Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit is a collection of essays on the topic of feminism and women’s experience of the world. It starts with the essay Men Explain Things to Me which you may have run into before. This essay explores the silencing of women in one way or another a topic that runs throughout the essays in the book. I read the book because I had heard of but never read the title essay and was interested in doing so. The book as a whole was thought provoking if a bit depressing. Depressing for the bleakness of the facts that support her arguments and the fact that, to use her own image, on the road to gender equality we have barely begun.All in all a book I would recommend to anyone.
