The mother of all questions / Rebecca Solnit ; images by Paz de la Calzada.
| Author/creator | Solnit, Rebecca |
| Other author | Calzada, Paz de la. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Chicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, [2017] |
| Description | 176 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction -- The mother of all questions -- Silence is broken. A short history of silence ; An insurrectionary year ; Feminism: the men arrive ; One year after seven deaths ; The short happy recent history of the rape joke -- Breaking the story. Escape from the five-million-year-old suburb ; The pigeonholes when the doves have flown ; 80 books no woman should read ; Men explain Lolita to me ; The case of the missing perpetrator ; Giantess. |
| Abstract | In this collection of essays, Solnit offers a timely commentary on gender and feminism. Her subjects include women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the recent history of rape jokes, and much more. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018418036 |
| ISBN | 9781608467402 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 1608467406 (pbk.) |
| Stock number | Consortium Book Sales & Dist, C/O Perseus Distribution 210 American Dr, Jackson, TN, USA, 38301 SAN 631-760X |