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Men explain things to me / Rebecca Solnit ; images by Ana Teresa Fernandez.

Title
Men explain things to me / Rebecca Solnit ; images by Ana Teresa Fernandez.
Author
Solnit, Rebecca.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, [2014]

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Fernandez, Ana Teresa, 1980-
Description
130 pages; 20 cm
Summary
"In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," 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 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 book features that now-classic essay with six perfect complements, including an examination of the great feminist writer Virginia Woolf '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"--
Subject
  • Feminism
  • Sex differences (Psychology)
  • Women > Violence against
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Human Rights
  • Sexism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Men explain things to me -- The longest war -- Worlds collide in a luxury suite : some thoughts on the IMF, global injustice, and a stranger on a train -- In praise of threat : what marriage equality really means -- Grandmother spider -- Woolf's darkness : embracing the inexplicable -- Pandora's box and the volunteer police force.
ISBN
  • 9781608463862 (paperback)
  • 1608463869 (paperback)
  • 9781608464968
  • 1608464962
LCCN
^^2014008682
OCLC
  • 859046490
  • SCSB-12851940
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library