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S'està carregant… Men Explain Things to Me (2014 original; edició 2015)de Rebecca Solnit (Autor)
Informació de l'obraMen Explain Things to Me: Updated Edition with Two New Essays de Rebecca Solnit (2014)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Amazing and frustrating in equal measure. ( ) Weaving together personal experience and careful research, Solnit examines and exposes the patterns and outcomes that arise from the imbalance of patriarchy and living in a man's world. Without bashing all men, she makes it clear that all women live with a degree of fear that they will experience violence at the hands of men for being women. Sobering and salient, the essays eschew despair with intelligent word-smithing and wry chapter images by the artist Ana Teresa Fernandez. "Sexual assault, like torture, is an attack on a vicim's rights to bodily integrity, to self-determination and self-expression. It's annihilatory, silencing. It intends to rub out the voice and the rights of the victim, who must rise up out of that annihilation to speak. To tell a story and have it and the teller recognized and respected is still one of the best methods we have of overcoming trauma." 106 "And by many measures, including injustice, insatiable greed, and ecological destruction, madness, like meanness, is central to our society, not simply at its edges." 122 "You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it. If you lack words for a phenomenon, an emotion, a situation, you can't talk about it, which means that you can't come together to address it, let alone change it." 129 "Male fury at not having emotional and sexual needs met is far too common, as is the idea that you can rape or punish one woman to get even for what other women have done or not done." 131 This was a short but meaty collection of feminist essays. The writing was stirring and gave me a lot to think about. I originally thought I was picking up a satirical book, judging by the title. If I were more familiar with the author, I might have known it would be a more serious collection. There were two quotes in this book that I really liked; the first is from the author. You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it. The second is from the publisher's note at the end, which quotes August Spies, speaking at the trial after the Haymarket Square riot. This quote is in keeping with the spirit of this book, particularly the last essay, Pandora's Box and the Volunteer Police Force. If you think that by hanging us you can stamp out the labor movement, then hang us. Here you will tread on a spark, but here, and there, and behind you, and in front of you, and everywhere, the flames will blaze up. It is a subterranean fire. You cannot put it out. The ground is on fire upon which you stand. Although I'm positive the author and I don't see eye to eye on all issues, particularly abortion, I think she had a lot of important observations and assertions here, and I'm glad I read it. The great reckoning, in terms of sexual assault, had been bubbling beneath the surface of society for years, decades, even centuries, before it burst through the surface and made headlines in late 2017. The most important aspect I want to make sure that I state in regards to this review is that Men Explain Things to Me is not an essay collection that bashes men. Rebecca Solnit’s purpose in collecting together the essays that make up the book Men Explain Things to Me is, like any good journalist’s intention, to make her readers aware of things that are going on in the world today. Each essay in the collection deals at least in some small way how we interact with each other, both as members of society and within personal, intimate relationships. It is about encouraging women to find their voices and encouraging men to think about how their words and actions are perceived and interpreted. For a fairly short book (less than 200 pages), it took me the better part of three weeks to read. Not because it was dense, or because I didn’t like, but because I wanted to make sure that I remembered Rebecca’s words and used them to do good in the world. One of the biggest strengths and challenges with the written word is that they can be interpreted in many different ways. Reading Men Explain Things to Me can be twisted and turned to make anyone’s point, and I don’t want to do that. I want to take what Solnit writes and make myself a better contributing member of society. And I have to believe that’s what she would want as well. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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"In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, airing some of her own hilariously awful encounters. She ends on a serious note-- because the ultimate problem is the silencing of women who have something to say, including those saying things like, "He's trying to kill me!" This book features that now-classic essay with six perfect complements, including an examination of the great feminist writer Virginia Woolf 's embrace of mystery, of not knowing, of doubt and ambiguity, a highly original inquiry into marriage equality, and a terrifying survey of the scope of contemporary violence against women"-- No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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