Laura Kipnis
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"Pornography is the royal road to the cultural psyche." --Bound And Gagged (1996) Laura Kipnis |
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Laura Kipnis (born 1956) is an American cultural critic and essayist. A feminist intellectual, her work focuses on sexual politics, gender issues, aesthetics, popular culture, and pornography. She began her career as a video artist, exploring similar themes in the form of video essays. She is professor of media studies at Northwestern University in the Department of Radio-TV-Film, where she teaches filmmaking. In recent years she has become known for debating sexual harassment policies.
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Books
- Ecstasy Unlimited: On Sex, Capital, Gender, and Aesthetics (Minneapolis, Minn.: University Of Minnesota Press, 1993)
- Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America (New York: Grove Press, 1996)
- Against Love: A Polemic (New York: Pantheon Books, 2003)
- The Female Thing: Dirt, Sex, Envy, Vulnerability (New York: Pantheon Books, 2006)
- How To Become a Scandal: Adventures in Bad Behavior (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2010)
- Men: Notes from an Ongoing Investigation (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2014)
- Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus (New York: HarperCollins, April 2017)
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