Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

44 reviews

lpfoley's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

This is so much more complex and interesting of a book than I thought it would be. I sort of assumed it was going to be a snarky social experiment, but it’s a deep reflection on the violence and subjugation of women and the social and cultural impacts of that with stunningly beautiful writing.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Violence, Mass/school shootings, and Gaslighting

arrowdodger's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Mass/school shootings, and Sexual harassment

suzyvee's review against another edition

informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, and Violence

pingureads's review against another edition

3.0

 Some of these essays felt fleshed out and insightful, standouts for me were Grandmother Spider, Woolf's Darkness and Worlds Collide in a Luxury Suite. Men Explain Things to Me, the titular essay, felt simplistic and underdeveloped even for it's age and having brought this phenomenon to the forefront of the political and feminist conversation. The Longest War was a series of entirely-too-graphic statistics on SA and DV rather than an essay.

While the collection has some gems, it is not enough of a fundamental text to ignore the flaws of the discussion. Pick up a more nuanced and contemporary collection on similar topics of feminism and that will serve you much better than this does on that. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

squiggidy's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, Violence, and Murder

hannibanani29's review against another edition

challenging reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Homophobia, Racism, Transphobia, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Classism

serendipitysbooks's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

 Men Explain Things to Me is a collection of unflinching feminist essays originally published as a collection in 2014 although individually the first was published in 2008. It’s a collection that depressed me because of how little changed in nearly a decade. There was a sense of optimism in more than one essay that some critical juncture had been reached and now violence against women would no longer be tolerated. And while the names may be different the news headlines stubbornly remain the same. Obviously this is the fault of society, not the author.
 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, and Sexism

cameronrouse's review against another edition

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Sexism, and Sexual assault

mads_jpg's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective fast-paced

4.25

Rebecca Solnit is quickly becoming one of my favourite writers, she writes so beautifully about some of the ugliest topics, and I just want to hear her thoughts on literally anything.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

hollygallagher's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Misogyny, and Rape