A Reflection: The Will to Change by bell hooks

I have heard of patriarchy since I was a child, but bell hooks&rsquo; book mapped that word onto my own experience. It has been an invisible force hollowing me out. Its agents have been family, friends, and media - all promoting its myths and enforcing its standards. It begins with shame and humour - shame for the uninitated, humour for the initiated. It hollows out boys into good little soliders…