{"product_id":"call-them-by-their-true-names","title":"Call Them by Their True Names","description":"About the Author  Rebecca Solnit is author of, among other books, Call Them By Their True Names, The Mother of All Questions, Men Explain Things to Me, Wanderlust, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, the NBCC award-winning River of Shadows and A Paradise Built in Hell. A contributing editor to Harper's, she writes regularly for the London Review of Books and the Los Angeles Times. She lives in San Francisco.  Product Description  Beginning with the election of Donald Trump (\"The Loneliest Man in the World\") and expanding back and forth into American history, surveillance, violence against the individual, the denormalizing of misogyny and the rehumanizing of public space. The ultimate focus of the book is climate and feminist activism, bringing Solnit's trademark deep analysis to bear on a range of contemporary crises. And again, and spectacularly, she shows us how to hope.  From the Inside Flap  \"Rebecca Solnit is essential feminist reading.\" -The New Republic  \"Solnit's exquisite essays move between the political and the personal, the intellectual and the earthy.\" -Elle  Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books, including the international bestseller Men Explain Things to Me. Called \"the voice of the resistance\" by the New York Times, she has emerged as an essential guide to our times, through her incisive commentary on feminism, violence, ecology, hope, and everything in between.  In this powerful and wide-ranging collection, Solnit turns her attention to battles over meaning, place, language, and belonging at the heart of the defining crises of our time. She explores the way emotions shape political life, electoral politics, police shootings and gentrification, the life of an extraordinary man on death row, the pipeline protest at Standing Rock, and the existential threat posed by climate change.  The work of changing the world sometimes requires changing the story, the names, and inventing or popularizing new names and terms and phrases. Calling things by their true names can also cut through the lies that excuse, disguise, avoid, or encourage inaction, indifference, obliviousness in the face of injustice and violence.  From the Back Cover  Beginning with the election of Donald Trump (\"The Loneliest Man in the World\") and expanding back and forth into American history, surveillance, violence against the individual, the denormalizing of misogyny and the rehumanizing of public space. The ultimate focus of the book is climate and feminist activism, bringing Solnit's trademark deep analysis to bear on a range of contemporary crises. And again, and spectacularly, she shows us how to hope.","brand":"Granta Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40904039956565,"sku":"9781783784974N","price":7.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/files\/fe2f9cff-d0d1-4a7d-823c-505f9f54238a.jpg?v=1727349342","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/products\/call-them-by-their-true-names","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}