Rebecca Solnit

Men Explain Things to Me

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Rebecca Solnit's essay 'Men Explain Things to Me' has become a touchstone of the feminist movement, inspired the term 'mansplaining', and established Solnit as one of the leading feminist thinkers of our time — one who has inspired everyone from radical activists to Beyonc, Knowles. Collected here in print for the first time is the essay itself, along with the best of Solnit's feminist writings.From rape culture to mansplaining, from French sex scandals to marriage and the nuclear family, from Virginia Woolf to colonialism, these essays are a fierce and incisive exploration of the issues that a patriarchal culture will not necessarily acknowledge as 'issues' at all. With grace and energy, and in the most exquisite and inviting of prose, Rebecca Solnit proves herself a vital leading figure of the feminist movement and a radical, humane thinker.
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100 printed pages
Publication year
2014
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    🙈Lost On Me
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    Desde el principio quise dejarlo a un lado ya que no son mi tipo de lecturas. Un buen libro para iniciarse en el feminismo ya que te muestra datos e historias reales que sirven para entender de donde viene el punto de vista de la autora.

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  • Widyahas quoted5 years ago
    There’s more that we need to be liberated from: maybe a system that prizes competition and ruthlessness and short-term thinking and rugged individualism, a system that serves environmental destruction and limitless consumption so well—that arrangement you can call capitalism.
  • Dani CyChas quoted3 years ago
    More than twenty years ago, Susan Faludi published a milestone of a book called Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women.
  • ninahas quotedlast year
    It takes time. There are milestones, but so many people are traveling along that road at their own pace, and some come along later, and others are trying to stop everyone who’s moving forward, and a few are marching backward or are confused about what direction they should go in. Even in our own lives we regress, fail, continue, try again, get lost, and sometimes make a great leap, find what we didn’t know we were looking for, and yet continue to contain contradictions for generations.

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