bell hooks on the Root of Male Violence

I recently came across a radio segment published by The New Yorker Radio Hour which interviews the acclaimed feminist thinker bell hooks. The topic discussed between host, David Remnick, and bell hooks is the root of male violence. bell hooks references her 2004 book “The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love”. David Remnick states that the book was “somewhat controversial at the time, among other feminists in particular, because rather than excoriating the worst behavior of men individually, she looks at masculinity as a whole, as a kind of regime that oppresses everybody including men”. They discuss how the recent events involving sexual assault and harassment are not just outliers or isolated problems, but really manifestations of the larger systemic problem of toxic masculinity and damaging patriarchal practices.

Listen to the full interview here:

http://www.wnyc.org/story/bell-hooks-roots-male-violence-against-women/