Laura Kipnis
Author of Against Love: A Polemic
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- Birthdate
- 1956
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
New York, New York, USA - Education
- San Francisco Art Institute (B.F.A.)
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (M.F.A.) - Occupations
- Professor of Media Studies (Northwestern University)
- Awards and honors
- Guggenheim Fellowship
Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship - Agent
- Beth Vesel
- Short biography
- Laura Kipnis is a professor in the Department of Radio/TV/Film at Northwestern University, has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, and has contributed to Slate, Harper's, The Nation, and The New York Times Magazine. She lives in New York and Chicago. [adapted from How to Become a Scandal (2010)]
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- Rating
- 3.6
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Kipnis frankly states that she is not, really, against *love* (the title is muckraking more than anything else). Really, she's against the perception that marriage should be a lifelong bond that can never be broken; that affairs or feelings of infidelity are somehow immoral, unnatural and should be grounds for dismissing someone from public office; and other such ludicrous strains of "moral fibre" which permeate our society.
A couple of the chapters, which attempt to mix in Kipnis' own Marxist beliefs, go a bit too far. Not because of the Marxism, but because they dilute her central argument and - to be honest - feel like chapters from another book altogether. However, I heartily recommend this book even if you'll end up disagreeing with a lot of it! No one says you have to change your opinion because you read "Against Love"; but who wants to go through life not even having heard the other side of the debate?… (more)