![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps that is why she talks so much about the double-standard of men and women walking: In “Walking After Midnight: Women, Sex, and Public Space, ” Solnit begins the discussion with three prerequisites for taking a walk: you need to have free time, you need to have a place to go, and you need to have a body unhindered by illness or social restraint (234). According to an interview given in September 2014 to the online publication Rookie, Solnit grew up in a house where everything female was hated, where her very gender was a disappointment (Donohue). She used these trips as a way to escape the life in her house, and this shaped her writings later in life. ![]() However, she says in “Open Door” from A Field Guide to Getting Lost that she was able to explore as a child she was trusted to walk by herself and rely on adventure to entertain her (7). Solnit spent her childhood years in an abusive household. Most striking about Solnit are her focus on gender issues, her attention to how women are treated, and her strong connection to walking. ![]() She is a contributing opinion writer to The Guardian US as well as a contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine. Rebecca Solnit, author of Wanderlust: A History of Walking, not only writes about the environment around her, but she is also a human rights activist, participating with the Western Shoshone Defense Project and was an anti-war activist during the George W. ![]()
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