Kate Manne Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Writer and philosophy professor at Cornell. Author of DOWN GIRL, ENTITLED, and UNSHRINKING (coming January 2024). https://t.co/U5FAzAnNv3. She/her
Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming
Agnes CallardKate ManneI wasn't going to say anything. But it feels like a good time to make a broader point I've been thinking about for a while: Agnes Callard's work on aspiration misses the entire social fabric against which aspiration actually occurs. Much of it damning https://t.co/EPUoze6WpO
Paperback, 2019
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Y. DavisKate Manne"Deviant men have been constructed as criminal, while deviant women have been constructed as insane." ~Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete?
Paperback, 2003
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Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women
Kate ManneKate Manne"One of the qualities that makes Manne’s writing bracing and even thrilling to read is her refusal to ingratiate herself by softening the edges of her resolve." I'm beyond thrilled by this review of Entitled by the brilliant @jenszalai in @nytimes today. https://t.co/aBz6MCTj3V
Paperback, 2021
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What We Don't Talk about When We Talk about Fat
Aubrey GordonKate Manne@SophieSlutsky @victoriagarrick Great job! 👏 I'd also recommend, in addition to these great further recommendations, Aubrey Gordon's work on fatphobia beyond bad body image (in the first few chapters of What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk about Fat) as further food for thought.
Paperback, 2021
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Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
Ruth Ben-GhiatKate Manne@_beccaharrison Indeed. People thought I was being flip. Quite the opposite. I was thinking of family annihilators and Ruth Ben-Ghiat's work on strongmen and expressing despair and panic, first, for the people of Ukraine and, second, for the world.
Paperback, 2021
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The Giving Tree
Shel SilversteinKate ManneSome people are suggesting Shel Silverstein was a subversive genius sensitive to women's plight in The Giving Tree. Unfortunately I don't think so. https://t.co/mk8leyqeSF https://t.co/bDstjnfuLu
Hardcover, 2014
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The Witches Are Coming
Lindy WestKate ManneRT @emrazz: For seeing: The Witches Are Coming, by Lindy West For understanding: Entitled, by Kate Manne For thriving: The Seven Necessary…
Paperback, 2021
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Normativity
Judith Jarvis ThomsonKate ManneMaybe then teach my old mentor Judith Jarvis Thomson. Better yet, skip her famous piece on abortion, which was pre-Roe and relentlessly apolitical, and teach some of her later, brilliant, under-studied work on normativity. Fin.
Paperback, 2008
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Sweet Enough: A Dessert Cookbook
Alison RomanKate ManneBrought on by Alison Roman's title for her dessert book, Sweet Enough. I am sure the recipes are fine. But the cool girl posturing irritates me, sorry
Hardcover, 2023
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Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
Kate ManneKate Manne"[Merrill Garbus] says she credits the book Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny by Kate Manne with illuminating what was holding her back from writing music about her experience as a woman." All the feels. https://t.co/L55WdrxlFb
Paperback, 2019
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