Book HackMen Explain Things to MeBy Rebecca Solnit
In a Nutshell
In this 2014 essay collection, American writer Rebecca Solnit reflects on feminist and intersectional topics, including violence against women, rape culture, and reproductive rights.
Favorite Quote
Most women fight wars on two fronts, one for whatever the putative topic is and one simply for the right to speak, to have ideas, to be acknowledged to be in possession of facts and truths, to have value, to be a human being.
Rebecca Solnit
Introduction
The term 'mansplaining' – when a man feels qualified to explain a subject to a woman regardless of his expertise – passed into common use in 2008, inspired by Rebecca Solnit's essay of the same year titled Men Explain Things to Me.
Published in 2014, this collection consists of seven essays by Solnit that explore themes relating to feminism and patriarchal systems.
The thread running through this collection is the systemic suppression of women's basic humanity.
Environmentalism, LGBTQ+ rights, and colonialism are also invoked in this work of intersectional feminist ideas.
Here are the 3 key insights from this Hack
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