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Men Explain Things to Me

Written by: Rebecca Solnit
Narrated by: Lucy Christian Bell
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Publisher's Summary

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 Beyonce 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.
©2014 Rebecca Solnit (P)2014 Audible Ltd
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"Exceptional… The feminist debate has once again exploded into the mainstream over the last few years, and this collection marks Solnit out as among the most thoughtful of many energetic writers leading it" (Jessica Abrahams in Prospect)
"Slim but trenchant collection of essays… As a collection it is an eloquent reminder that we still have some way to go when it comes to speaking of the issues she raises. She writes forcefully about the case of Domonique Strauss-Kahn. And yet this is not a gloomy book" (Erica Wagner in The Financial Times)
'[Rebecca] is not one of the most important female essayists of her generation. She is one of the most important essayists of her generation." (Stuart Kelly in the Scotland on Sunday )

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Modern era discrimination towards women

Book is full of myriad of essay that makes you aware of lot of issues that women are subjected because of being a woman. I hope someday women attain what they're trying to achieve by fair means and men accept it as a progress not the other way around. Sometimes I feel like inevitable war between these two prominent genders is imminent for domination of society. sometimes I feel like egalitarian society is fantasy but I am ready what future withholds for the human species. I am sure society is progressing to something which neither prominent gender can anticipate.

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