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Laura Kipnis

Autor/a de Against Love: A Polemic

8+ obres 1,205 Membres 45 Ressenyes 5 preferits

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Obres de Laura Kipnis

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The Best American Essays 2016 (2016) — Col·laborador — 133 exemplars
Dirty Looks: Women, Pornography, Power (1993) — Col·laborador — 49 exemplars

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Data de naixement
1956
Gènere
female
Nacionalitat
USA
Llocs de residència
Chicago, Illinois, USA
New York, New York, USA
Educació
San Francisco Art Institute (B.F.A.)
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (M.F.A.)
Professions
Professor of Media Studies (Northwestern University)
Premis i honors
Guggenheim Fellowship
Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship
Agent
Beth Vesel
Biografia breu
Laura Kipnis is a professor in the Department of Radio/TV/Film at Northwestern University, has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, and has contributed to Slate, Harper's, The Nation, and The New York Times Magazine. She lives in New York and Chicago. [adapted from How to Become a Scandal (2010)]

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Such clear vision! Laura Kipnis manages to look, open-eyed, at all the things women do to each other, as well as those things we allow to happen to us, in defining ourselves as a gender. Yet, this isn't a heavy read - it's fun and full of humour, both gentle and sharp. Kipnis is a well-known writer on so-called women's issues, and here she lays it on the line, asking why we take on the responsibility for housekeeping, why we wallow in envy and vulnerability instead of being strong, why we allow the depiction of our normally womanly functions as dirty.
Way back when I was breastfeeding my babies, one of my associates shuddered with horror at the thought. "That's disgusting," she said, "My breasts are for my husband." I wondered then, and still wonder now, how such wonderfully useful appendages became only appropriate for sexual satisfaction. It's easy to say it's because men wanted it that way, but, as Kipnis says, they've been aided and abetted by women.
I highly recommend this book for some true "aha!" moments and many wry laughs as you recognize yourself in the pages. It's something all women should read, and then leave around for the men in their life to read. The lessons are many, but the writing is so delightful you barely notice them going down...
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Dabble58 | Hi ha 3 ressenyes més | Nov 11, 2023 |
Five stars is probably too much for this; in truth it's at three and a half stars. But for me, this book had an impact that can't be denied: I discovered this book whilst taking a Marxist politics course in my first year of uni. I was distinctly unimpressed by the Marxist politics, but this book managed to perfectly state my uneasy feelings about the complacency so many of my friends and colleagues had toward the idea of love and marriage as an unshakable moral code.

Kipnis frankly states that she is not, really, against *love* (the title is muckraking more than anything else). Really, she's against the perception that marriage should be a lifelong bond that can never be broken; that affairs or feelings of infidelity are somehow immoral, unnatural and should be grounds for dismissing someone from public office; and other such ludicrous strains of "moral fibre" which permeate our society.

A couple of the chapters, which attempt to mix in Kipnis' own Marxist beliefs, go a bit too far. Not because of the Marxism, but because they dilute her central argument and - to be honest - feel like chapters from another book altogether. However, I heartily recommend this book even if you'll end up disagreeing with a lot of it! No one says you have to change your opinion because you read "Against Love"; but who wants to go through life not even having heard the other side of the debate?
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therebelprince | Hi ha 11 ressenyes més | Oct 24, 2023 |
Really enjoyed reading this book, Kipnis is a great writer, and I tend to agree with her on the topics in the book. I'm not 100% convinced she's telling (or even knows) the "whole story" about the events in the book. But I suspect she's basically on target.
 
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steve02476 | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Jan 3, 2023 |
Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss.
 
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fernandie | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Sep 15, 2022 |

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Ressenyes
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ISBN
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