Kate Manne is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Cornell University, where she’s been teaching since 2013. Before that, she was a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Dr. Manne did her graduate work in philosophy at MIT and is the author of three books: “Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny,” “Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women,” and “Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia.”
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He Said, She Listened
Mansplaining, Gaslighting, and Epistemic Entitlement
Friday, February 19, 2021, 4:15pm EST
Event Overview
What are the underlying causes of misogyny? In many cases, it stems from a wrongheaded sense of moral entitlement to a woman’s sexual, emotional, reproductive, and material labor.
In this session, writer and philosopher Kate Manne will introduce another form of entitlement that can be thought of as epistemic: a sense of entitlement to be the designated knower or informant, or the agent who issues authoritative explanations. Professor Manne will connect the notion of epistemic entitlement with a variety of problematic behaviors, including mansplaining, gaslighting, and misogynistic anger at the expert testimony of women.
In this session, writer and philosopher Kate Manne will introduce another form of entitlement that can be thought of as epistemic: a sense of entitlement to be the designated knower or informant, or the agent who issues authoritative explanations. Professor Manne will connect the notion of epistemic entitlement with a variety of problematic behaviors, including mansplaining, gaslighting, and misogynistic anger at the expert testimony of women.
What You'll Learn
- How to understand paradigm cases of mansplaining
- How to understand paradigm cases of gaslighting
- The ways in which mansplaining and gaslighting are connected and explained by epistemic entitlement
- How epistemic entitlement negatively affects people in marginalized social positions, including women, people of color, and women of color in particular
Speaker
Kate Manne
Associate Professor, Sage School of Philosophy
Cornell College of Arts & Sciences
Associate Professor, Sage School of Philosophy, Cornell College of Arts & Sciences
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