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Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus Hardcover – April 4, 2017

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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. Anyone who thinks the sexual hysteria overtaking American campuses is a sign of gender progress is deranged.

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 amok. Then a trove of revealing documents fell into her lap, plunging her behind the scenes in an especially controversial case. Drawing on investigative reporting, cultural analysis, and her own experiences, Unwanted Advances demonstrates the chilling effect of this new sexual McCarthyism on higher education. 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 Instead, regulation is replacing education, and women's hard-won right to be treated as consenting adults is being repealed by well-meaning bureaucrats.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.

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"How come reading [Kipnis], however uncomfortable or complex the subject, is always such a tremendous pleasure?" (Geoff Dyer, author of White Sands)

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Feminism is broken, argues Laura Kipnis. Anyone who thinks the sexual hysteria overtaking American campuses is a sign of gender progress is deranged.

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 whistle-blowing 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 amok. Then a trove of revealing documents fell into her lap, plunging her behind the scenes in an especially controversial case. Drawing on investigative reporting, cultural analysis, and her own experiences, Kipnis demonstrates the chilling effect of this new sexual McCarthyism on intellectual freedom. Without minimizing the seriousness of campus assault, she 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 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 hookup 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.

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Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: Harper (April 4, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0062657860
ISBN-13: 978-0062657862
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.9 x 8.2 inches
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Laura Kipnis Strikes a Dagger Into the Heart of Title IX

October 13, 2017

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This book is stunning. Laura Kipnis manages to be funny and entertaining while writing about on an important and timely subject, that being the far reach and abuses of Title IX. Ms. Kipnis, a professor at Northwestern University, faced several Title IX hearings, the first simply for writing an article about the excesses of Title IX. And when she wrote about her Title IX experience she was once again charged under Title IX. Finally, when she wrote this book, once again did she face a Title IX hearing, not only for the book but also for various Facebook posts about the book. Read this, especially if you have any children in college. It is an important book written by a feminist scholar about how feminsim has gone from being about empowering women to treating women like infants and all men as predators.

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Exposes the Stalinist tactics employed by Title IX Administrators

June 24, 2018

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I am glad to have read Kipnis' book. It makes clear the wild excesses of the Obama Administration's implementation of Title IX policy. And while I found Kipnis' personal candor to be unexpected, it did make for some lighthearted chuckling as I read the book in bed, always prompting comments from my wife, "what's so funny in THAT book?"

I hoped that somewhere in the book, perhaps an appendix, Kipnis could have provided summaries of the dozens or hundreds of other victims she had heard from. It really would have driven the point home.

The saddest part of this whole matter is that she never would have written this book had she herself not been a victim of the "left eating its own." The Stalinist measures being employed by universities should have been on full display and exposed by both the media and civil rights groups. Perhaps that's more a statement of how debased and biased our media has become.

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February 25, 2018

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If you are wondering what all the fuss about title nine is, read this book. Title nine is no longer about equality for women in sports. It has become a tool for extremists. The author provides a very informative view .

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December 2, 2017

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It's about time that an academic had the courage to come forward with the truth of a bureaucracy concerned more with self perpetuation than protecting students. The idea that a professor can be prosecuted by a secret tribunal of one: detective, prosecutor, judge and jury for writing an peer-reviewed academic article is terrifying. More so that that article in question offended only in that it dared to expose the abuses of the Title IX machinery.

No one questions that we need to protect young women (and men) from sexual predators, but Title IX has been turned into an all purpose tool for political vendettas and shutting down legitimate discourse. You've heard of "safe spaces" and this is at its core. Students (and faculty) in higher education only allow to be said that which they are willing to hear. Transgression is punished by months of secret investigation and ruinous legal bills. Gag orders prevent the accused from speaking to anyone with harsh punishments promised to those who break the silence.

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Interesting reading ...

October 3, 2017

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Interesting reading. All systems have an inherent exploitability, but this expansion of Title IX seems both extreme overreach and loaded with unintended consequences.

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The primary point is worthwhile, but the book is ...

January 11, 2018

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The primary point is worthwhile, but the book is too long. Much of the details could be omitted or at least summarized.

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Michael Bailey

Funny, angry, wise, beautifully written

April 9, 2017

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Although I agree with most of the reviews here, it is important to acknowledge that Kipnis knows that sexual assault happens, but can be less of a problem if we stop pretending that repeating "Men should not rape" is a good intervention. Nor is making every campus sexual encounter a potential rape accusation.

I teach at Northwestern, and thought the Ludlow accusations were fishy from the start. But Kipnis had access to amazing sources–everything–and from what she has revealed, I think these accusations were less fishy than rotten. He should not have lost his job. I hope it is some (albeit surely insufficient) compensation that his case spawned this amazing book.

Buy it. Read it. Spread it.

If the Daily Northwestern does not write about this, and soon, we will know that there is no free press on our campus.

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Peter Serkin

This is the most relevant and well thought out excellent book! Written free of the prevalent herd mentality

January 30, 2018

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This is the most relevant and well thought out excellent book! Written free of the prevalent herd mentality, and instead questioning an overreaction and overreaching of all men in all instances being guilty of whatever they happen to be accused of. And antidote to the accuser is always right, and the accused is always a guilty perpetrator. An original piint of view that provides a jolt which seems badly needed at this time. Well done, Laura Kipnis!

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G. Winkler

Five Stars

Must read for feminists of the new era.

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Lara-Ashley

A sad case of a failed professor attempting to write.

One of the most disgusting and poorly written works I have come across. The author's bias colors every word written creating a cacophony of clutter.Read more

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I'm so glad I did

I live in Canada, and left university long ago, but happened to come across this book after listening to an interview with Laura Kipnis. I'm so glad I did.Read more

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Attention-seeking and vacuous

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Sleeping with your professors is groovy, man.

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