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The Mother of All Questions
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Categories: Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences
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Publisher's Summary
In a timely and incisive follow-up to her national best seller Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit offers sharp 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 her characteristic style, Solnit mixes humor, keen analysis, and sharp insight in these 11 essays.
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- Geoff Rothschild
- 09-26-19
words (and the way they’re pronounced) matter.
i’ve downloaded many books recently read by narrators who egregiously mispronounce alarming numbers of words. this plea- to make it stop- goes out not only to the narrators in question, but to whomever is in the booth. kindly get a clue. IT’S A FREAKING AUDIO BOOK. IT’S KIND OF THE WHOLE POINT.
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