Call Them by Their True Names

American Crises (and Essays)

Author: Rebecca Solnit
ISBN: 9781608469468

National Book Award Longlist Kirkus Prize Finalist "Rebecca Solnit is essential feminist reading." --The New Republic "Solnit's exquisite essays move between the political and the personal, the intellectual and the earthy." --Elle Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books, including the international bestsellerMen Explain Things to Me. Called "the voice of the resistance" by theNew 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. The work of ch

Publisher: Haymarket Books
Publish Date: 2018

Subjects: Literary Collections / Essays, Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Social Science / Violence in Society

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