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The first essay is scathing and brilliant and funny; the second is scathing and brilliant and just plain depressing.
Some excellent writing and analysis here. . . some of it was over my head though.
Some excellent writing and analysis here. . . some of it was over my head though.
The first half was what I thought the book would be about, and the second half drifted to touch on some of the themes of Solnit's other works. I'm a big fan of hers, so it was interesting, but the first part was best. It brings together very recent (2012) events in the course of explaining the phenomenon of sexual entitlement, still operating in the US and around the world today. Made me think.
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Dec 31, 2015
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I expected this collection of essays to focus more on mansplaining, but was surprised, as was the author herself, to find it focused more on the outgrowth of phenomena such as mansplaining: physical violence against women. Most of the essays in the book address bleak numbers and stories of the various forms of violence and if not violence, the associated silencing women face and that violence seeks to create. Though this topic is not new to me in any possible way, I still learned something from
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The essays in this book - particularly the title one - made me angry, and got me worked up, as I kept nodding my head emphatically. Solnit did a wonderful job of capturing the experiences that women face.
I wildly loved the first essay.
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