Kate Manne

Finalist, 2024 National Book Awards

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. Learn more >

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Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia

ISBN 9780593593837
Crown / Penguin Random House

For as long as she can remember, Kate Manne has wanted to be smaller. She can tell you what she weighed on any significant occasion: her wedding day, the day she became a professor, the day her daughter was born. She’s been bullied and belittled for her size, leading to extreme dieting. As a feminist philosopher, she wanted to believe that she was exempt from the cultural gaslighting that compels so many of us to ignore our hunger. But she was not. More about this book >

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Kate Manne

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. Manne did her graduate work in philosophy at MIT and is the author of two previous books, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny and Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women.

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