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Solnit, Rebecca.
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Feminism -- Essays.
Feminists -- United States -- Essays.
Sex differences (Psychology)
Women -- Violence against.
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Solnit, Rebecca.
Feminism -- Essays.
Feminists -- United States -- Essays.
Sex differences (Psychology)
Women -- Violence against.
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The mother of all questions / Rebecca Solnit ; images by Paz de la Calzada.
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Solnit, Rebecca.
Haymarket Books, 2017.
Call #:
305
.42
S688mo
Subjects
Feminism -- Essays.
Feminists -- United States -- Essays.
Sex differences (Psychology)
Women -- Violence against.
ISBN:
9781608467402 (pbk.)
Description:
176 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Notes:
"Further feminist essays from the author of Men Explain Things to Me"--Cover.
Contents:
Introduction -- The mother of all questions -- Silence is broken. A short history of silence ; An insurrectionary year ; Feminism: the men arrive ; One year after seven deaths ; The short happy recent history of the rape joke -- Breaking the story. Escape from the five-million-year-old suburb ; The pigeonholes when the doves have flown ; 80 books no woman should read ; Men explain Lolita to me ; The case of the missing perpetrator ; Giantess.
Summary:
In this collection of essays, Solnit offers a timely commentary on gender and feminism. Her subjects include women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the recent history of rape jokes, and much more. American 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; 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.
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