Kate Manne Quotes on Politics
Kate Manne’s Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny (2018) and Entitled (2020) give contemporary feminist political philosophy one of its most influential analytic treatments of misogyny and male entitlement. The central thesis of Down Girl is that misogyny — properly distinguished from the sexist ideology that rationalizes it — is best understood as the enforcement mechanism of patriarchal social structures: the system of social practices and dispositions that punishes women who fail to provide the feminine-coded goods (care, attention, deference, sexual access) the patriarchal order treats as their proper tribute, and that rewards women who do provide them. The framework, developed in the analytic moral-philosophy tradition trained on attention to the precise structure of contested concepts, shaped contemporary feminist analytic philosophy and the broader public engagement with the theoretical foundations of the post-2017 feminist political moment.
Quotes
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Attributed to Kate Manne:
“Sexism is the ideology that excuses misogyny; misogyny is the policing that enforces it.”
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Attributed to Kate Manne:
“Patriarchy is upheld less by hatred than by entitlement.”
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“We must distinguish what people believe about women from what people demand of women.”
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Attributed to Kate Manne:
“Bodies are policed in the service of someone else's comfort, and call it virtue.”
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Attributed to Kate Manne:
“Feminism is the labor of remembering whose pain has been made to count and whose has not.”