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Don’t Heed the Haters: Albert Einstein’s Wonderful Letter of Support to Marie Curie in the Midst of Scandal

By Maria Popova

A master of beautiful consolatory letters and a champion of kindness as a central animating motive of life, Einstein wrote to Curie with wholehearted solidarity and support, encouraging her not to give any credence to the hateful commentaries in the press.

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Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference

It’s the twenty-first century, and although we tried to rear unisex children―boys who play with dolls and girls who like trucks―we failed. Even though the glass ceiling is cracked, most women stay comfortably beneath it.

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Cordelia Fine
2011
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The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society

Is our gender something we’re born with, or are we conditioned by society? In The End of Gender, neuroscientist and sexologist Dr. Debra Soh uses a research-based approach to address this hot-button topic, unmasking popular misconceptions about the nature vs.

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Debra Soh
2020
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Rebecca Solnit Reads from "The Mother of All Questions" & Discusses Hope & Resistance

Part 2 of our conversation with Rebecca Solnit, one of the nation’s most celebrated writers.

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Rebecca Solnit
2017
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Rebecca Solnit on What Makes Her Hopeful in the Age of Trump from MeToo to Anti-Gun Protests

Extended interview with author and activist Rebecca Solnit. Her acclaimed essay, “Men Explain Things to Me,” is celebrating its tenth anniversary this month.

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Rebecca Solnit
2018
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Book TV: Rebecca Solnit, “Men Explain Things to Me”

Rebecca Solnit, a contributing editor at Harper’s, talks about her book of essays on such topics as gender inequality, rape, hate crimes, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and gay marriage. She spoke at Moe’s Books in Berkeley, California.

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Rebecca Solnit
2014
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Whose Story Is This?: Old Conflicts, New Chapters

Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle royale over that foundational power, one in which women, people of color, non-straight people are telling other versions, and white people and men and particularly white men are trying to hang onto the old versions and...

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Rebecca Solnit
2019
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Men Explain Things to Me

In her comic, scathing essay, "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women.

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Rebecca Solnit
2015
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The Good Men Project: Real Stories from the Front Lines of Modern Manhood

The Good Men Project: Real Stories from the Front Lines of Modern Manhood is more than a book; it is the centerpiece of a national discussion about what manhood means today.

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Tom Matlack, James Houghton, Larry Bean
2010
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Amateur: A Reckoning with Gender, Identity, and Masculinity

In this “refreshing and radical” (The Guardian) narrative, Thomas McBee, a trans man, sets out to uncover what makes a man—and what being a “good” man even means—through his experience training for and fighting in a charity boxing match at Madison Square Garden.

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Thomas Page McBee
2019
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The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

Everyone needs to love and be loved—even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways that patriarchal culture keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving.

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bell hooks
2004
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