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Author Solnit, Rebecca.

Title The mother of all questions / Rebecca Solnit ; images by Paz de la Calzada.

Publication Info. Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, [2017]

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 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  305.42 SOLNIT    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  305.42 SOLNIT    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  305 SOL    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  305.42 SOL    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  305.42 SOLNIT    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  305.42 SOLNIT    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  305.42 SO    Check Shelf
Description 176 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Summary In this collection of essays, Solnit offers a timely commentary on gender and feminism. Her subjects include women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the recent history of rape jokes, and much more.
Contents Introduction -- The mother of all questions -- Silence is broken. A short history of silence ; An insurrectionary year ; Feminism: the men arrive ; One year after seven deaths ; The short happy recent history of the rape joke -- Breaking the story. Escape from the five-million-year-old suburb ; The pigeonholes when the doves have flown ; 80 books no woman should read ; Men explain Lolita to me ; The case of the missing perpetrator ; Giantess.
Subject Feminism.
Sex differences (Psychology)
Women -- Violence against.
Essays.
HUMOR -- Essays.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Feminism. (OCoLC)fst00922671
Sex differences (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst01114336
Women -- Violence against. (OCoLC)fst01427006
Genre/Form Essays.
Added Author Calzada, Paz de la, illustrator.
ISBN 9781608467402 (paperback)
1608467406 (paperback)
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