'Kate Manne is the Simone de Beauvoir of the 21st century' - Amanda Marcotte 'I want to press
this book 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?' Sophie McBain New Statesman 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 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.
