Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

by Kate Manne

There is also a question about whether stereotypes, even about specific groups of women, provide the best explanation of the phenomenon of testimonial injustice (or, perhaps better, testimonial injustices). After all, for many women, their testimony is considerably less likely to be dismissed in closely related medical settings: when they are testifying as to the health of children in their care, for example. Women are indeed often regarded as supremely competent, trustworthy caregivers for their charges, until proven otherwise (in which case the punishment for failures of “good womanhood” may be harsh, swift, and disproportionate).

Good womanhood