Men Explain Things to Me
eBook - 2014
The National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author delivers a collection of essays that serve as the perfect “antidote to mansplaining” (The Stranger). 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 wit...h six perfect complements, including an examination of the great feminist writer Virginia Woolf’s embrace of mystery, of not knowing,...
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Haymarket Books
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- English
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- Overdrive Resource Page
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- Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
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File Size | 457 MB |
ISBN | 9781608464579 |
Release Date | 4/14/2014 |
Kindle Book | |
ASIN | B00IWGQ8PU |
Release Date | 4/14/2014 |
OverDrive Read eBook | |
File Size | 280 MB |
ISBN | 9781608464579 |
Release Date | 4/14/2014 |