![]() ![]() It also gave rise to the now ubiquitous term “ mansplaining” (which was officially added to the OED in 2014). Her host interrupts her, beginning to regale Solnit with a description of a recently published “very important Muybridge book”, without for one minute stopping to consider that the two books are one and the same, a book that, as it turns out, he hasn’t even read, simply read about. During a party at the home of an older “imposing man who’d made lots of money”, she mentions that she’s recently written a book about Eadweard Muybridge. ![]() Solnit’s most famous work, “Men Explain Things to Me” (an essay first published online in 2008, and subsequently reprinted in her 2014 book of the same title) begins with a personal anecdote that’s now the stuff of legend. It’s more than simply possessing “the animal capacity to utter sounds”, it means “the ability to participate fully in the conversations that shape your society, your relations to others, and your own life”. There are three key things that matter in having a voice,” writes Rebecca Solnit in her memoir Recollections of My Non-Existence: “audibility, credibility, and consequence”. ![]()
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