Saturday, April 13, 2019

Review: Women and Power by Mary Beard, Down Girl by Kate Manne

"Misogyny, Manne explains, should be understood not as the psychology of individual men, but as "a property of social environments in which women are liable to encounter hostility due to the enforcement and policing of patriarchal norms and expectations . . . insofar as they violate patriarchal law and order"."