Rebecca Solnit's essay 'Men Explain Things to Me' has become a touchstone of the
feminist movement, inspired the term 'mansplaining', and established Solnit as
one of the leading feminist thinkers of our time - one who has inspired everyone
from radical activists to Beyonce Knowles. Collected here in print for the firs
t time is the essay itself, along with the best of Solnit's feminist writings. F
rom rape culture to mansplaining, from French sex scandals to marriage and the n
uclear family, from Virginia Woolf to colonialism, these essays are a fierce and
incisive exploration of the issues that a patriarchal culture will not necessar
ily acknowledge as 'issues' at all.
