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Rebecca Solnit (born 1961) is an American writer and activist. She has written on a variety of subjects, including feminism , the environment, politics, place, and art. [ 1 ]
Men Explain Things to Me is a 2014 essay collection by the American writer Rebecca Solnit, published by Haymarket Books.The book originally contained seven essays, the main essay of which was cited in The New Republic as the piece that "launched the term mansplaining". [1]
The Faraway Nearby is a 2013 book by Rebecca Solnit.Containing writing reminiscent of memoir, literary criticism, travelogue, prose poetry, as well as analyses of myth, fairytale and narratives more generally, the book defies easy categorization.
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster is a book by American writer Rebecca Solnit, published by Viking Press in 2009. The book deals with the aftermath of disasters, challenging the traditional narrative of chaos and mass panic with evidence that people typically respond to disaster with altruism, solidarity, and mutual aid.
River of Shadows received a positive response from critics, including Jim Lewis of The New York Times, [3] who called the book "deeply intelligent".. For River of Shadows, Solnit was honored with the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism [4] and the 2004 Sally Hacker Prize from the Society for the History of Technology, which honors exceptional scholarship that reaches beyond ...
Orwell's Roses is a book of biography and literary criticism by Rebecca Solnit. The book explores the relation between George Orwell 's interest in gardening and his other authorial and political commitments.
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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 February 2025. Pejorative term Mansplaining (a blend word of man and the informal form splaining of the gerund explaining) is a pejorative term meaning "(for a man) to comment on or explain something, to a woman, in a condescending, overconfident, and often inaccurate or oversimplified manner". In its ...