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4.21 AVERAGE
4.21 AVERAGE
challenging
This book is a collection of Solnit's essays from 2018-2019, examining power dynamics in the present, from Trump's America to climate activism.
I found the whole book to be so on point. So appreciative of this book.
I found the whole book to be so on point. So appreciative of this book.
This was great. The one thing I would change would be to remove the essay called "Crossing Over" because it didn't seem to fit with the rest of the book. I thought all the explaining words using Latin was too much.
Solnit's essays are always a gut-punch. There were a few I wasn't as into, but again, mostly stellar, always germane, always a pleasure to read.
4.5 stars
Rebecca Solnit is perhaps best remembered for coining the term 'mansplaining', but she should well be recalled for her lucid, accessible insight into the lopsidedness of power and volume in public discourse. In Whose Story Is This: Old Conflicts, New Chapters Solnit amplifies contemporary arguments from women, people of colour and non-straight people against a race-supremacist patriarchal system.The book stems from her work published between April 2018 and March 2019, and Solnit best describes it as
Whose Story Is This is necessary reading for all those who wish to keep up with the times — and how they should be A'changin'.
Rebecca Solnit is perhaps best remembered for coining the term 'mansplaining', but she should well be recalled for her lucid, accessible insight into the lopsidedness of power and volume in public discourse. In Whose Story Is This: Old Conflicts, New Chapters Solnit amplifies contemporary arguments from women, people of colour and non-straight people against a race-supremacist patriarchal system.The book stems from her work published between April 2018 and March 2019, and Solnit best describes it as
(...) transcripts of my side of some conversations with the society around me as it undergoes tumultuous changes, with the changemakers winning some remarkable battled against the forces trying to protect the most malevolent parts of the status quo as it crumbles anyway. It's a book that comes out of the siesmic activity in feminism, racial justice, climate action, and other human rights movements, out of the way it's changing the public landscape right down to street names and breaking old frameworks.I particularly enjoyed essays included in the second section, such as "Crossing Over" and "A Hero Is A Disaster".
Whose Story Is This is necessary reading for all those who wish to keep up with the times — and how they should be A'changin'.
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
2/1/20
First book of the year! And what a stunner it was! :) I read this and Solnit's children's book [b:Cinderella Liberator|43419824|Cinderella Liberator|Rebecca Solnit|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1546271402l/43419824._SX50_.jpg|67466119] for Emma Watson's feminist book club Our Shared Shelf. Both were incredibly insightful and I will be making a video about it soon - stay tuned! :)
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