MashReads Podcast: Can we put an end to mansplaining?

On this week's 'MashReads Podcast,' we discuss Rebecca Solnit's feminist essay collection 'Men Explain Things To Me
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Raise your hand if you've ever been mansplained to.

If your hand is in the air right now, you are not alone. 


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On this week's episode of our MashReads Podcast, we discuss Rebecca Solnit's book Men Explain Things To Me, a feminist essay collection that explores how gender affects everything from gun violence to the International Monetary Fund. It was Solnit's title essay, "Men Explain Thing To Me," that inspired the conversation from which the term "mansplaining" emerged.

Join us as we discuss Men Explain Things To Me, our experiences with mansplaining and our favorite feminist books.


Also, next week we will be reading Williams Shakespeare's The Tempest. We hope you'll read along with us.

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