hly** meetings from **May** to **July 2025**. As conversations about mascu
 linity/ies – albeit conversations that are not new to feminism – resur
 face in the public media in response to Netflix’s Adolescence\, hooks’
  work continues to be an urgent and challenging call for us to engage with
  the ways patriarchy impacts all genders. The Will To Change invites us to
  look at patriarchy’s specific impact upon boys and men\, and by extensi
 on to reevaluate our therapeutic response-abilities towards dismantling th
 e limiting boundaries of normative masculinity/ies in favour of broader\, 
 more expansive possibilities of what it means to live as a man.\n\nThis Re
 ading Group is specific to therapeutic practitioners at any stage of train
 ing or practice.\n\n**Practicalities:**\n\nStarting in **May 2025**\, we w
 ill meet together on Zoom on the **last Friday of the month** from **3.30p
 m – 5pm GMT**. Numbers will be limited to enable our shared discussion. 
 We ask for a joining fee of £21.00 that **covers all three meetings** to 
 support the ongoing work and commitments of the Feminist Therapy Network. 
 A CPD certificate of completion can be provided upon request.\n\nThrough r
 eading and discussing a cluster of chapters together each month over three
  meetings\, we will undertake age-old practices of communal learning\, cul
 tivating collective wisdom\, building solidarities and engaging the femini
 st imagination. To do so requires a commitment to each other. To support o
 ur community of inquiry and to share the labour of learning together\, the
  request is for Zoom screens to be on during our time together\, whenever 
 possible. Please ensure you will be able to join and participate from a st
 able physical place (not in transit).\n\nPlease familiarise yourself with 
 the FTN's Ethos and Ali Phipps' Principles for a Feminist Classroom before
  joining this Reading Group as these will inform how our time together is 
 held and interacted with. If it your first time joining a reading group\, 
 we recommend visiting the FTN’s suggested Reading Group guidelines here.
 \n\n**Dates:**\n\nThe dates we will be gathering together are between 3.30
 pm – 5pm on:\n\nFriday May 30th (Chapters 1 – 3)\n\nFriday June 27th (
 Chapters 4 - 7)\n\nFriday July 25th (Chapters 8 - 11)\n\nThe Zoom link to 
 join will be sent to you via email the day prior.\n\n**Please read all the
  information\, including the FAQ's before signing up to join.** If you hav
 e any further questions\, email: feministtherapynetwork@protonmail.com .
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CATEGORIES:Book Club
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