Men Explain Things to Me

130 pages

English language

Published May 20, 2014 by Haymarket Books.

ISBN:
978-1-60846-386-2
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OCLC Number:
859046490

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4 stars (2 reviews)

"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"--

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3 stars

Este libro contiene siete artículos de la escritora Rebeca Solnit. El primero es el que da título a la colección "Los hombres me explican cosas". Los artículos hablan sobre diversos temas relacionados con el feminismos. Algunos están muy bien pero otros son alg aburridos y/ dispersos ( no pude terminar el de "Woolf's Darkness" ) Otro aspecto que no me ha convencido es que es muy "usacentríco" normal ( o no) al ser una escritora de Estados Unidos. Eso me hacía alejarme un poco. Tampoco es que si eres feminista y tienes lecturas y reflexiones sobre estos temas te vaya a descubrir nada nuevo. En general me ha decepcionado un poco ya que esperaba más por la fama que tiene.

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Subjects

  • Violence against
  • Sex differences (Psychology)
  • Feminism
  • Women