Rebecca Solnit
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