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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 deeply ... 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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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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Though reading it in presentday presents some problems such as wincing at solnits determination that roe would not be overturned it remains validating eyeopening and a rallying cry
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Her range goes from laconic observation poetic exposition to just anger gloved in the velvet of wit
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Which should be more widely read
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It is speaking out against rape domestic violence
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It indicates that instead of preaching to victims one should preach to predators
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