Tag archives: nonfiction

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

by bell hooks

Perplexing generalisations mixed with solid if not repetitive analyses of masculinity in the wake of centuries of patriarchal cultural propaganda. hooks calls for feminist blueprints for transforming masculinity including shedding the model of domination that frames all relationships as power struggles, extricating oneself from violently fragile identities yoked … Read more

Designing Regenerative Food Systems: And Why We Need Them Now

by Marina O’Connell

Compiles an array of transformative food system models and practices. The abundance of overlapping information does make it difficult to not include some repetition, and it’s not free of periodic political mildness. It’s an admirable synthesis of constellating ideas to offset greenhouse gas emissions and global warming, climate … Read more

Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back

by Julia Serano

There are a lot of training wheels and an unnecessary, iterative spelling out of harmful stereotypes particularly in chapter 7, but also some solid analogies and models, especially about unwanted attention (being marked as a spectacle), derivatization (being flattened to a projected single dimension), stigma, and contagion.