TY - BOOK AU - Solnit,Rebecca AU - Calzada,Paz de la TI - The mother of all questions SN - 9781608467402 AV - HQ1155 .S668 2017 U1 - 305.42 23 PY - 2017///] CY - Chicago, Illinois PB - Haymarket Books KW - Social Science KW - Women's Studies KW - Feminism KW - Sex differences (Psychology) KW - Women KW - Violence against KW - Essays KW - Sex differences (Psychology.) KW - HUMOR KW - bisacsh KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Feminism & Feminist Theory KW - fast KW - sears KW - lcgft N1 - Introduction -- The mother of all questions -- Silence is broken. A short history of silence ; An insurrectionary year ; Feminism: the men arrive ; One year after seven deaths ; The short happy recent history of the rape joke -- Breaking the story. Escape from the five-million-year-old suburb ; The pigeonholes when the doves have flown ; 80 books no woman should read ; Men explain Lolita to me ; The case of the missing perpetrator ; Giantess N2 - In this collection of essays, Solnit offers a timely commentary on gender and feminism. Her subjects include women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the recent history of rape jokes, and much more ER -