Entitled

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A vital exploration of gender politics from a highly influential intellectual who has been described as 'the philosopher of #MeToo'


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.

© Kate Manne 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Critics Review

  • I want to press it on every schoolgirl who thinks that feminism is uncool, any woman who thinks the most important gender battles are won, pretty much every man I know, and say, have you thought about this?

    New Statesman
  • With perspicacity and clear, jargon-free language, Manne keeps elevating the discussion to show how male privilege is an entire moral framework… The rage and sadness of the book is lifted by the final chapter in which she addresses her unborn daughter, wishing for her all the things she should feel entitled to… For Manne’s daughter and many others, this book will make that fight a little bit easier

    Guardian
  • Entitled presents a paradigm that maps neatly onto life in lockdown. . . Once again, Manne’s work is speaking to a moment that she could not have foreseen. . . Her concept of entitlement is versatile and useful; like the theory of gravity, it has equal power in explaining phenomena both big and small

    New Yorker
  • Kate Manne is the Simone de Beauvoir of the 21st century

    Amanda Marcotte
  • Entitled is not just timely, but timeless — sure to be part of the feminist canon

    Jessica Valenti
  • Incisive, perceptive and profound. . . an absolute must-read

    Soraya Chemaly

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