Men Explain Things to Me

176 páginas

Publicado el 1 de Septiembre de 2015 por Haymarket Books.

ISBN:
978-1-60846-466-1
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In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, airing some of her own hilariously awful encounters. She ends on a serious note-- because the ultimate problem is the silencing of women who have something to say, including those saying things like, "He's trying to kill me!" This book features that now-classic essay with six perfect complements, including an examination of the great feminist writer Virginia Woolf 's embrace of mystery, of not knowing, of doubt and ambiguity, a highly original inquiry into marriage equality, and a terrifying survey of the scope of contemporary violence against women

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Este libro contiene siete artículos de la escritora Rebeca Solnit. El primero es el que da título a la colección "Los hombres me explican cosas". Los artículos hablan sobre diversos temas relacionados con el feminismos. Algunos están muy bien pero otros son alg aburridos y/ dispersos ( no pude terminar el de "Woolf's Darkness" ) Otro aspecto que no me ha convencido es que es muy "usacentríco" normal ( o no) al ser una escritora de Estados Unidos. Eso me hacía alejarme un poco. Tampoco es que si eres feminista y tienes lecturas y reflexiones sobre estos temas te vaya a descubrir nada nuevo. En general me ha decepcionado un poco ya que esperaba más por la fama que tiene.

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I must say that I really enjoyed this book.

I got it kindly recommended after some (unpleasant) discussions on Twitter about feminism and sexism, and I'm very glad that at least I got this as "something good" from it.

As a white cishet man, unless you're already very familiar with this topic, you have to read it in a very open-minded way. Some assertions might make you feel attacked or uncomfortable, but I think it is worthy to read it leaving all your ego aside. I'm sure we all can learn a lot from it (I hope I did it).

Surprisingly, I only disagreed with a couple of sentences. In a 140 pages book, that looks amazing to me :-)

I specially enjoyed the Woolf's part and the last chapter, "Pandora's box". Very powerful analysis and reflections.

I think it's specially good that the writer communicates very well, she uses …

Review of 'Men explain things to me' on 'Goodreads'

3 estrellas

Siete ensayos, entre los que está el famosísimo que describe esa situación tan común: que no se te tome en serio porque eres mujer. Oscila entre el tono bastante informal de ése y otro bastante más pesado. Todos tratan sobre diversos aspectos feministas, algo que podría haberse puesto en el título o la descripción. Sólo le pongo tres estrellas porque es un poco irregular.

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