{"product_id":"9781608467204","title":"The Mother of All Questions","description":"\u003cp\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eMen Explain Things to Me\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It's a fraught time to be female in America (or should I say fraught-er), and Rebecca Solnit's \u003ci\u003eMen Explain Things to Me \u003c\/i\u003eis the most clarifying, soothing, and socially aware document I've read on the topic this year.\"—Lena Dunham, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The Antidote to Mansplaining.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Feminist, frequently funny, unflinchingly honest, and often scathing in its conclusions.\"—\u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a timely and incisive follow-up to her national bestseller \u003ci\u003eMen Explain Things to Me\u003c\/i\u003e, Rebecca Solnit offers sharp commentary on women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the gender binary, the recent history of rape jokes, and much more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn characteristic style, Solnit mixes humor, keen analysis, and sharp insight in these eleven essays.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWriter, historian, and activist \u003cb\u003eRebecca Solnit\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of eighteen or so books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including the books \u003ci\u003eMen Explain Things to Me\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHope in the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e, both also with Haymarket; a trilogy of atlases of American cities; \u003ci\u003eThe Faraway Nearby\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eA Field Guide to Getting Lost\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eWanderlust: A History of Walking\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eRiver of Shadows, Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West\u003c\/i\u003e (for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at Harper's and a regular contributor to the Guardian.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47174694109424,"sku":"9781608467204","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781608467204_p0.jpg?v=1769902895","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781608467204","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}