Whose Story Is This?, Rebecca Solnit
Whose Story Is This?, Rebecca Solnit
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Whose Story Is This?
Old Conflicts, New Chapters

Author: Rebecca Solnit

Narrator: Kirsten Potter

Unabridged: 5 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/26/2019

Synopsis

New feminist essays for the #MeToo era from the internationally bestselling author of Men Explain Things to Me.

Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle royale over that foundational power, one in which women, people of color, and non-straight people are telling other versions, and white people and men (and particularly, white men) are trying to hang onto the old versions and their own centrality. In Whose Story Is This? Rebecca Solnit appraises what's emerging, why it matters, and what the obstacles are.

About Rebecca Solnit

Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including Call Them By Their True Names (winner of the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction), Men Explain Things to Me, The Mother of All Questions, and Hope in the Dark; a trilogy of atlases of American cities; The Faraway Nearby; A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster; A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Wanderlust: A History of Walking; and River of Shadows, Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at the Guardian.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Thomas on September 26, 2020

Another strong essay collection from prolific feminist writer, Rebecca Solnit. In Whose Story Is This?, she tackles an array of topics including voter suppression, climate change, and the ways in which we valorize and mourn for white men while ignoring the women they have harmed and abused. The most......more

Goodreads review by Julie on December 23, 2019

If I could wave a magic wand over myself, I would create a sparkly ability to orate masterfully, with zinging wit, unshakeable confidence, and an at-my-fingertips command of facts. As it is, my tongue gets wrapped around my emotions, my skin flushes with frustration, and my belly bottoms out, taking......more

Goodreads review by The Artisan Geek on January 02, 2020

2/1/20 First book of the year! And what a stunner it was! :) I read this and Solnit's children's book Cinderella Liberator for Emma Watson's feminist book club Our Shared Shelf. Both were incredibly insightful and I will be making a video about it soon - stay tuned! :) You can find me on Youtube | Inst......more

Goodreads review by Shari on October 18, 2019

I think Rebecca Solnit is one of the great and necessary voices in America, and I want everyone to read her. These essays fill me with both rage and hope, and I guess we need both to survive this country.......more

Goodreads review by Alyssa on September 06, 2019

Another autumn, another collection of essays by Rebecca Solnit. I could get used to this rhythm! Solnit's collection of essays in "Whose Story Is This" focuses on women, immigrants, and the earth (think climate change) -- stories that we usually discount or people that some may move off-stage. I tho......more

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