Men Explain Things to Me
by Rebecca Solnit · Granta Books
Rebecca Solnit's influential essay on a man explaining her own book to her, which inspired the term mansplaining, published as a short standalone edition with an afterword. It shows how dismissing women's knowledge connects everyday condescension to silencing and violence.
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