Exploring the complexities of living in an unruly human body, this book delves into themes of identity, resilience, and the struggles associated with physicality. With a blend of elegance and fierce honesty, it offers profound insights that resonate deeply with readers. Esteemed author Roxane Gay endorses it as essential reading, highlighting its relevance to anyone navigating the challenges of self-acceptance and bodily autonomy.
Die Logik der Misogynie
'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.
Down Girl is a broad, original, and far ranging analysis of what misogyny is and how it works. The philosopher Kate Manne argues that modern society's failure to recognize women's full humanity and autonomy is not actually the problem. She argues instead that it is women's manifestations of human capacities -- autonomy, agency, political engagement -- is what engenders misogynist hostility.
Introduction : eating her words -- Threatening women -- Ameliorating misogyny -- Discriminating sexism -- Taking his (out) -- Humanizing hatred -- Exonerating men -- Suspecting victims -- Losing (to) misogynists -- Conclusion : the giving she.