Capture The Mother Of All Questions Curated By Rebecca Solnit Shown As Script

muito da Solnit, é o segundo livro que leio dela e me apetece o modo que usa a linguagem de maneira mordaz para falar de coisas muito sérias.

O primeiro ensaio e mais longo do livro é um pequeno tratado sobre o silenciamento feminino dentro da sociedade patriarcal, Solnit destrincha todas as formas de silenciamento, desde o simples interromper frases numa conversa banal até deliberações da ordem da escuta masculina ao não levar em consideração até uma mulher dizendo não durante o estupro.

Os demais ensaios bem menores tratam de literatura, cinema, feminicidio, antropologia, entre outras coisas, todos embasados a partir de uma leitura misógina da mulher na sociedade e bem desconstruídos com a verve da Solnit.
Livrão. "Silence and shame are contagious so are courage and speech, Even now, when women begin to speak of their experience, others step forward to bolster the earlier speaker and to share their own experience, A brick is knocked loose, another one a dam breaks, the waters rush forth, "

Powerful essay collection by Rebecca Solnit, Felt very in line/on par with her other collection, sitelinkMen Explain Things to Me,

I think the key to fully appreciating this kind of book is preparing your expectations, As a cobbled together unit, they can be somewhat repetitive and disjointed,

There are also some real gems, inspired prose, and compelling truthsI remain a big fan of Solnit,

"These books are, if they are instructions at all, instructions in extending our identities out into the world, human and nonhuman, in imagination as a great act of empathy that lifts you out of yourself, not locks you down into your gender.
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sitelinkBooks No Woman Should Read, Rebecca Solnit One of my favorite essays of the bunch,

"Works of art that can accompany you through the decades are mirrors in which you can see yourself, wells in which you can keep dipping, They remind you that what you bring to the work of art is as important as what it brings to you, They can become registers of how youve changed, "

sitelinkGiantess, Rebecca Solnit

For an excellent review on this book with amazing highlights, check out Brain Pickings' sitelink"Rebecca Solnit on Breaking Silence as Our Mightiest Weapon Against Oppression.
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Defining silence as “what is imposed” and quietude as “what is sought,” Solnit contrasts the two:

Silence is the ocean of the unsaid, the unspeakable, the repressed, the erased, the unheard.
It surrounds the scattered islands made up of those allowed to speak and of what can be said and who listens, Silence occurs in many ways for many reasons each of us has his or her own sea of unspoken words,



The tranquility of a quiet place, of quieting ones own mind, of a retreat from words and bustle, is acoustically the same as the silence of intimidation or repression but psychically and politically something entirely different.
What is unsaid because serenity and introspection are sought is as different from what is not said because the threats are high or the barriers are great as swimming is from drowning.
Quiet is to noise as silence is to communication, The quiet of the listener makes room for the speech of others, like the quiet of the reader taking in words on the page, like the white of the paper taking ink.




We are our stories, stories that can be both prison and the crowbar to break open the door of that prison we make stories to save ourselves or to trap ourselves or others, stories that lift us up or smash us against the stone wall of our own limits and fears.
Liberation is always in part a storytelling process: breaking stories, breaking silences, making new stories, A free person tells her own story, A valued person lives in a society in which her story has a place,

"Every day each of us invents the world and the self who meets that world, opens up or closes down space for others within that.
Silence is forever being broken, and then like waves lapping over the footprints, the sandcastles and washedup shells and seaweed, silence rises again, "

sitelinkRebecca Solnit on Silence, Pornography, and Feminist Literature

Nie umiem jej ocenić, Są tutaj bardzo dobre fragmenty, bo Solnit pisze o rzeczach niezwykle ważnych, ale sposób w jaki to robi powtarzanie tego samego w każdym tekście, dziwna językowa metaforyka, wtrącenia, które nijak mają się do treści eseju sprawia, że jest to zbiór tekstów o wszystkim i o niczym.
Bardziej spodziewałabym, że przeczytam coś w takiej formie w Wysokich Obcasach, a nie w tym zbiorze esejów, Bardzo się zawiodłam. Książka ostatecznie rozczarowuje jest w niej całkiem ciekawy tekst na temat milczenia "Krótka historia milczenia", ale poza tym jest to spora porcja patosu, instagramowych bonmotów i ślizgania się po tematach, zamiast dokładniejszej analizy.
Szkoda, bo Solnit celnie wyłapuje bolączki patriarchalnego świata i aż się prosi, żeby na podstawie tych obserwacji sformułować jakąś konkretną propozycję odmiany tego stanu rzeczy, This was my first experience reading Rebecca Solnit, I was deeply impressed with the lyricism of her writing and the depth of her thinking, The Mother of All Questions is a collection of twelve feminist essays covering topics as diverse as motherhood, anthropology, literature, film, and sexual assault, While there is some overlap between essays, I generally found this collection to be insightful and thoughtprovoking,

Kate Scott



from The Best Books We Read In March: sitelink comriotr Okay, I figured I should probably add a little more to this review because I couldn't stop thinking about what it was that frustrated me, and I was able to pinpoint it to two things.


It's a smart and reflective collection of essays, but it wouldn't be the first text I'd recommend on feminism, There's a particular neglect to address intersectionality, which is an issue among many cis white women from my experience, You can't possibly talk about silencing women without considering BIWOC, especially Black women, But I was also frustrated with the very binary approach to gender or, rather, Solnit's exclusion of trans women, Bringing BIWOC back into the picture, you can't talk about silencing women without thinking about Black trans women,

Nevertheless, I will say that I still liked the way she framed silence by drawing from various feminist thinkers though, ironically, bell hooks is one of them.
To jest absolutnie czytelniczy must read dla każdego, a dla mnie to moja osobista książka roku, To nie tylko książka dla kobiet i o kobietach, ale też dla każdego, kto choć raz poczuł się nieakceptowany, niezrozumiany, czy po prostu gorszy, Niezależnie od powodu. W tej książce jest jedno bardzo mocne zdanie, wypowiedziane przez jedną z ofiar, które utkwiło mi głęboko w pamięci, Niby zwyczajne, a jednak uderza bardzo mocno, "Tak łatwo poczuć, że się nie nie znaczy", Prawda
.solnit'i seviyorum ve bu kitabı görünce çok heyecanlanmıştım ama açıkası memnun kalmadım okuduklarımdan,yıllarında çeşitli yerlerdeki yazıları derlenmiş, öncelikle tüm yazılar inanılmaz grafik, hepsinde tecavüz vakaları, mass shooting'ler, şiddet eylemleri öyle sereserpe yazılı, bir süre sonra rahatsız etmeye başladı beni, diğer bir konu ise bu yazılarda yeni bir argüman sunmaması solnit'in, internet okur yazarlığı olan herhangi birinin de yapabileceği değerlendirmelerden derine inmiyor konuştuğu şeyler, sadece hiçbir kadının okumaması gerekenkitap bölümünde çok eğlendim, keşke gerçektenkitap olsaymış,

muhtemelen yayınlandığı gibi çevrilse ve biz de'de değil'da okusak daha anlamlı olurdu ve belki de severdim,bu yazılar için çok geç artık, Intelligent, fierce, witty. This book is part of a trilogy that includes the very powerful book, reviewed by me, sitelinkMen Explain Things to Me, although it is a stand alone volume of essays.
Solnit continues to eloquently to describe the current status of women today, both celebrating our victories and calling out for further progress,

Solnit details the violence against women that continues to be a major cause of injury and death of women, especially at the hands of their significant others.
She shares the quote that "Men are afraid of women laughing at them women are afraid of men killing them, " She argues that the current power structure leaves men stripped of their emotional lives and women left often powerless and voiceless,

The present outpouring of women speaking up about sexual harassment and abuse is the result of years of women and the men who are our allies fighting for the voice of women to be heard.
years ago, evenyears ago women were afraid to speak out because they saw those who did, like Anita Hill, disbelieved, mocked and sometimes even imprisoned for doing so.
Today, these women are being heard, This may welcome in a time when women have a voice in their lives and in public discourse,

Solnit has a long and moving section about the silence of certain groups, women and other groupssuch as people of color and gays, It makes for powerful reading, I think of myself as a feminist but Solnit continually reveals areas of which I am unaware and often limited in my own thinking as well as creating an increased awareness of those issues that I consider myself knowledgeable in.
She is an extremely intelligent, awake woman and a powerful writer, Her arguments are wellthought out and strongly presented,

She also discusses marriage equality and how the increasing acceptance of gay marriage also changes our perception of heterosexual relationships and the power balance within those relationships and the entire structure of our society.


Reading Solnit provides strength and information for those who believe in the cause of changing the power structure of today's world and a balance of male/female relationships.
And, if people who disagree with her read this, they may find themselves with at least new food for thought, Wow. This book was just what I needed at this time in my life, This is my first essay collection by Rebecca Solnit, I own two others but decided I would read this one first after it was very kindly sent to me by the publisher,

This collection starts off with a BANG and ends with a BANG, It is told in two parts, Silence is Broken and Breaking the Story, Solnit's essays are unapologetically themselves and really have that "COME AT ME BRO" vibe radiating off of them, I was nervous at first that I'd be intimidated but her writing style is so immensely easy to get into yet she writes with such power and passion behind what she's stating.
She is a woman who knows what she's talking about and I LOVE how at times she comes off a little snarky, just added a bit of sass to such important topics.


There's no way you can read this collection of essays and NOT get fired up or start feeling antsy about how you can speak up and help make change.
I seriously want to start gifting this to everyone I know who is about to graduate high school and go out and experience the world on their own for the first time as a forewarning of the fact that there are assholes out there and history has shown that this is how certain situations get/don't get handled so be careful.
Be careful! Ha! Solnit mentions in the book how ridiculous that women have to go through their day to day so cautious but yes I want everyone to read this.
Everyone should Have to. One of the most intelligent feminist essay collections I have ever read, The Mother of All Questions brought tears to my eyes because of its beautiful language and brilliant ideas.
If you want a book to rile up your inner feminist and give you profound insights to smash the patriarchy, look no further, Rebecca Solnit addresses a wide range of important topics with her trademark incisive, fiery prose, including misogynistic violence, how we silence women's pain and men's expression of emotions other than anger, the ways we glorify white men in the literary canon at the expense of underrepresented voices, the recent history of rape jokes, and much more.
Every single essay felt like a treat, and every paragraph raced forward with trains of thought that propelled the feminist movement onward, as opposed to only articulating what other writers have already said.
For example, a longer passage about love and empathy and how masculinity can detract from these qualities and turn into sexual violence:

"Love is a constant negotiation, a constant conversation to love someone is to lay yourself open to rejection and abandonment love is something you can earn but not extort.
It is an arena in which you are not in control, because someone else also has rights and decisions it is a collaborative process making love is

at its best a process in which these negotiations become joy and play.
So much sexual violence is a refusal of that vulnerability so many of the instructions about masculinity inculcate a lack of skills and willingness to negotiate in good faith.
Inability and entitlement deteriorate into a rage to control, to turn a conversation into a monologue of commands, to turn the collaboration of making love into the imposition of assault and the assertion of control.
Rape is hate and fury taking love's place between bodies, It's a vision of the male body as a weapon and the female body in heterosexual rape as the enemy, What is it like to weaponize your body"

I read this book on a flight back from Las Vegas, where America's most recent most lethal mass shooting occurred.
My trip had made me feel sad and frustrated for many reasons, including seeing the aftermath of the shooting just a few days after it took place, And yet, The Mother of All Questions filled me with so much hope and determination, Solnit does not sugarcoat any of the issues she discusses, Rather, she delves deep into the historical, interpersonal, and cultural factors that cause so much sexism in contemporary America, She imbues each essay with a journalistic eye for detail and an endless amount of heart, And she elevates her writing by incorporating the horizon ideas that force us to take our feminism to new heights, to envision a world where men nurture instead of harm and women have freedom from violence, even if that world feels like a fool's fantasy right now.
Her prose blew me away with its forwardness, its eloquent twist and turns, and its humor, Another paragraph I loved, about how our culture normalizes movies where men get the majority of screen time:

"But such films are not described as boys' or men's films, but as films for all of us, while films with a similarly unequal amount of time allocated to female characters would inevitably be regarded as girls' or women's films.
Men are not expected to engage in the empathic extension of identifying with a different gender, just as white people are not asked, the way people of color are, to identify with other races.
Being dominant means seeing yourself and not seeing others privilege often limits or obstructs imagination, "

Overall, a phenomenal essay collection I would recommend to literally everyone, It may feel hard to hope in Trump's America, yet Solnit's masterful essay collection reminds us of why we must continue the feminist fight we have done so much and we have so much work to do.
Again, The Mother of All Questions serves as a genius and compassionate call to action that reminds us of our shared humanity and what we must do to defend it against the forces of sexism, racism, and more.
I will end this review with one final quote, about reconceptualizing what it means to love, outside of having kids:

"One of the reasons people lock onto motherhood as a key to feminine identity is the belief that children are the way to fulfill your capacity to love.
But there are so many things to love beside one's own offspring, so many things that need love, so much other work love has to do in the world.
While many people question the motives of the childless, who are taken to be selfish for refusing the sacrifices that come with parenthood, they often neglect to note that those who love their children intensely may have less love left for the rest of the world.
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