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Rebecca Solnit
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American writer and activist known for essays and books on feminism, the environment, politics, place, and art.
Biography
Rebecca Solnit (born 1961) is an American writer and activist who has written on feminism, the environment, politics, place, and art. She is the author of seventeen books and is known for essays and nonfiction work across those subjects.
Her books include River of Shadows, which won the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism; A Paradise Built in Hell, originally published in 2009 and revised in 2020, which charts altruistic community responses to disaster; The Faraway Nearby, a memoir published in 2013; and Men Explain Things to Me, a collection of essays on feminism and women's writing first published in 2014.
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Books by Rebecca Solnit
Men Explain Things To Me
In the title essay of Men Explain Things to Me, Solnit takes on conversations in which men wrongly assume they know things and women do not, recounting comic, scathing and "hilariously awful" encounters and warning that the ultimate problem is the silencing of women, including those saying, "He's trying to kill me!" The book pairs that now-classic essay with six complements, including an examination of Virginia Woolf's embrace of mystery, an inquiry into marriage equality, and a survey of contemporary violence against women.