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Nan Hathaway, Book Donation Sponsor & Coordinator, chooses our books each year. Thank You Nan!
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Men Explain Things to Me
By Rebecca Solnit
Solnit tackles big themes of gender and power in these accessible essays. Honest and full of wit, this is an integral read that furthers the conversation on feminism and contemporary society.
–San Francisco Chronicle Top Shelf
In her comic, scathing and hard-hitting essay “Men Explain Things to Me,” Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She writes about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don’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 note – because the ultimate problem is the silencing of women who have something to say, including those saying things like, “He’s trying to kill me.”
This updated edition of the book features that now-classic essay as well as Solnit’s recent essay on the remarkable feminist conversation that arose in the wake of the 2014 Isla Vista killings and Anita Hill’s testimony against Clarence Thomas, in the 1991 Senate hearing on his Supreme Court nomination.
Rebecca Solnit is a writer, historian, and activist and the author of sixteen books about environment, landscape, community, art, politics, hope, and memory, including Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities; The Faraway Nearby; A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster; A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Wanderlust: A History of Walking; and River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a contributing editor to Harper’s and a frequent contributor to the Guardian newspaper.