Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

Great book and so thankful you helped them have a voice…TO BE HEARD…. I’m a close friend to 1 of the women you wrote about and also a survivor myself of constant rape from an uncle for years. Grateful that my friend has you to help her be heard…keep up the good work…

Great seller! If they are selling books I’d recommend using them for your purchase. Kind, respectful and professional! I used this book for a research project and I love Kate and her insights.

When I saw this title, it seemed that it would help illuminate circumstances regarding male and female relationships today. I had read Krakauer’s “Missoula” about a case of sexual abuse (see my review), but wanted to delve into other dimensions of gender relationships and their effects. As a man, I got more than I bargained for in this book---- a painful, but necessary read.More specifically, the contents of the book include 10 chapters: (1) Indelible: On the Entitlement of Privileged Men; (2) Involuntary: On the Entitlement to Admiration; (3) Unexceptional: On the Entitlement to Sex; (4) Unwanted: On the Entitlement to Consent; (5) Incompetent: On the Entitlement to Medical Care; (6) Unruly: On the Entitlement to Bodily Control; (7) Insupportable: On the Entitlement to Domestic Labor; (8) Unassuming: On the Entitlement to Knowledge; (9) Unelectable: On the Entitlement to Power; and (10) Un-Despairing: On the Entitlement of Girls. There are also Acknowledgements, Notes, and an Index.Many contemporary issues are mentioned such as incidents surrounding alleged (or convicted) abusers like Brett Kavanaugh, Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein, Kevin Spacey as well as the controversy surrounding “Me Too!”, abortion and their impact on women. Even with the intensity associated with these matters, the parts that stood out for me the most personally were those related to roles of men and women in the home. For instance, as author Kate Manne points out (in Kindle Location 1822-24) that “[the myth of equal partnership] casts a long shadow over many heterosexual households: mothers with male partners are doing far more than their fair share of the child-rearing and housework.” Going on, she expands (Location 1843-63) that “Around the world, women average between two and ten times more of this work than their male counterparts . . . One reason why men don’t do more may well be obliviousness—a willful, and comparatively blissful, state of ignorance.” Later (Location 1994), Manne explains that “Part of the reason why men get away with doing so little may be that, as recent research suggests, women in heterosexual couples are held to higher standards than their mates.” As I went through such passages, I could relate better to my mother’s anger as I was growing up even as we pitched in at home particularly when we got older and she went back to work. My thoughts went to the other women who have been in my life and my lack of awareness.While the book covers much ground, some areas could have used more attention such as the plight of women of color and those in other societies as well as women’s issues related to careers and work. Books that come to mind were Davis’s “Women, Race, and Class,” Nafisi's "Reading Lolita in Tehran” that discuss more overt repression; then there is Schwartz and Riss’s “Work Disrupted: Opportunity, Resilience, and Growth in the Accelerated Future of Work” which does not deal enough with women’s particular challenges. I also thought of Adichie’s “We Should All Be Feminists” and Paglia’s “Free Women, Free Men” as worthy ideals (see my reviews of all these books).Along these lines, the author ends in a place where we should all be concerned----our daughters, granddaughters, sisters as well as our sons or sons in law and grandsons. In her words (Location 2740-44) “. . . as parents, we want better for our daughter . . . having a girl . . . came as a slight relief to me. The prospect of raising a boy to be confident and joyful, yet appropriately mindful of his own privilege, seemed [daunting].” Hopefully, those of us men who read this book can become more conscious and better assist with these efforts.

In her previous book “Down Girl: the Logic of Misogny,” Kate Manne introduced me to the idea that philosophy could speak to the common lived experience of women. In “Entitled,” Kate Manne has continued to make the philosophical exploration of misogyny relevant and accessible to an every day reader. Even more so that in her previous book, Kate Manne crystallizes in simple language the concerns and questions about how we can examine the “entitlement” of men in order to bring women and non-binary people to the same level of autonomy and freedom that men enjoy.As an aside, the pun of a book being *titled* “Entitled” continues to give me tremendous joy in an of itself. Kate Manne’s facility with language and the organization of her book feels like a filing system for ideas which otherwise were a jumble of loose papers scattered in my mind. I highly recommend.

I will confess at the outset that I am a big Kate Manne fan. I have recommended her first book, Down Girl, so many times to anyone who shows any interest in understanding how the patriarchy uses misogyny to reinforce the social order and keep women in their place. Entitled is an excellent second book because it beautifully builds on what Down Girl began by focusing on how the patriarchy and misogyny manifests in the way men and women see themselves and what their place in the world should be. It affects - literally - everything in our society and Manne does a great job using essential issues of the day (starting with the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings and moving to other issues like bodily autonomy and domestic labor) as powerful lenses to show how our society tells men what they deserve while telling women what they owe. It's so well-written and moving and I can't wait to start recommending alongside Manne's other work.

This book makes me feel ashamed. Ashamed that I'm male, one of "them".I considered myself better than many men around me when it comes to the topics discussed in this book. But as always, when you look bit more into any topic, you realize how much you didn't know. And it uncovered many biases I have either ignored or actually entertained.This book gives a grim overlook about how our society years women, especially to be as a father of two girls. But it also gives me much better understanding what's in store and what should I prepare them for. Even though the book different give any positive prospects, as author says in last chapter, it helps me to raise my children to understand what they are and aren't entitled to.I recommend this book to anyone who can read.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I also enjoyed how the author ended on a positive note. The chapters were dense but well written, so it was easy to devour it. I also appreciated further reading recommendations at the end of the book.

Prepare-se para chorar de raiva, de ódio, de nojo mas tb pra rir pra não chorar mais pro fim, já que vai dos assuntos mais pesados pros menos, e terminar se não com esperança ao menos com algumas ideias do que fazer e como continuar.

Kate Manne writes an informative and extremely important message in Entitled. I spent years in therapy working through the impact of abuse in my childhood and my therapist would say ‘I want you to feel entitled’! Reading Kate’s book and understanding the complexity of why this is so hard for women from an intellectual perspective is so helpful.

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This is an excellent book for exposing and highlighting the hidden assumptions about who is entitled to what--specifically along gender lines. The author continues in the same vein as her previous work, Down Girl, to build upon her categorization of misogyny and sexism and to highlight some of the practical ways those manifest. I highly recommend giving this a read, especially as the USA faces an election and Canada faces a possible one.