'Roxane Gay is so great at weaving the intimate and personal with what is most bewildering and upsetting at this moment in culture. Reading this book will move us beyond these fraught and compartmentalized lives, where we easily forget that we are whole humans having whole human experiences in our bodies. The purpose of this book is to get us to stop treating our bodies like cars, to stop acting as if our minds are not part of our bodies. Radical self love not only dismantles shame and self loathing in us, but has the power to dismantle global systems of injustice, because when we make true peace with our bodies, only then do we have the capacity to truly make peace with the bodies of the others. When we develop the ability to honor difference and radically accept ourselves, we have the capacity and desire to apply those skills to the larger world. Systems of oppression thrive off of our inability to make peace with bodies and difference. In a revolutionary departure from everything we've been told about body-positivity, The Body Is Not an Apology founder Sonya Renee Taylor explicitly makes the connection between radical self-acceptance and social justice. With wit and intellectual fierceness, Manne sheds new light on gender and power and offers a vision of a world in which women are just as entitled as men to our collective care and concern. The only way to combat it, she says, is to expose the flaws in our default modes of thought while enabling women to take up space, say their piece, and muster resistance to the entitled attitudes of the men around them.

In clear, lucid prose, Manne argues that 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.' Moreover, Manne implicates each of us in toxic masculinity: It's not just a product of a few bad actors it's something we all perpetuate, conditioned as we are by the social and cultural mores of our time. Ranging widely across the culture, from Harvey Weinstein and the Brett Kavanaugh hearings to 'Cat Person' and the political misfortunes of Elizabeth Warren, Manne's book shows how privileged men's sense of entitlement-to sex, yes, but more insidiously to admiration, care, bodily autonomy, knowledge, and power-is a pervasive social problem with often devastating consequences. Her work is indispensable.'-Rebecca Traister NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE ATLANTIC In this bold and stylish critique, Cornell philosopher Kate Manne offers a radical new framework for understanding misogyny. An urgent exploration of men's entitlement and how it serves to police and punish women, from the acclaimed author of Down Girl 'Kate Manne is a thrilling and provocative feminist thinker.

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