As such, Solnit praises the perceived threat to traditional marriages that same-sex marriages pose because they demand equality in partnership, something women haven’t visibly had. In that frame of thought, it is so ingrained in patriarchal societies that women must be subservient to men that same-sex marriage would allow for the ideological emancipation of women in marriages if they were forced to be considered equals. Solnit theorizes that since same-sex marriages do not operate within the confines of traditional gender roles, they represent a threat to the traditional marriage structure, as they are unions between equal partners. In this essay, Solnit poses the idea that the backlash to same-sex marriage by proponents of traditional marriage comes from a place of ideological misogyny. In Praise of the Threat: What Marriage Equality Really Means (2013) In this essay, Solnit reflects on how the IMF takes advantage of formerly colonized nations much in the same way that the world rapes and takes advantage of women in less fortunate positions, equating the world with women and the IMF with men in high-up positions of power. This essay is about Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in response to the rape of Nafissatou Diallo. Worlds Collide in a Luxury Suite: Some Thoughts on the IMF, Global Injustice, and a Stranger on a Train (2011) To exemplify her argument Solnit focuses on the rape and death of Jyoti Singh in New Delhi as a very public example of the types of violence that women experience in their lives. Solnit describes how the online community also facilitates and enables this violent environment. This essay focuses on violence against women, specifically how women are more likely to be murdered by their husbands or boyfriends, abused, raped, and assaulted/injured by men. In this way, Solnit argues, female silencing is a dangerous phenomenon. With an absence of credibility to female voices in the male mind issues like violent death, abuse, harassment, and rape are often discounted. In this essay, Solnit describes how the silencing of female voices is an infringement on female liberty and is in fact an abuse of power. This phenomenon would later be labelled mansplaining. The eponymous essay focuses on the silencing of women, with specific attention to the idea that men seemingly believe that no matter what a woman says, a man always knows better. The September 2015 expanded edition of the book included two new essays: "Cassandra Among the Creeps" and "#YesAllWomen: Feminists Rewrite the Story."Įach chapter is a separate essay, from various years, that sums up one key aspect of the world of women under patriarchy. The book originally contained seven essays, the main essay of which was cited in The New Republic as the piece that "launched the term mansplaining", though Solnit herself did not use the word in the original essay and has since rejected the term. Men Explain Things to Me is a 2014 essay collection by the American writer Rebecca Solnit, published by Haymarket Books. Men Explain Things to Me at Haymarket Books Feminist theory, women's rights, media culture, media studies
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