Men explain things to me /

Men explain things to me /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Solnit, Rebecca, author.
Imprint:	Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, [2014]
Description:	130 pages ; 20 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Feminism. Sex differences (Psychology) Women -- Violence against. Sexism Feminism. Sex differences (Psychology) Women -- Violence against.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10043379

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Other authors / contributors:	Fernandez, Ana Teresa, photographer.
ISBN:	9781608463862 (paperback) 1608463869 (paperback)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.
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"--

Table of 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 the Threat: What Marriage Equality Really Means
Grandmother Spider
Woolf's Darkness: Embracing the Inexplicable
Pandora's Box and the Volunteer Police Force
Image Credits
Acknowledgments