Men Explain Things to Me

Men Explain Things to Me

In her comic, scathing essay â€œMen Explain Things to Me,â€ Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women donâ€™t, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, airing some of her own hilariously awful encounters.

She ends on a serious noteâ€” because the ultimate problem is the silencing of women who have something to say, including those saying things like, â€œHeâ€™s trying to kill me!â€

This book features that now-classic essay with six perfect complements, including an examination of the great feminist writer Virginia Woolf â€™s embrace of mystery, of not knowing, of doubt and ambiguity, a highly original inquiry into marriage equality, and a terrifying survey of the scope of contemporary violence against women.
Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of eighteen or so books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including the booksÂ Men Explain Things to MeÂ andÂ Hope in the Dark, both also with Haymarket; a trilogy of atlases of American cities;Â The Faraway Nearby;Â A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster;Â A Field Guide to Getting Lost;Â Wanderlust: A History of Walking; andÂ River of Shadows, Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild WestÂ (for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at Harper's and a regular contributor to the Guardian.
Country USA
Manufacturer Haymarket Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2020-02-13
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Haymarket Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2020-02-13
Format	Kindle eBook