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The essays that follow in this short volume are remarkable for their clarity and insight. This collection focuses on how small acts and beliefs lead to larger ones and create institutional problems. It is straddling the line between celebrating how fa... Read More
Solnit walks us through the landscape of where we are today with gender inequality. I greatly appreciate how solnit connects the dots from the more subtle, less dangerous acts of sexism in our society to the most horrifying violent acts. In elegant pr... Read More
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They are incredibly wordy, perhaps to overcompensate for the fact that there is not enough content. The lack of citing to any source for certain outrageous claims. Books like this are mindlessly divisive, and it is part of the problem.
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Solnit walks us through the landscape of where we are today with gender inequality with great attention, detail, care, and deep... Read More
Solnit writes very well and wastes no words getting her point across.
Barring a couple of chapters and essays which seemed slightly off tangent, this is a blatantly honest well written book on modern feminism.
Yet a hopes filled recognition of the progress to date and the certitude that gains made so far can never be unraveled.
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In it she describes a situation where an unnamed man at a party tries to explain to her a book she herself has written
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Here in these essays obviously her experience as a woman is much more in evidence however she is not strident
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I do not like stridency in anyone making an argument whether it be for atheism religion politics or anything else that stirs up disagreement and emotion
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Solnit’s sitting in the window of an independent bookstore on the east side of manhattan—a field guide to getting lost
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I have never found a book of hers disappointing
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Having read the feminist works of the 1960s and 1970s plus a few new articles each year i didnt think there was much that was unique being written
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These are thoughtprovoking essays and just the enormous piles of crap that women have to deal with
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While a physically slim volume men explain things to me packs a punch
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