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Against Love: A Polemic by Laura Kipnis
Category: Philosophy
Who would dream of being against love? No one. Love is, as everyone knows, a mysterious and all-controlling force, with vast power over our thoughts and life decisions. But is there something a bit worrisome about all this uniformity of opinion? Is this the one subject about which no disagreement will b ...Show more
How to Cause a Scandal: Adventures in Bad Behaviour by Laura Kipnis
Category: Biography
We all relish a good scandal - the larger the figure (governor, judge) and more shocking the particulars (diapers, cigars) - the better. But why do people feel compelled to act out their tangled psychodramas on the national stage, and why do we so enjoy watching them, hurling our condemnations while sav ...Show more
Love in the Time of Contagion: A Diagnosis by Laura Kipnis
Category: Personal Development
In this timely, insightful, and darkly funny investigation, the acclaimed author of Against Love asks- what does living in dystopic times do to our ability to love each other and the world?COVID-19 has produced new taxonomies of love, intimacy, and vulnerability. Will its cultural afterlife be as lastin ...Show more
The Female Thing : Dirt, sex, envy, vulnerability by Laura Kipnis
Category: Social Issue
This is a witty and provocative exploration of the female condition in the twenty-first century.With 'the gleeful, viperish with of Dorothy Parker' (Slate), Kipnis offers a fresh and provocative look at the female condition in the post-post-feminist world of the twenty-first century. For every advance t ...Show more
UNWANTED ADVANCES SEXUAL PARANOIA COMES TO CAMPUS by KIPNIS LAURA
Category: Cultural Studies
From a highly regarded feminist cultural critic and professor comes a polemic arguing that the stifling sense of sexual danger sweeping American campuses doesn't empower women, it impedes the fight for gender equality.Feminism is broken, argues Laura Kipnis, if anyone thinks the sexual hysteria overtaki ...Show more
Unwanted Advances by Laura Kipnis
Category: History
Feminism is broken, argues Laura Kipnis, if anyone thinks the sexual hysteria overtaking American campuses is a sign of gender progress. A committed feminist, Kipnis was surprised to find herself the object of a protest march by student activists at her university for writing an essay about sexual paran ...Show more
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