SOLNIT, Rebecca, 1961-MORPHEMICSNEW wordsCULTUREAFFECT (Psychology)The neologism "mansplaining" refers to a specific type of social behaviour in which "men [are] unnecessarily explaining things to women" (Bridges, 2021, p. 3). With the focus on "unnecessarily," the verb "...
萨米·塞奇和艾米丽·阿米克的《逆行的民主》销量增长了30万倍,目前它在“推动者和震动者”排行榜上名列前茅,该排行榜是单日读者兴趣增幅最大的书籍。 丽贝卡·索尔尼特(Rebecca Solnit)的文集《男人向我解释》(Men Explain Things to Me)的排名同期攀升了4万。 本文参考资料: https://www.independent.co.uk/ar...
Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than 20 books, including the memoir RECOLLECTIONS OF MY NONEXISTANCE and the nonfiction A FIELD GUIDE TO GETTING LOST, THE FARAWAY NEARBY, A PARADISE BUILT IN HELL, RIVER OF SHADOWS and WANDERLUST. She is also the author of MEN EXPLAIN THINGS TO ME and...
It is in the nature of things to be lost and not otherwise. Think of how little has been salvaged from the compost of time of the hundreds of billions of dreams dreamt since the language to describe them emerged, how few names, how few wishes, how few languages even, how we don’t ...
Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility. Her other books includeOrwell’s Roses; Recollections of My Nonexistence; Hope in the Dark; Men Explain Things to Me; A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster;andA Field Guide to Getting Lost. A produc...
things that were amazing in the 17thversion get flattened out in the 23rd—but nothing is born perfect. Well, some things almost are, but they’re freaks. And you might get those magical perfect passages if you write a lot, including all the stuff that isn’t magic that has to be cut...
into the aristocracy before his grandfather lost the family fortune, built on Caribbean sugar, when slavery was abolished in 1833), but it’s not difficult to imagine Orwell in the role of the guest who mansplained Solnit’s own book to her at a party (“Men Explain Things To Me,” ...