Granta Publications, 2014
Essays dealing with relationships between men and women, wherein women are still getting shafted but there's still hope for a better world. Original photos by Ana Teresa Fernandez.
On women being silenced:
« Men explain things to me and other women, whether or not they know what they’re talking about. » ... « Some men »
« Every woman knows what I’m talking about. It’s the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field ; that keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare ; that crushes young women into silence by indicating, the way harassment on the street does, that this is not their world. It trains us in self-doubt and self-limitation just as it exercises men’s unsupported overconfidence. »
Essays in collection :
1. Men Explain Things to Me
2. The Longest War
3. Worlds Collide in a Luxury Suite : Some Thoughts on the IMF, Global injustice, and a Stranger on a Train
4. In Praise of the Threat : What Marriage Equlaity Really Means
5. Grandmother Spider
6. Woolf’s Darkness : Embracing the Inexplicable
7. Pandora’s Box and the Volunteer Police Force
« Men explain things to me and other women, whether or not they know what they’re talking about. »
The textbook definition of mansplaining.