Rebecca Solnit's essay ' Men Explain Things to Me' has become a touchstone of the feminist movement inspired the term 'mansplaining' & established Solnit as one of the leading feminist thinkers of our time
- one who has inspired everyone from radical activists to Beyonce Knowles Collected here in print for the first time is the essay itself along with the best of Solnit's feminist writings From rape culture to mansplaining from French sex scandals to marriage & the nuclear family from Virginia Woolf to colonialism these essays are a fierce & incisive exploration of the issues that a patriarchal culture will not necessarily acknowledge as 'issues' at all With grace & energy & in the most exquisite & inviting of prose Rebecca Solnit proves herself a vital leading figure of the feminist movement & a radical humane thinker