Men Explain Things to Me

Author: Solnit, Rebecca

Literary essays

Published on 27 February 2025 by GRANTA BOOKS in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 64 pages
151 x 110 x 6 | 46g

Published as a standalone on International Woman's Day, the essay that became a touchstone of the feminist movement and inspired the term 'mansplaining', with an afterword on its originsThis famous and influential essay, which describes the time when, at a party, a man explained to Rebecca Solnit the argument of her own book, inspired the term 'mansplaining' and established Solnit as a vital figure of the feminist movement, and one of the leading thinkers of our time. Fierce, incisive and funny, it exposes the inherent sexism of our patriarchal culture.