The Resource Unwanted advances : sexual paranoia comes to campus, Laura Kipnis
Unwanted advances : sexual paranoia comes to campus, Laura Kipnis
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- Summary
- "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 Instead, regulation is replacing education, and women's hard-won right to be treated as consenting adults is being repealed by well-meaning bureaucrats.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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 245 pages
- Note
- "'If this is feminism, it's feminism hijacked by melodrama.'"--from jacket cover
- Contents
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- Sexual paranoia on campus
- The accusation factory : fantasies and realities
- Flip-flopping on consent : a "yes" becomes a "no" years after the fact
- My Title IX inquisition : the "safer" the space, the more dangerous for professors
- F*** confidentiality : reports from secret campus tribunals across America
- Sexual miseducation : a plea for grown-up feminism
- Coda: Eyewitness to a witch trial
- Isbn
- 9780062657862
- Label
- Unwanted advances : sexual paranoia comes to campus
- Title
- Unwanted advances
- Title remainder
- sexual paranoia comes to campus
- Statement of responsibility
- Laura Kipnis
- Subject
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- Rape in universities and colleges
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
- Sexual harassment in universities and colleges
- EDUCATION / Higher
- Women -- Social conditions
- Women -- Social conditions
- Women's rights
- Women's rights
- Sexual harassment in universities and colleges
- Rape in universities and colleges
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kipnis, Laura
- Dewey number
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- 378.19782
- 371.786
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- LB2345.3.R37
- LC item number
- K57 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Rape in universities and colleges
- Sexual harassment in universities and colleges
- Women
- Women's rights
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
- EDUCATION / Higher
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
- Rape in universities and colleges
- Sexual harassment in universities and colleges
- Women
- Women's rights
- Label
- Unwanted advances : sexual paranoia comes to campus, Laura Kipnis
- Note
- "'If this is feminism, it's feminism hijacked by melodrama.'"--from jacket cover
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-245)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Sexual paranoia on campus -- The accusation factory : fantasies and realities -- Flip-flopping on consent : a "yes" becomes a "no" years after the fact -- My Title IX inquisition : the "safer" the space, the more dangerous for professors -- F*** confidentiality : reports from secret campus tribunals across America -- Sexual miseducation : a plea for grown-up feminism -- Coda: Eyewitness to a witch trial
- Control code
- ocn958781739
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 245 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062657862
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780062657862
- (OCoLC)958781739
- Label
- Unwanted advances : sexual paranoia comes to campus, Laura Kipnis
- Note
- "'If this is feminism, it's feminism hijacked by melodrama.'"--from jacket cover
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-245)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Sexual paranoia on campus -- The accusation factory : fantasies and realities -- Flip-flopping on consent : a "yes" becomes a "no" years after the fact -- My Title IX inquisition : the "safer" the space, the more dangerous for professors -- F*** confidentiality : reports from secret campus tribunals across America -- Sexual miseducation : a plea for grown-up feminism -- Coda: Eyewitness to a witch trial
- Control code
- ocn958781739
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 245 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062657862
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780062657862
- (OCoLC)958781739
Subject
- Rape in universities and colleges
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
- Sexual harassment in universities and colleges
- EDUCATION / Higher
- Women -- Social conditions
- Women -- Social conditions
- Women's rights
- Women's rights
- Sexual harassment in universities and colleges
- Rape in universities and colleges
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