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The mother of all questions, Rebecca Solnit ; images by Paz de la Calzada

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The mother of all questions, Rebecca Solnit ; images by Paz de la Calzada

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

essays

Main title

The mother of all questions

Oclc number

964709313

Responsibility statement

Rebecca Solnit ; images by Paz de la Calzada

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

Table Of 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

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