The Mother of All Questions -- Rebecca Solnit, Paperback

In a timely follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit offers indispensable commentary on women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the gender binary, the recent history of rape jokes, and much more.

In characteristic style, Solnit mixes humor, keen analysis, and powerful insight in these essays.

Author: Rebecca Solnit
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 03/07/2017
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.30w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781608467402

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/19/2016 pg. 110
Publishers Weekly 01/02/2017
Library Journal 02/01/2017 pg. 93
Booklist 02/01/2017 pg. 5
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2017
Shelf Awareness 03/24/2017

About the Author

Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of eighteen or so books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including the books Men Explain Things to Me and Hope in the Dark, both also with Haymarket; a trilogy of atlases of American cities; The Faraway Nearby; A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster; A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Wanderlust: A History of Walking; and River of Shadows, Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at Harper's and a regular contributor to the Guardian.