Men Explain Things to Me


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Description

A landmark essay that went viral, inspired the word "mansplaining," and prompted fierce arguments.

Author: Rebecca Solnit
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 06/25/2019
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9781642590982
ISBN10: 1642590983
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory
- Humor | Form | Essays
- Social Science | Women's Studies

About the Author

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 books Men Explain Things to Me and Hope in the Dark, both also with Haymarket; a trilogy of atlases of American cities; 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 (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.