Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca SolnitRequirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 76.3 MBOverview: In Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit takes on the conversations between men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don’t. The ultimate problem, she shows in her comic, scathing essay, is female self-doubt and the silencing of women. […]
Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca SolnitRequirements: .MP3 reader, 154.4 MBOverview: With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide knowledge of environmental, cultural, […]
Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) by Rebecca SolnitRequirements: .MP3 reader, 164.8 MOverview: In this powerful and wide-ranging collection of essays, Rebecca Solnit turns her attention to the war at home. This is a war, she says, “[W]ith so many casualties that we should call it by its true name, this […]
Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca SolnitRequirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 381.9 MBOverview: Drawing together many histories – of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores – Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities presented by walking. Arguing that the history of walking includes […]
The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca SolnitRequirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 148.4 MBOverview: In a timely and incisive follow-up to her national best seller Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit offers sharp commentary on women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the gender binary, the recent history […]