Men Explain Things To Me Author:Rebecca Solnit, Ana Teresa Fernandez (Illustrator) 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 hilariousl... more »y awful encounters.
This updated edition with two new essays of this national bestseller book features that now-classic essay as well as "#YesAllWomen," an essay written in response to 2014 Isla Vista killings and the grassroots movement that arose with it to end violence against women and misogyny, and the essay "Cassandra Syndrome."
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 threat: what marriage equality really means --
Grandmother spider --
Woolf's darkness: embracing the inexplicable --
Cassandra among the creeps --
YesAllWomen: feminists rewrite the story --
Pandora's box and the volunteer police force« less