This book begins by canvassing a common, dictionary-definition-style understanding of the notion of misogyny. On this “naïve conception,” as I call it, misogyny is primarily a property of individual misogynists who are prone to hate women qua women, that is, because of their gender, either universally or at least very generally. On this view, agents may also be required to harbor this hatred in their hearts as a matter of “deep” or ultimate psychological explanation if they are to count as bona fide misogynists. Misogyny is as misogynists are, then. And misogynists are agents who fit a certain
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