MEN EXPLAIN THINGS TO ME

Published as a standalone on International Woman s Day, the essay that became a touchstone of the feminist movement and inspired the term mansplaining , with an afterword on its origins This famous and influential essay, which describes the time when, at a party, a man explained to Rebecca Solnit the argument of her own book, inspired the term mansplaining and established Solnit as a vital figure of the feminist movement, and one of the leading thinkers of our time. Fierce, incisive and funny, it exposes the inherent sexism of our patriarchal culture.