Unwanted Advances

Feminism is broken: the current attempts to protect women from sexual abuse on campus, and on line. Regulation is replacing education, and women's hard-won right to be treated as consenting adults is being repealed by well-meaning bureaucrats.In Unwanted Advances, passionate feminist Kipnis, find the object of a protest march by student activists at her university for writing an essay about sexual paranoia on campus. In response she starts to question women's role in national debates over free speech and "safe spaces". She explores the astonishing netherworld of accused professors and students, campus witch hunts, rigged investigations, and demonstrates the chilling effect of this new sexual McCarthyism on higher education. Without minimizing the seriousness of campus assault, Kipnis argues for more honesty: a timely critique of feminist paternalism and the covert sexual conservatism of hook-up culture.

About the author

Laura Kipnis is a cultural critic and a professor at Northwestern University, where she teaches filmmaking. She's the author of six previous books, including Against Love: A Polemic and Men: Notes from an Ongoing Investigation. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and Yaddo, among others, and has written for Slate, Harper's Magazine, the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, and Bookforum. Her essay "Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe" was included in The Best American Essays 2016, edited by Jonathan Franzen. She lives in New York and Chicago.

Product details

• Authors: Laura Kipnis, Kipnis Laura
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9781788732574
• ISBN: 978-1-78873-257-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sexual Abuse & Harassment, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Sexual abuse & harassment, Feminism & feminist theory, United States of America, USA, Sexual abuse and harassment, Feminism and feminist theory, Higher education, tertiary education, Colleges of higher education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher