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And it makes me believe we can, and we must, fight for change' Caroline Criado-PerezInspiring everyone from radical activists to Beyoncé Knowles, Rebecca Solnit's essay 'Men Explain Things to Me' has become a touchstone of the feminist movement and established her as one of the leading thinkers of our time. Here it is collected along with the best of Solnit's feminist writings.From French sex scandals to the nuclear family, rape culture to mansplaining, Virginia Woolf to colonialism, these essays are a fierce and incisive exploration of the issues that a patriarchal culture will not necessarily acknowledge as 'issues' at all. 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And in her dialogue with the author, she makes fascinating forays into colonial legacies in the flower garden, discovers photographer Tina Modotti's roses, reveals Stalin's obsession with growing lemons in impossibly cold conditions, and exposes the brutal rose industry in Colombia.A fresh reading of a towering figure of the 20th century which finds solace and solutions for the political and environmental challenges we face today, Orwell's Roses is a remarkable reflection on pleasure, beauty, and joy as acts of resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"B66ks","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":50981019025739,"sku":"2008240","price":5.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/51CYM98phPL._SY291_BO1204203200_QL40_ML2__eb5bc00d_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1734345121"},{"product_id":"a-field-guide-to-getting-lost","title":"A Field Guide to Getting Lost","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this investigation into loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. A Field Guide to Getting Lost takes in subjects as eclectic as memory and mapmaking, Hitchcock movies and Renaissance painting.Beautifully written, this book combines memoir, history and philosophy, shedding glittering new light on the way we live now.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Canongate","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":51026495013195,"sku":"2237333","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"men-explain-things-to-me","title":"Men Explain Things to Me","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished as a standalone on International Woman's Day, the essay that became a touchstone of the feminist movement and inspired the term 'mansplaining', with an afterword on its origins.This famous and influential essay, which describes the time when, at a party, a man explained to Rebecca Solnit the argument of her own book, inspired the term 'mansplaining' and established Solnit as a vital figure of the feminist movement, and one of the leading thinkers of our time. 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