Rebecca Solnit's essay 'Men Explain Things to Me' has become a touchstone of the feminist movement; inspired the term 'mansplaining'; and established Solnit as one of the leading feminist thinkers of our time - one who has inspired everyone from radical activists to Beyonce Knowles. Collected here in print for the first time is the essay itself; along with the best of Solnit's feminist writings. 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 necessarily acknowledge as 'issues' at all. With grace and energy; and in the most exquisite and inviting of prose; Rebecca Solnit proves herself a vital leading figure of the feminist movement and a radical; humane thinker.