Laura Kipnis, Author . Pantheon $24 (224p) ISBN 978-0-375-42189-1
In this ragingly witty yet contemplative look at the discontents of domestic and erotic relationships, Kipnis (Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America) combines portions of the slashing sexual contrarianism of Mailer,...
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Laura Kipnis, Author . Pantheon $23.95 (173p) ISBN 978-0-375-42417-5
Three years after her controversial proadultery polemic, Against Love
, Kipnis, a professor of media studies at Northwestern University, offers a wide-ranging and equally unorthodox investigation of "the female condition." She examines why...
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Laura Kipnis, Holt, $24 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8979-0
Two very public downfalls and two very public uproars guide us through the contemporary infernal regions of scandal: the downfall of “the lovelorn astronaut,” Lisa Nowak, and “an unreasonable judge,” Sol Wachter, and the uproar set off by Linda...
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Laura Kipnis, Author Grove Press $22 (226p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1584-3
Kipnis (Ecstasy Unlimited) argues in five loosely connected essays that just about everyone-from the religious right to militant feminists-misunderstands and misjudges pornography, which she considers a form of fantasy that is an end in itself and...
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Laura Kipnis. Metropolitan, $25 (224p) ISBN 978-1-62779-187-8
Kipnis’s gifts are on full display in this irresistible collection of essays, in which she weaves together complex and penetrating insights about gender into provocative treatises. Though the book is putatively about men, Northwestern University...
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Laura Kipnis. Harper, $26.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-265786-2
In this courageous, thought-provoking polemic, Kipnis (Men: Notes from an Ongoing Investigation), a feminist cultural critic and professor at Northwestern University, targets the overzealousness of Title IX investigations on college campuses and...
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Laura Kipnis. Pantheon, $25 (224p) ISBN 978-0-593-31628-3
Cultural critic Kipnis (Unwanted Advances) takes a wry and thought-provoking look at modern trends in sex and relationships. In essays that wander far afield without losing sight of their central topic, the author interweaves autobiography, cultural
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