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Laura Kipnis

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American cultural critic, essayist, and video artist

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Laura Kipnis
Literature
#5713
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#8737
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#2617
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Literary Criticism
#202
World Rank
#302
Historical Rank
#86
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Writing
#1851
World Rank
#2389
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#1208
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According to Wikipedia, Laura Kipnis is an American cultural critic and essayist. 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 and free speech policies in higher education.

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Laura Kipnis's Published Works

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Published Works

  • Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America (1996) (236)
  • Against Love: A Polemic (2003) (110)
  • Adultery (1998) (65)
  • (Male) Desire and (Female) Disgust: Reading Hustler (1992) (65)
  • Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus (2017) (40)
  • Ecstasy Unlimited: On Sex, Capital, Gender, and Aesthetics (1993) (35)
  • Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe (2015) (25)
  • Feminism: The Political Conscience of Postmodernism? (1989) (24)
  • The Female Thing: Dirt, Sex, Envy, Vulnerability (2006) (22)
  • White Trash Girl: The Interview (1997) (15)
  • Something's Missing (2006) (15)
  • My Title IX Inquisition (2015) (12)
  • Condi's Inner Life: What Freudian Slips Do or Don't Tell Us About Politicians (2004) (8)
  • She-Male Fantasies and the Aesthetics of Pornography (1993) (6)
  • How to Look at Pornography (2014) (6)
  • The Phantom Twitchings of an Amputated Limb: Sexual Spectacle in the Post-Colonial Epic (1989) (5)
  • World energy policy (1977) (4)
  • Aesthetics and Foreign Policy (1986) (3)
  • Desire and Disgust: Hustler Magazine (2006) (3)
  • The Stepdaughter's Story: Scandals National and Transnational (1999) (2)
  • Lust and Disgust: A short history of prudery, feminist and otherwise (2007) (2)
  • The State of the Unions; Should This Marriage Be Saved? (2004) (2)
  • Ladies First: The Utopian Fantasy of Deep Throat (2005) (2)
  • 'Refunctioning' Reconsidered: Toward a Left Popular Culture (1986) (2)
  • Fat and Culture (1998) (2)
  • Film in 'Crisis': The Anxiety of Changing Technologies (1998) (1)
  • Repossessing Popular Culture (2004) (1)
  • Death by Self-Parody (2012) (1)
  • Response to "The Traffic in Women" (2006) (1)
  • Marx: The Video (1990) (1)
  • Leaking All over the Page (2011) (1)
  • Linda Tripp: The Face That Launched a Thousand Jokes (2001) (1)
  • It's a Wonderful Life: Hustler Publisher Larry Flynt's Long, Strange Journey from Hillbilly Entrepreneur to First Amendment Hero (1996) (1)
  • The Cringe Factor (2008) (1)
  • The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture (review) (1984) (1)
  • Your Money or Your Life (1982) (1)
  • Feminism’s Altar Ego (1990) (0)
  • Why Americans Hate Democrats (2004) (0)
  • Me, Myself, and Id (2014) (0)
  • The Eloquence of Pornography (2002) (0)
  • Medusa for President (2008) (0)
  • Personae of Interest (2014) (0)
  • The Aesthetics of Careerism (1981) (0)
  • Clothes Make the Man (2014) (0)
  • Where Are All the Female Sex Scandals (2011) (0)
  • Pinko in Pearls (2004) (0)
  • Excerpt from Against Love (2011) (0)
  • Words at Play (2011) (0)
  • The sister problem (2009) (0)
  • Scandalize, Grovel, Repent: Washington Post (2010) (0)
  • The Deep, Dark, Ugly Thing (2015) (0)
  • Will Love Endure (2006) (0)
  • The Anxiety of (Sexual) Influence (2004) (0)
  • How to Become a Scandal (2010) (0)
  • Fantasy in America: The United States v. Daniel Thomas DePew (2014) (0)
  • The Clintons' marriage remains a Rorschach test for sexual anxiety (2016) (0)
  • Crazy in Love (2013) (0)
  • It's a Wonderful Life: Larry Flynt's Long Strange Journey: Village Voice (1996) (0)
  • Style: An Interview with Laura Kipnis (2011) (0)
  • Marx: The Video: Media Arts (1990) (0)
  • Ecstasy Unlimited: The Interpenetrations of Sex and Capital, 60 minutes, color, all video formats. Rent, $90; sale, $350. Cinema Guild, 1697 Broadway, New York, NY 10019. (1987) (0)
  • Why Ferguson Is Also About Gender, Not Just Race (2014) (0)
  • Domestic Gulags: Harper's (2003) (0)
  • Electric v. petrol (1992) (0)
  • An Incomplete Exchange (2007) (0)
  • Why Men Hate Hilary: Playboy (2008) (0)
  • A Man's Woman (1988) (0)
  • Reconsidering 'The Traffic in Women' (2006) (0)
  • Scandalize, Grovel, Repent. Get a TV show. (2010) (0)
  • One Born Every Minute: David Mamet's House of Games: Jump Cut (1991) (0)
  • Marx: The Video (A Politics of Revolting Bodies) (1990) (0)
  • Narcissism: A Reflection (2017) (0)
  • Review of The Anti-Aesthetic: Essay on Postmodern Culture: Minnesota Review (1984) (0)
  • Execs Like Emil Michael Don’t Hate Women—They’re Terrified of Them (2014) (0)
  • Swedish translation from Bound and Gagged (1999) (0)
  • Should This Marriage Be Saved?: New York Times (2004) (0)
  • Classification of hazardous areas (1987) (0)
  • Cheatin' Hearts, Single Hearts (2004) (0)
  • America's Waistline: The Politics of Fat (2005) (0)
  • Meet Playboy, Sr. (2003) (0)
  • The domestic gulag (2003) (0)
  • The Tyranny of Two (2001) (0)
  • Head to Head With Modern Manhood (1999) (0)
  • Book Club on The Female Thing (2006) (0)
  • Why Did Weiner Do It (2011) (0)
  • Love or Money: The matrimonial mystique (2005) (0)
  • School for Scandal (2009) (0)
  • Disgust and Desire: Hustler Magazine (2014) (0)
  • I Mean It (2012) (0)
  • Marriage is Made in Hell (2003) (0)
  • Dirty Pictures (Screenplay) (0)
  • Peck the Knife: A Case Study in Critical Aggression (2004) (0)
  • Resentments of Things Past (2015) (0)
  • Thrall of Mirrors (2016) (0)
  • Why Is Contemporary Art Addicted to Violence (2011) (0)
  • State of the Union (2004) (0)
  • Why Men Hate Hillary (2008) (0)
  • House of Games: One Born Every Minute (1991) (0)
  • Marry by 30 (2015) (0)
  • Book Club: Slate (2005) (0)
  • Life in the Fat Lane (2014) (0)
  • Navel Gazing: Why Even Feminists are Obsessed With Fat (2005) (0)
  • Men: Notes from an Ongoing Investigation (2014) (0)
  • Public Intellectuals Do It With Style (1999) (0)
  • Review of Screening Sex by Linda Williams: Bookforum (2009) (0)
  • Against Love: A Treatise on the Tyranny of Two (2013) (0)

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