Laura Kipnis
Autor/a de Against Love: A Polemic
Sobre l'autor
Crèdit de la imatge: Photo by Marion Ettlinger
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Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- 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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- Obres
- 8
- També de
- 2
- Membres
- 1,205
- Popularitat
- #21,315
- Valoració
- 3.6
- Ressenyes
- 45
- ISBN
- 41
- Llengües
- 7
- Preferit
- 5
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...… (més)