I am also constrained by the kind of lens I can bring to bear on the subject matter, as someone trained in moral and feminist philosophy, rather than psychology, sociology, gender studies, anthropology, or history, for instance.12 I’ll often be expressing my own views about whether certain controversial cases count as misogyny, according to my conception. But bear in mind that there’s often room for reasonable disagreements here, and you don’t have to agree with any particular verdict I reach for my primary goal to be met.

This book is hence intended as a bulwark against gaslighting in this arena: the siphoning off of heat and light from the problem of misogyny, in both private life and public discourse, and the concomitant denialism.