The Mother of All Questions

Rebecca Solnit's timely follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me offers a refreshing take on contemporary feminism.

List of contents

Chapter One: The Mother of All Questions

Chapter Two: Silence Is Broken

Chapter Three: The Year Women Refused to Shut Up

Chapter Four: Feminism: The Men Arrive

Chapter Five: The Short Happy Recent History of the Rape Joke

Chapter Six: 80 Books No Woman Should Read

Chapter Seven: The Tomb of the Unknown Battered Woman, or, Extremely Domestic Terrorism

Chapter Eight: Isla Vista One Year After

Chapter Nine: Shooting Down Man the Hunter

Chapter Ten: Categories Are Leaky: An Argument for and Against Gender Binaries

Chapter Eleven: Despite Everything: Finishing My Grandmothers' Work

About the author

Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books, including Orwell's Roses, Hope in the Dark, Men Explain Things to Me, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster, and A Field Guide to Getting Lost. A longtime climate and human rights activist, she serves on the boards of Oil Change International and Third Act.

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca Solnit, Solnit Rebecca
• Publisher: US Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9781608467402
• ISBN: 978-1-60846-740-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 192 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 221 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; HUMOR / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Society & culture: general, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Feminism & feminist theory, Humour collections & anthologies, Gender studies: women, Humour collections and anthologies, Society and culture: general, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls