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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 term mansplaining was inspired by an essay, "Men Explain Things to Me: Facts Didn't Get in Their Way", written by author Rebecca Solnit and published on TomDispatch.com on 13 April 2008. In the essay, Solnit told an anecdote about a man at a party who said he had heard she had written some books.
Rebecca Solnit (born 1961) is an American writer and activist. ... Solnit has been credited with paving the way for the coining of the word "mansplaining", ...
Examples of Mansplaining. There have been many historical examples that predate the term and Solnit’s essay on mansplaining. One such written example is John Adams’ letter to his wife in 1776 ...
It’s been a month since the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills aired, but the ladies of the 90210 picked up right where they left off with Denise Richards’ husband, Aaron Phypers, when the Bravo ...
Men Explain Things to Me (2014) by American writer Rebecca Solnit (notably, a 2008 essay also called Men Explain Things to Me, reprinted in the book, gave rise to the term mansplaining) The Vagenda (2014) by British writers Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett and Holly Baxter (based on their online UJ feminist magazine, The Vagenda, launched in 2012)
No guilt, just pleasure in spicy romance books. As one of romance’s hottest authors (both in steamy scenes and popularity), Huang says she gets frustrated when she hears how romance is cast ...
In the moments after he was struck by the Taser, Scott’s legs bounced up and down uncontrollably on his 6-foot-3, 260-pound frame. After getting up, he couldn’t stop shaking from the pulsing waves of electricity, he said.