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Men Explain Things To Me By Rebecca Solnit Summary

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In Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things To Me, she identifies the struggle that takes place in an work environment, bedroom, classroom and newspapers where women are constantly underrepresented and silenced. Because of this symbolic violence, women that grew up to have a voice are binded to “the rights of the voiceless”(Solnit 25). Woolf and Solnit would agree with one another to the extent that men are seen to be higher in ranking while women see themselves to have “self-limitation” that only “exercises men’s unsupported overconfidence” (Solnit 27). Solnit uses a example of “mansplaining” to defend her claim that women are constantly silenced. The idea of “mansplaining” is the cockyness and cluelessness men have to portray why a woman
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