Rebecca Solnit

The iconic 20” x 20” “City of Women” map, updated for 2019 with dozens of new NYC icons including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cardi B, and all the All-Girl Robotics Teams of the Bronx. “How does it impact our imaginations that so many places in so many cities are named after men and so few after women? What kind of landscape do we move through when streets and parks and statues and bridges are gendered—Astor Place, Lafayette Street, Madison Avenue, Lincoln Center, Washington Square, the Frick, Rockefeller Center, Penn Station, the Bronx, the Hudson—and it’s usually one gender, and not another? What kind of silence arises in places that so seldom speak of and to women? This map was made to sing the praises of the extraordinary women who have, since the beginning, been shapers and heroes of this city that has always been, secretly, a City of Women. And why not the subway? This is a history still emerging from underground, a reminder that it’s all connected, and that we get around.” —Rebecca Solnit Cartography by Molly Roy. Design by Lia Tjandra. Adapted from the original NYC Subway Map.

This is a 10-pack of the City of Women poster, which includes an additional free display copy. Individual copies of the poster are also available under ISBN 9781642590197. The iconic 20” x 20” “City of Women” map, updated for 2019 with dozens of new NYC icons including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cardi B, and all the All-Girl Robotics Teams of the Bronx. “How does it impact our imaginations that so many places in so many cities are named after men and so few after women? What kind of landscape do we move through when streets and parks and statues and bridges are gendered—Astor Place, Lafayette Street, Madison Avenue, Lincoln Center, Washington Square, the Frick, Rockefeller Center, Penn Station, the Bronx, the Hudson—and it’s usually one gender, and not another? What kind of silence arises in places that so seldom speak of and to women? This map was made to sing the praises of the extraordinary women who have, since the beginning, been shapers and heroes of this city that has always been, secretly, a City of Women. And why not the subway? This is a history still emerging from underground, a reminder that it’s all connected, and that we get around.” —Rebecca Solnit Cartography by Molly Roy. Design by Lia Tjandra. Adapted from the original NYC Subway Map.

"No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that's marked this new millennium."--Bill McKibben "An elegant reminder that activist victories are easily forgotten, and that they often come in extremely unexpected, roundabout ways."--The New YorkerA book as powerful and influential as Rebecca Solnit's Men Explain Things to Me, her Hope in the Dark was written to counter the despair of radicals at a moment when they were focused on their losses and had turned their back to the victories behind them--and the unimaginable changes soon to come. In it, she makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argued that radicals have a long, neglected history of transformative victories, that the positive consequences of our acts are not always immediately seen, directly knowable, or even measurable, and that pessimism and despair rest on an unwarranted confidence about what is going to happen next. Now, with a moving new introduction explaining how the book came about and a new afterword that helps teach us how to hope and act in our unnerving world, she brings a new illumination to the darkness of 2016 in an unforgettable new edition of this classic book. Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of eighteen or so books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including the books Men Explain Things to Me and Hope in the Dark, both also with Haymarket; a trilogy of atlases of American cities; The Faraway Nearby;A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster; A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Wanderlust: A History of Walking; and River of Shadows, Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at Harper's and a regular contributor to the Guardian.

Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle royale over that foundational power, one in which women, people of color, non-straight people are telling other versions, and white people and men and particularly white men are trying to hang onto the old versions and their own centrality. In Whose Story Is This? Rebecca Solnit appraises what's emerging and why it matters and what the obstacles are.

In a timely follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit offers indispensable commentary on women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the gender binary, the recent history of rape jokes, and much more. In characteristic style, Solnit mixes humor, keen analysis, and powerful insight in these essays.

Ljuga i offentligheten går att göra på många olika sätt, påpekar Rebecca Solnit i förordet till essäsamlingen "Kalla dem vid deras rätta namn". ”Man kan ljuga genom att blunda för hela sfärer som påverkar och påverkas, utelämna viktig information eller låta bli att koppla ihop orsak och verkan, genom att framställa information på ett oriktigt sätt – vinkla den eller ge den fel proportioner, eller genom att använda förskönande omskrivningar för våld eller baktaleri av helt normala aktiviteter (…)”. "Kalla dem vid deras rätta namn" belyser en rad centrala politiska problem i dagens USA och inte bara där. Texterna handlar bland annat om Donald Trumps obotliga ensamhet, klimatkrisen som våldsutövning, våra möjligheter att hålla hoppet om en rimligare värld vid liv och vikten av att inse att olika slags förtryck (baserat på klass, kön eller ras) kan vara olika uttryck för samma destruktiva maktstrukturer. Men central i alla bokens texter är frågan om vilket språk vi använder för att beskriva och förstå vår belägenhet. Genom att värna om språkets precision och nyansrikedom, värnar vi på samma gång om vår framtid. Rebecca Solnit, född 1961 och bosatt i San Francisco, är författare, journalist och politisk aktivist. Daidalos har av Solnit tidigare publicerat "Gå vilse. En fälthandbok" (2012), "Det avlägset nära" (2014), "Män förklarar saker för mig" (2015), "Wanderlust" (2017) och "Alla frågors moder" (2017).

Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle over that foundational power. Women, people of colour and non-straight people are telling other versions, and white men in particular are fighting to preserve their own centrality. In this outstanding collection of essays by one of the most prescient and insightful commentators today, Solnit appraises the voices that are emerging, why they matter and the obstacles they face in making themselves heard.

New feminist essays for the #MeToo era from the international best-selling author of Men Explain Things to Me. Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle royale over that foundational power, one in which women, people of color, non-straight people are telling other versions, and white people and men and particularly white men are trying to hang onto the old versions and their own centrality. In Whose Story Is This? Rebecca Solnit appraises what's emerging and why it matters and what the obstacles are.

"The maps themselves are things of beauty."—The New York Times Explore the hidden histories of San Francisco, New Orleans, and New York with this brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas. From Rebecca Solnit, Rebecca Snedeker, and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro. In the past decade, Rebecca Solnit—aided by local writers, artists, historians, urbanists, ethnographers, and cartographers—has compiled three stunning atlases that have radically changed the way we think about place. Each atlas provides a vivid, complex look at the multi-faceted nature of a city as experienced by its different inhabitants, replete with the celebrations and contradictions that make up urban life. This three-volume paperback set contains: The original, gorgeously designed atlases—Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas; Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas; and Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas Three new and updated, full-color, fold-out posters for each city, including the popular “City of Women” mapA new and thoughtful essay by Rebecca Solnit reflecting on the project ten years after the publication of the first atlas A stunning collection, this boxed set is a perfect treasury of imagination and insight, a rich people’s history of these infinite cities.

Miehet selittävät minulle asioita on kulttimaineeseen noussut teos, jonka nimiessee on synnyttänyt arkipuheessa viljellyn termin miesselittäminen, ”mansplaining”. Kokoelman avaavassa kirjoituksessa Solnit kuvaa viihdyttävästi ja terävästi, kuinka moninaisissa tilanteissa ja huomaamattaan miehet vähättelevät naisen tietämystä ja toisaalta erehtyvät luulemaan liikoja omasta tietämyksestään. Solnit myös osoittaa, että vaikka arkipäivän miesselittäminen voi vaikuttaa harmittomalta, on naisten äänen vaientaminen aina vallankäyttöä, joka vaikuttaa väistämättä yhteiskuntaan ja sen tasa-arvoisuuteen. Muissa esseissä Solnit käsittelee muun muassa sukupuolittunutta väkivaltaa, Dominique Strauss-Kahnin tapausta, avioliittoa, Virginia Woolfia, sukupuolista häirintää, nimeämisen voimaa ja solidaarisuutta. Viiltävä, analyyttinen ja viihdyttävä kokoelma kuuluu jokaisen yhteiskunnasta ja vallasta kiinnostuneiden kirjahyllyyn. Kirjailija, historiantutkija ja aktivisti Rebecca Solnit (s. 1961) on kirjoittanut useita teoksia, jotka käsittelevät esimerkiksi feminismiä, historiaa ja sosiaalisia suhteita. Miehet selittävät minulle asioita on tuonut amerikkalaisen Solnitin laajemman yleisön tietoisuuteen.

"This slim book--seven essays, punctuated by enigmatic, haunting paintings by Ana Teresa Fernandez--hums with power and wit."--Boston Globe"The antidote to mansplaining."--The Stranger"Feminist, frequently funny, unflinchingly honest and often scathing in its conclusions."--Salon"Solnit tackles big themes of gender and power in these accessible essays. Honest and full of wit, this is an integral read that furthers the conversation on feminism and contemporary society."--San Francisco Chronicle Top Shelf"Solnit [is] the perfect writer to tackle the subject: her prose style is so clear and cool."--The New Republic"The terrain has always felt familiar, but Men Explain Things To Me is a tool that we all need in order to find something that was almost lost."--National PostIn her comic, scathing essay, "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, airing some of her own hilariously awful encounters. This updated edition with two new essays of this national bestseller book features that now-classic essay as well as "#YesAllWomen," an essay written in response to 2014 Isla Vista killings and the grassroots movement that arose with it to end violence against women and misogyny, and the essay "Cassandra Syndrome." This book is also available in hardcover. Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of eighteen or so books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including the books Men Explain Things to Me and Hope in the Dark, both also with Haymarket; a trilogy of atlases of American cities; The Faraway Nearby;A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster; A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Wanderlust: A History of Walking; and River of Shadows, Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at Harper's and a regular contributor to the Guardian.

"This is a reminder of hope and possibility, of kindness and compassion, and--perhaps most salient--imagination and liberty. Through the imaginations of our childhoods, can we find our true selves liberated in adulthood?"--Chelsea HandlerIn her debut children's book, Rebecca Solnit reimagines a classic fairytale with a fresh, feminist Cinderella and new plot twists that will inspire young readers to change the world, featuring gorgeous silhouettes from Arthur Rackham on each page. In this modern twist on the classic story, Cinderella, who would rather just be Ella, meets her fairy godmother, goes to a ball, and makes friends with a prince. But that is where the familiar story ends. Instead of waiting to be rescued, Cinderella learns that she can save herself and those around her by being true to herself and standing up for what she believes. Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books including Men Explain Things to Me, Call Them by Their True Names, Hope in the Dark, and The Mother of All Questions. Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) was a prominent British illustrator of many classic children's books from The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm to Sleeping Beauty. His watercolor silhouettes were featured in the original edition of Cinderella.

"Det är en av de behagligaste och mest bildande läsupplevelserna jag har haft" /Sinziana Ravini i GP Att gå till fots är inte bara att förflytta sig från en punkt till en annan. Det är också att ingå i ett sammanhang, befinna sig mitt i ett konkret och påtagligt landskap, ta del av alla de processer som ständigt pågår runt omkring en. Och det kan dessutom vara ett sätt att tänka och känna, eftersom själva gåendet har en egendomlig förmåga att stimulera våra sinnen och minnen och ge oss perspektiv också på sådant som inte finns där och då. Rebecca Solnits "Wanderlust" undersöker vad det innebär – och har inneburit – att gå till fots genom världen och vad författare, konstnärer, tänkare och andra har haft att säga om den saken. Solnit knyter till exempel an till antikens ständigt i rörelse stadda filosofer och låter oss följa med romantikens poeter på deras vandringar genom dramatiska och undersköna landskap. Men Wanderlust är också en ur fotgängarperspektiv skriven bok om surrealisternas outtömliga Parismiljöer och spelmanins neonglittrande Las Vegas. Det handlar om kulturhistoria i rymligast tänkbara bemärkelse – och om en genomtänkt kritik av vårt nuvarande och på många sätt inkapslade och inkapslande livsmönster. Själva gåendet kan dessutom, framhåller Solnit, få en subversiv kollektiv dimension. Protestmarscher handlar ju inte heller bara om att förflytta sig från en punkt till en annan. Wanderlust är en bok som intar en central position i Solnits författarskap genom att förena den mer associativa och personliga reflektionsformen i "Gå vilse" och "Det avlägset nära" med de makt- och kulturkritiska resonemangen och den politiska analysen i Män förklarar saker för mig och andra av hennes böcker.

Længe før MeToo-kampagnen blev Rebecca Solnit et feministisk ikon, da hun med sit veloplagte essay Mænd forklarer mig ting satte ord på den lettere nedladende og selvsmagende måde, hvorpå visse mænd forklarer kvinder noget, de allerede ved. Essayet gik sin sejrsgang over hele verden, og begrebet mansplaining, der efterfølgende opstod, blev udråbt til et af årets ord af New York Times og er siden gledet ind i dagligsproget. I disse to essaysamlinger ser hun nærmere på kønsroller og magtforhold. Hun ser på den systematiske kvindeundertrykkelse og vold mod kvinder, der ligger i visse former for magtudøvelse, om det så drejer sig om gruppevoldtægter i busser, krænkelser på campus eller en toppolitikers overgreb på en stuepige i New York. Og hun ser på undertrykkelsen og fortielsen, på hvordan kvinder – og mænd – tvinges til tavshed. Blandt andet under Anita Hill-kontroversen fra 1991, hvor højesteretskandidaten Clarence Thomas blev anklaget for sexchikane, men endte med at blive godkendt - i en forbløffende parallel til Brett Kavanaugh-sagen, der aktuelt udspiller sig i USA. Hun inddrager også kunst og kultur og skriver om den skrøbelige maskulinitet i den litterære kanon og om de 80 bøger enhver kvinde bør undgå. Og endelig skriver hun om den nye feminisme, hun ser vokse frem, særligt blandt de unge, som er ved at forandre vores syn på sex, samtykke, magt, rettigheder, køn og repræsentation. Bogen er en samlet udgave af den amerikanske historiker og aktivist Rebecca Solnits ikoniske essaysamlinger Mænd forklarer mig ting og opfølgeren Alle spørgsmåls moder. Pressen skriver: ››Solnits essays er veloplagte, sjove, gennemarbejdede og velskrevne og fulde af de små ting, som vi skylder hinanden - både mænd og kvinder - at være mere opmærksomme på. Hendes grundighed og måde at gennemskue virkeligheden på er dybt inspirerende. ‹‹ ***** – Femina ››Rebecca Solnits to essaysamlinger Mænd forklarer mig ting og Alle spørgsmåls moder, der nu udgives samlet på dansk, handler i høj grad om tavshed… De er som den kontante, morsomme og ikke mindst rammende replik, man drømmer om at komme med, når nogen siger noget dumt.‹‹ – Information ››Efter at have læst den amerikanske historiker og kulturkritiker Rebeccas Solnits to essaysamlinger Mænd forklarer mig ting og Alle spørgsmåls moder går det med nogen forsinkelse op for mig, at det er nødvendigt at skue grundigt indad… Hendes dybe indignation over måden, kvinder har været reduceret til parenteser i kulturhistorien indtil slutningen af 1960erne, og stadig med et heftigt efterslæb, er stærkt brændstof. ‹‹ – Weekendavisen ››der er en uforskrækkethed over hendes essays… Fra voldtægt til Trump, over miljøaktivisme, ulighedsdebatter, skoleskyderier og det kulturelle ønske om kvinders tavshed. Altsammen båret af et ukrænkeligt håb om forandring. ‹‹ – Berlingske ››Begge essaysamlinger handler om tavshed og opgøret med den. Både den tavshed, talende mænd pålægger kvinder, når de afbryder dem, den tavshed, ofre for overgreb tvinges ind i, eller den tavshed angående følelser, som patriarkatet pålægger mænd… Solnit er popfeminismens store stjerne… spiddende og morsom…‹‹ – Politiken ››Rebecca Solnit har uden tvivl styr på hvad hun skriver om, og det emmer samlingen, eller rettere samlingerne, af. Der er ingen tvivl om at jeg skal læse mere af hende! Mænd forklarer mig ting / Alle spørgsmåls moder er en af de bedste essay-samlinger jeg længe har læst og uden tvivl også en af de bedste feministiske værker. En uforglemmelig, berigende læseoplevelse som jeg kun kan anbefale hvis man interesserer sig for emnet. ‹‹ – Frk. Litteratur ››Hvis man var i tvivl om, at #metoo ikke er for det bedste og fuld berettiget, så burde man tage at læse den her bog. Den sætter det hele i perspektiv. Og jeg tror ikke, at der

Surveying the transformation of San Francisco in the early millenium by Silicon Valley, critically acclaimed writer Rebecca Solnit and photographer Susan Schwartzenberg describe the complex interactions that make up a living, creative, diverse city. One of our most impassioned and acclaimed chroniclers of American urbanism, Rebecca Solnit explores the impact of skyrocketing rents, architectural homogenization, and the links between artists and gentrification. Wealth, she argues, is just as capable of ravaging cities as poverty. Schwartzenberg's social documentary photographs work with Solnit's interlinked essays to memorialize San Francisco's vanishing spaces of civic memory and public life. Both a portrait of an acute crisis and a call to defend collective public life, Hollow City makes a fervent case for the imaginative potential of cities.

Den amerikanske forfatteren Rebecca Solnit er en av våre absolutt skarpeste nålevende essayister. Hun er en like stor fornøyelse å lese uansett tema, men i hennes ofte like politiske som litterære krøniker har hun en forkjærlighet for rommet og landskapet som omdreiningspunkt. I Å gå seg vill - en felthåndbok er det nettopp landskapet hun tar utgangspunkt i. Behovet for og lykken ved å miste orienteringsevnen i landskapet danner en metafor for nødvendigheten av å trø utenfor de oppmerkede stiene, de vante strukturene og den tvingende vanens overmakt,, et poeng som harmonerer godt med Solnits ofte radikale analyser av det moderne vestlige samfunnet. "Solnits nærvær, åpenhet og forståelse er vidunderlig, hun er som en generøs venn, bare mye smartere enn du selv. Dette er fantastisk lesing." Jenny Maria Nilsson, Helsingborgs Dagblad "Å gå seg vill er ikke en bok som coacher en inn på den rette veien eller viser hvordan man finner hjem. Tvert i mot er den en stimulerende og merkelig oppløftende forsvarstale for terra incognita, det vi overser, ikke vet, det uopplyste og tapte i historien." Pia Bergström, Aftonbladet

Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books including the international bestseller Men Explain Things to Me. Called "the voice of the resistance" by the New York Times, she has emerged as an essential guide to our times, through her incisive commentary on feminism, violence, ecology, hope, and everything in between. In this powerful and wide-ranging collection, Solnit turns her attention to battles over meaning, place, language, and belonging at the heart of the defining crises of our time. She explores the way emotions shape political life, electoral politics, police shootings and gentrification, the life of an extraordinary man on death row, the pipeline protest at Standing Rock, and the existential threat posed by climate change. Changing the world means changing the story, the names, and the language in which we describe it. Calling things by their true names can also cut through the lies that excuse, disguise, avoid, or encourage inaction, indifference, obliviousness in the face of injustice and violence.