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4.18 AVERAGE
4.18 AVERAGE
Rebecca Solnit's writing never fails to inform and inspire. The Mother Of All Questions was a thought-provoking read, a book I highly recommend to anyone seeking to better understand the physical, emotional, and structural violence women endure everywhere today.
Rebecca Solnit is extremely clear and concise in her essays regarding gender roles and behavior. She does not mince words when discussing and describing the various permutations and iterations of male dominant ideology that infuses society. I appreciate her direct approach in getting to the heart of the matter in each of her essays. I will be rereading this book in the near future.
Clear, concise, empowering, funny when appropriate, and extremely accessible for everybody. It touches upon subjects such as motherhood, guilt, victimhood, how language and stories shape society, and lays all the bizarre structures in our society bare. The good thing is: the world is changing so fast at the moment, that some sentences in Solnit's essays are already dated. I think my only 'problem' with some of the essays was that I've read articles by other writers on that before. However, Solnit still knows to write it down in an extremely engaging way.
“There is no good answer to how to be a woman; the art may instead lie in how we refuse the question.”
“As it happens, there are many reasons why I don’t have children: I am very good at birth control; though I love children and adore aunthood, I also love solitude; I was raised by unhappy, unkind people, and I wanted neither to replicate their form of parenting nor to create human beings who might feel about me the way that I felt about my begetters; I really wanted to write books, which as I’ve done it is a fairly consuming vocation. I’m not dogmatic about not having kids. I might have had them under other circumstances and been fine — as I am now.”
“There is no good answer to how to be a woman; the art may instead lie in how we refuse the question.”
“As it happens, there are many reasons why I don’t have children: I am very good at birth control; though I love children and adore aunthood, I also love solitude; I was raised by unhappy, unkind people, and I wanted neither to replicate their form of parenting nor to create human beings who might feel about me the way that I felt about my begetters; I really wanted to write books, which as I’ve done it is a fairly consuming vocation. I’m not dogmatic about not having kids. I might have had them under other circumstances and been fine — as I am now.”
“Liberation is always in part a storytelling process: breaking stories, breaking silences, making new stories. A free person tells her own story. A valued person lives in a society in which her story has a place.”
This should be on everyone's list of Required Reading.
This should be on everyone's list of Required Reading.
The advance copy had two essays I'd already read by Solnit, and the rest included only gave me cravings for the rest. Will definitely be reading the full collection when it is released this spring.
Collection of essays on topics ranging from the ideas about motherhood, silencing, rape jokes, Lolita, and Gamergate. The book was originally published in 2017, and already has dated itself with the celebrity name drops-- for example, Louis C.K. is noted for being a feminist comedian, and we all know what an actual sack of garbage he is. Though, with the advantage of hindsight, it does make some of her essays interesting to read.
A collection of essays about women and power and how society silences women.
The essays cover the period 2014-16. Rape ‘joke’ comedians, frat boy rapists, gamergaters, and mass shooters with MRA alpha male delusions that all women should provide them with sex provide a feminist timeline of the misogynist culture wars culminating in the election of Trump and the sexual abuse revelations about Harvey Weinstein et al.
The essays cover the period 2014-16. Rape ‘joke’ comedians, frat boy rapists, gamergaters, and mass shooters with MRA alpha male delusions that all women should provide them with sex provide a feminist timeline of the misogynist culture wars culminating in the election of Trump and the sexual abuse revelations about Harvey Weinstein et al.
medium-paced
informative
inspiring
sad
fast-paced
A bit repetitive but the topic is important and universal
4,5
Miałam się za Solnit już nie zabierać, ale po opinii pewnej osoby („ta książka jest o wiele mniej chaotyczna id poprzednich”) uznałam, że jeśli jeden z moich największych problemów, z tą autorką, mógł zostać rozwiązany to czemu by nie spróbować.
Chyba znalazłam metodę na jej, pełne różnych historii, eseje. Czytać po troszku. Nic odkrywczego, ale możliwe, że przez przeczytanie na raz „Mężczyźni objaśniają mi świat” niepotrzebnie sama przytłoczyłam się historiami, które były dla mnie całkiem wzajemnie podobne. Jednak czy książka nie powinna dać się przeczytać na raz i nadal być bdb?
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Czy Matka wszystkich pytań jest mniej chaotyczna? Tak
Czy jest w niej pełno różnych historii?
Yup
Czy nagle polubiłam eseje?
Nie wiem, prędzej Virginia Woolf zmieniła coś w tym temacie
Czy będę czytać jeszcze coś tej autorki?
Jest szansa
Miałam się za Solnit już nie zabierać, ale po opinii pewnej osoby („ta książka jest o wiele mniej chaotyczna id poprzednich”) uznałam, że jeśli jeden z moich największych problemów, z tą autorką, mógł zostać rozwiązany to czemu by nie spróbować.
Chyba znalazłam metodę na jej, pełne różnych historii, eseje. Czytać po troszku. Nic odkrywczego, ale możliwe, że przez przeczytanie na raz „Mężczyźni objaśniają mi świat” niepotrzebnie sama przytłoczyłam się historiami, które były dla mnie całkiem wzajemnie podobne. Jednak czy książka nie powinna dać się przeczytać na raz i nadal być bdb?
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Czy Matka wszystkich pytań jest mniej chaotyczna? Tak
Czy jest w niej pełno różnych historii?
Yup
Czy nagle polubiłam eseje?
Nie wiem, prędzej Virginia Woolf zmieniła coś w tym temacie
Czy będę czytać jeszcze coś tej autorki?
Jest szansa