'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.
