Men Explain Things to Me
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Narrated by:
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Lucy Christian Bell
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By:
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Rebecca Solnit
About this listen
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 LtdCritic Reviews
"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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- Anonymous User
- 13-12-2017
Great listen
Such good commentary on a number of issues affecting women! Really good listen and pretty educational providing ideas on several social issues.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-03-2018
Very interesting- must read
Really good book! It is really fact / stat heavy so it’s an intense listen and you need to pay attention. But covers very important topics so a must read for me.
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- Samantha
- 04-01-2022
Mostly enraging in the way you want it to be
Even though, at times, there was some gratuitous braggadocio - particularly towards the end - I mostly found this enlightening and enraging. I was a little late to the table in reading this one, since it was released in 2014, and as such, some of the revelations were a touch outdated, they were still relevant. In some cases, it made me realise how long some conversation or another had been receiving public attention. Eight years on and what has been done about these issues? Nothing. Why? Capitalism. That's why.
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- Sonja
- 30-10-2018
18 minutes in and I'm over it
It appears this book is all about gender bashing. Yawn. While it no doubt goes on to prove that point, I'm not interested in a diatribe of condescension. It's the pot calling the kettle black in the first 18 minutes and I'm already over it. The smarmy narration suits the subject matter.
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- Anonymous User
- 26-09-2023
better as an online essay
first chapter = ok. the rest of the book she goes on these bizarre rants that often are not even related to feminism, such as European banks preying on Africa.
like, why did I buy this book?
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