Men Explain Things to Me: And Other Essays

Men Explain Things to Me: And Other Essays

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2014 · 英語 · Kindle · 49 個版本
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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 Beyoncé 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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格式 Kindle
頁數 101 頁
語言 英語
已出版 Nov 6, 2014
出版商 Granta Books
ISBN-10 1783780800
ISBN-13 9781783780808

This went downhill really fast

May 8th 2025

Minus the essay on Woolf this was a great collection

January 15th 2024

This book is very obviously written by a feminist of an older generation. All of the points that she makes are pointed and well argued and none of them ring untrue, but they come across in a way that makes it sound like her struggle is the ultimate and most important one. Also, this is very high-brow. Definitely not the most accessible written feminist text. Be prepared for some things to go over your head, if you're not used to moving in 'high-class society', like I'm not. The writer comes across very cultured, both positive and negative sides of that.Should this have been written? Definitely. Would somebody else have put it better? I do think so. Maybe a newer, better understandable feminist should take a crack at these subjects, and her ideas towards them. (I mean, what is with Rebecca's constant need to reassure any male readers that she knows there are good men too. Good men don't need you to cater to that. And it ruins the flow of the essay.)Honestly, read this. It will do you good. Then pick up 'I Hate Men,' to balance it out.

December 16th 2021
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