Men Explain Things to Me

About Men Explain Things to Me

Rebecca Solnit's Men Explain Things to Me (2014) is a collection of seven essays — beginning with the title essay about an incident that gave the internet the concept of 'mansplaining' and ranging through violence against women, Virginia Woolf, marriage equality, and the politics of silence — that became one of the most widely read and discussed works of feminist essay writing of the 2010s. Sharp, precise, and formally accessible, the collection makes a continuous argument about the relationship between everyday condescension and structural violence.