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    Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

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    ISBN: 9780141990743
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    AuthorManne, Kate
    Pub Date05/08/2021
    BindingPaperback
    Pages288
    Publisher: Penguin Books
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    'Kate Manne is the Simone de Beauvoir of the 21st century' - Amanda Marcotte

    'Incisive, perceptive and profound. . . an absolute must-read' - Soraya Chemaly


    A vital exploration of gender politics from a highly influential intellectual

    Male entitlement takes many forms. To sex, yes, but more insidiously to admiration, bodily autonomy, knowledge, power, even care. In this urgent intervention, philosopher Kate Manne offers a radical new framework for understanding misogyny.

    In clear-sighted, powerful prose, she ranges widely across the culture -- from the Kavanaugh hearings and 'Cat Person' to Harvey Weinstein and Elizabeth Warren -- to show how the idea that a privileged man is tacitly deemed to be owed something is a pervasive problem. Male entitlement can explain a wide array of phenomena, from mansplaining and the undertreatment of women's pain to mass shootings by incels and the seemingly intractable notion that women are 'unelectable'. The consequences for girls and women are often devastating.

    As Manne shows, toxic masculinity is not just the product of a few bad actors; we are all implicated, conditioned as we are by the currents of our time. With wit and intellectual fierceness, she sheds new light on gender and power and offers a vision of a world in which women are just as entitled as men to be cared for, believed and valued.