following the lead of the critical race theorist Charles Lawrence III (1987; 2008), this book primarily takes what he calls an “epidemiological” approach to matters of social justice. That is, I concentrate largely on moral diagnosis, or getting clear on the nature of misogyny, construed as a moral-cum-social phenomenon with political underpinnings. This is as opposed to making explicit moral prescriptions and characterological judgments, and effectively putting people on trial—and hence on the defensive.
