Unwanted advances : sexual paranoia comes to campus
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Published
[New York] : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm.
Status
Main Level - Nonfiction
371.782 KIPNIS
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371.782 KIPNIS
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Published
[New York] : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-245).
Description
"From a highly regarded feminist, cultural critic, and professor comes a polemic arguing that the stifling sense of sexual danger sweeping American campuses doesn't empower women, it impedes the fight for gender equality. Feminism is broken, argues Laura Kipnis, if anyone thinks the sexual hysteria overtaking American campuses is a sign of gender progress. A committed feminist, Kipnis was surprised to find herself the object of a protest march by student activists at her university for writing an essay about sexual paranoia on campus. Next she was brought up on Title IX complaints for creating a "hostile environment." Defying confidentiality strictures, she wrote a whistleblowing essay about the ensuing seventy-two-day investigation, which propelled her to the center of national debates over free speech, "safe spaces," and the vast federal overreach of Title IX. In the process she uncovered an astonishing netherworld of accused professors and students, campus witch hunts, rigged investigations, and Title IX officers run amuck. Drawing on interviews and internal documents, Unwanted Advances demonstrates the chilling effect of this new sexual McCarthyism on intellectual freedom. Without minimizing the seriousness of campus assault, Kipnis argues for more honesty about the sexual realities and ambivalences hidden behind the notion of "rape culture." Instead, regulation is replacing education, and women's hard-won right to be treated as consenting adults is being repealed by well-meaning bureaucrats. Unwanted Advances is a risk-taking, often darkly funny interrogation of feminist paternalism, the covert sexual conservatism of hook-up culture, and the institutionalized backlash of holding men alone responsible for mutually drunken sex. It's not just compulsively readable, it will change the national conversation." -- Publisher's description
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Kipnis, L. (2017). Unwanted advances: sexual paranoia comes to campus (First edition.). Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kipnis, Laura. 2017. Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus. Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kipnis, Laura. Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2017.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Kipnis, Laura. Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus First edition., Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2017.
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