ARGONAUT BOOKS

This is a memoir from the author of 'Men Explain Things to Me' that asks how a young writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent. From the era of punk, growing gay pride and West Coast activism through to the latter years of second-wave feminism and the present day, this is the foundational story of an emerging artist struggling against violence and oppression. It is an electric account of the pauses and gains in feminism over the past forty years. Reviews Solnit taught me that activism is poetic. Her prose as clear and galvanising as it is beautiful....Read More