PositiveProspect (UK)Each essay deals with a particular subject: knowledge and authority; violence against women; equal marriage. But through each runs the understanding that these issues are all connected, a point too often overlooked: \'We would understand misogyny… better if we looked at the abuse of power as a whole rather than treating domestic violence separately from rape and murder and harassment and intimidation,\' she writes. The book is overshadowed by its title essay—an exceptional piece of writing to which some of the others struggle to match up. Nevertheless...this collection marks Solnit out as among the most thoughtful of the many energetic writers leading it.
