num_pages: 269
description: An urgent exploration of mens entitlement and how it serves to police and punish women from the acclaimed author of Down Girl.In this bold and stylish critique Cornell philosopher Kate Manne offers a radical new framework for understanding misogyny. Ranging widely across the culture from Harvey Weinstein and the Brett Kavanaugh hearings to Cat Person and the political misfortunes of Elizabeth Warren Mannes book shows how privileged mens sense of entitlementto sex yes but more insidiously to admiration care bodily autonomy knowledge and poweris a pervasive social problem with often devastating consequences.In clear lucid prose Manne argues that male entitlement can explain a wide array of phenomena from mansplaining and the undertreatment of womens pain to mass shootings by incels and the seemingly intractable notion that women are unelectable. Moreover Manne implicates each of us in toxic masculinity: Its not just a product of a few bad actors; its something we all perpetuate conditioned as we are by the social and cultural mores of our time. The only way to combat it she says is to expose the flaws in our default modes of thought while enabling women to take up space say their piece and muster resistance to the entitled attitudes of the men around them.With wit and intellectual fierceness Manne sheds new light on gender and power and offers a vision of a world in which women are just as entitled as men to our collective care and concern.
language: English
title: Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
publisher: Crown