Unforgiven
Adam Phillips: ‘Down Girl’, 7 March 2019
Down Girl: the Logic of Misogyny
by Kate Manne.
Penguin, 338 pp., £9.99, March 2019,978 0 14 199072 9 Show More
by Kate Manne.
Penguin, 338 pp., £9.99, March 2019,
“... Down Girl is usefully and tellingly sceptical of all such ‘psychological’ explanations: Kate Manne describes them as the ‘naive conception of misogyny’. Misogyny is not, in her view, a ‘property of individual misogynists’ and therefore something we can find in particular people, even deep down inside themselves. It’s not that sort of ... ”