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Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit

Americanb. 1961Essay

American essayist and historian whose Men Explain Things to Me coined the term 'mansplaining.' A Field Guide to Getting Lost and Wanderlust: A History of Walking are lyrical explorations of movement, space, and uncertainty. She writes at the intersection of feminism, environmentalism, and place.

Works

  • A Field Guide to Getting LostGetting lost as metaphor for freedom, discovery, and transformation through disorientation→
  • WanderlustCultural history of walking and exploration revealing desire to know the world→
  • Men Explain Things to MeEssays on mansplaining, sexism, and how women's visibility is diminished and erased→
  • A Paradise Built in HellHow communities create meaning, beauty, and hope during disasters and catastrophes→
  • Hope in the DarkHope as activist practice offering possibility for change even amid darkness→
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