Books written by Rebecca Solnit
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Windmill: The Hofstra Journal for Literature and Art: Spring 2017
Windmill: The Hofstra Journal for Literature and Art: Spring 2017
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Whose Story Is This?: Old Conflicts, New Chapters
In 2011, when Dominique Strauss-Kahn, then the head of the International Monetary Fund, allegedly—a word I must use because the prosecutor dropped the criminal case, as he often did when it came to powerful men—sexually assaulted a New ...
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The Mother of All Questions
In 2011, when Nafissatou Diallo, a room cleaner at an upscale hotel in Manhattan, was sexually assaulted by the head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, she was vilified and discredited in the media, ...
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Men Explain Things to Me
As Christopher Dickey wrote in the Daily Beast, Strauss-Kahn “claims that his less-than-seven-minute sexual encounter with this woman he'd never met before was consensual. To be- lieve him, you'd have to buy the line that Diallo took ...
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Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Hidden Wars of the American West
246: John McPhee in the New Yorker articles which later appeared as Assembling California (New York: Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 1993). FRAMING THE VIEW The history of landscape exists in many versions. Among the books I have relied on in ...
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Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
(For a minor example, in Tristes Tropiques, Claude Levi-Strauss compares speaking of his research to an unreceptive audience to dropping stones down a well, an analogy few would be likely to make nowadays.) The majority of figures of ...
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Men Explain Things to Me: And Other Essays
From rape culture to mansplaining, from French sex scandals to marriage and the nuclear family, from Virginia Woolf to colonialism, these essays are a fierce and incisive exploration of the issues that a patriarchal culture will not ...
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Mænd forklarer mig ting
Rebecca Solnit blev et ikon, da hun med sit skarpe og veloplagte essay Mænd forklarer mig ting satte ord på den lidt nedladende måde, nogle mænd forklarer kvinder noget, de allerede ved.
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Menn forklarer meg ting
Rebecca Solnit er en amerikansk historiker og aktivist. Hun har skrevet en rekke bøker om bl.a. miljø, kunst og politikk. Omtalen er utarbeidet av BS.
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Gli uomini mi spiegano le cose
In questa selezione dei suoi scritti femministi più noti, Rebecca Solnit spiega perché ciò accade e ne sottolinea il lato grottesco.
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After the Ruins, 1906 and 2006: Rephotographing the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
They include the anonymous photographers who worked for the Bear Photo Company , Stewart & Rogers , and the Padilla Brothers as well as such individuals as Louis J. Stellman , Willard E. Worden , and Arnold Genthe .
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Una guía sobre el Arte de Perderse
La charla en el Centro Zen de San Francisco fue ofrecida por el abad Paul Haller. El libro en el que se mencionaba a mi padre era Saving the Marin-Sonoma Coast, de L. Martin Griffin, publicado en 1998. Índice Portada El arte de perderse ...
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Die Kunst, sich zu verlieren: Ein Wegweiser
Der Vortrag im San Francisco Zen Center wurde von Abt Paul Haller gehalten. S. 194. Der Name meines Vaters wurde erwähnt in: L. Martin Griffin, Saving the Marin–Sonoma Coast. The Battles for Audubon Canyon Ranch, Point Reyes, ...
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Savage Dreams: A Journey Into the Hidden Wars of the American West
... 334–335 Swasey, William, 333 Szilard, Leo, 106, 128–130, 353–354 Taylor, Rose, 275-276 Teller, Edward, l 19, 133, ... 252 Ward, Sam, 346 Ward Valley, CA, 70 Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 13 Watkins, Carleton, 221, 235–237, 245–246 Weed, ...
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Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas
A no o Vo o S. Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919), steel and railroad magnate of magnates, builds his Carnegie mansion ... his business and family from Ohio to New York (1885) Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794–1877), shipping and railroad tycoon, ...
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Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
After the club's executive committee voted to try to preserve the dunes , board president Will Siri privately negotiated to have the plant moved to Diablo Canyon . Once again , too late , Sierra Club activists discovered that Diablo ...
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Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas
Over in the East Bay, botanist Mary Bowerman was the first to discover the immense biodiversity of Mount Diablo, in the 1930s. She founded Save Mount Diablo, and today open space covers almost the entire peak (a model later adopted by ...
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The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness
The Abalone Alliance, whose name was inspired by new england's antinuclear Clamshell Alliance, began protesting Diablo Canyon Power Plant on the central California coast. At the August 7, 1977, demonstration against the poorly designed ...
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River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
September: Muybridge photographs at Point Bonita on the north side of the Golden Gate, including views of the stranded ship Costa Rica, which went aground at Point Diablo here in September 1873. He seems to have photographed San Quentin ...
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Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)
But they did inspire a sister organization, the Abalone Alliance in central California, which used similar strategies to try to stop the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant. The groups protested against two particular nuclear power plants ...