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 Instead, regulation is replacing education, and women's hard-won right to be treated as consenting adults is being repealed by well-meaning bureaucrats.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.
Laura Kipnis is a cultural critic, essayist, and former video artist, whose work focuses on sexual politics, emotion, acting out, bad behavior, and various other crevices of the American psyche. Her upcoming book is UNWANTED ADVANCES: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus. Her essays and reviews have appeared in Slate, Harper's, The Nation, Bookforum, Playboy, and The New York Times. Kipnis has received a Guggenheim fellowship, a Rockefeller fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts grants, and Yaddo fellowships. She's also a professor at Northwestern, where she teaches film making. Her essay “Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe” was included in The Best American Essays 2016, edited by Jonathan Franzen. She lives in Chicago and New York.
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这本书的文字风格简直是一股清流,与当下流行的快餐式叙事完全背道而驰。作者的用词考究,句子结构复杂却又不失流畅,读起来有一种在品尝陈年佳酿的感觉,需要慢下来,细细咂摸每一段的韵味。我注意到,作者非常钟爱使用长句,但这些长句并非冗余的堆砌,而是如同精密的钟表零件,每一个从句都承载着重要的信息或情感铺垫。在描述人物心理活动时,作者更是展现出了惊人的洞察力,那些微妙的犹豫、瞬间的自我欺骗,都被捕捉得淋漓尽致。我感觉自己不是在读一个虚构的故事,而是在翻阅一本记录真实人性的观察日志。有那么几处情节,我甚至需要停下来,合上书本,在原地站立片刻,消化一下作者所营造出的那种强烈的代入感。它不像有些小说那样提供简单的娱乐,它更像是一面镜子,照出了我们日常生活中可能忽略掉的复杂性。如果你是那种追求文字美感和深层思考的读者,这本书绝对不容错过。
评分我阅读这部作品的体验是渐进式的,起初还以为这会是一个线性的、关于某个特定事件的记录,但随着阅读的深入,我发现自己陷入了一个由多重时间线和不同叙事视角交织而成的迷宫。这种结构上的复杂性非但没有造成阅读障碍,反而极大地增强了故事的张力。作者高明之处在于,他能够让这些看似分散的线索,在关键的节点上精准地汇合,每一次汇合都带来了信息量的爆炸和情感的冲击。我尤其欣赏作者在处理“记忆”与“现实”界限时的手法。哪些是真实发生的?哪些是主角基于创伤重构的?书中的叙述者本人似乎也在进行一场自我辨认的过程,这让整个文本充满了哲学思辨的意味。读到最后,我甚至开始怀疑之前所相信的一切,这种颠覆性的阅读感受,在近几年的阅读经历中是相当罕见的。它要求读者不仅要跟上情节,更要持续审视叙事本身的可信度。
评分这本书的封面设计相当引人注目,那种略带复古的字体搭配上深沉的背景色,一下子就抓住了我的眼球。拿到手上的时候,纸张的质感也出乎意料的好,拿在手里沉甸甸的,让人感觉这是一部经过精心打磨的作品。我其实是对这类题材不太抱有太高期待的,毕竟市面上同类型的作品太多了,很容易落入俗套。但读了几页之后,我发现作者的叙事节奏把握得非常到位,开头并不急于抛出核心冲突,而是花了大量的篇幅来描绘主角所处的那个特定社会环境的氛围。那种压抑、那种暗流涌动的感觉,被作者用细腻到近乎残酷的笔触一一展现出来。我尤其欣赏作者在刻画人物内心挣扎时的那种克制与爆发的平衡感。你会明显感觉到,很多时候,人物的真实想法和他们不得不表现出来的样子之间存在着巨大的鸿沟,而作者就巧妙地利用这种张力,让读者自己去挖掘隐藏在字里行间的深意。读到中段时,情节开始加速,一些看似无关紧要的细节突然串联起来,形成了一个精巧的网,让人不禁拍案叫绝。那种“原来如此”的顿悟感,是阅读体验中最为美妙的时刻之一。总的来说,这是一部在美学和结构上都展现出高水准的作品,值得细细品味。
评分读完这本书,我脑子里久久不能散去的是那种挥之不去的压抑感,它不是那种直接的、让你喘不过气的恐怖,而更像是一种弥漫在空气中,渗透到骨子里的无力感。作者对环境的描绘简直是教科书级别的,那些关于特定历史时期或特定阶层生活的细节描写,精准得让人起鸡皮疙瘩。我能想象出那些灰蒙蒙的街道,人们小心翼翼的眼神,以及那些永远无法言说的潜规则。很多情节的处理都极其巧妙,没有使用任何煽情的对白或夸张的动作,冲突往往在人物一个细微的表情变化中就爆发了,留给读者的解读空间非常大。我个人非常喜欢这种“留白”的叙事方式,它迫使读者必须积极地参与到故事的构建中来,而不是被动地接受信息。特别是书中关于“权力结构”的部分,作者似乎不动声色地解剖了那些无形的枷锁是如何将个体困住的,探讨的深度远远超出了我最初的预想。唯一让我稍微感到遗憾的是,某些配角的动机似乎还可以再深入挖掘一下,虽然他们的存在感已经很强了,但若能再添墨加彩,想必整个故事的维度会更加立体丰富。
评分这本书带给我最大的震撼是其对“沉默的重量”的描绘。它不是那种充满爆炸性冲突的小说,相反,很多重大的转折和决定性的时刻,都是在几乎没有对话的情况下完成的。作者通过对环境声响的捕捉、对肢体语言的细致入微的刻画,将那种“不可言说”的巨大压力展现得淋漓尽致。比如,书中有一段描写主角在某个社交场合下的僵硬坐姿,仅仅是这个动作,就足以传递出她内心深处的恐惧与抗拒,那种比任何呐喊都更具穿透力的无声控诉,让我久久不能平静。它深刻地探讨了在特定的文化语境下,个体如何被期望“保持体面”而牺牲掉真实自我的主题。读罢全书,我感觉自己对人际交往中的非语言信号有了全新的理解。它迫使我反思,我们在日常交流中到底错过了多少关键的信息,只是因为我们没有学会倾听那些没有说出口的部分。这是一次极其有价值的心灵扫描,值得每一个注重人际心理学的朋友们深入研读。
评分3.5 I don't know Laura Kipnis in person but I can totally imagine her WTF face she had when writing this book.
评分到最后作者讲出了一点有意思的事,但大部分都很情绪化,与我的预期较远,我以为会是很硬核的社科类大调查和数据分析和海量案件援引。她的很多论调都在受害者有罪论和slut shaming的边缘,尽管她一直在此地无银般强调自己是女权主义者。
评分3.5 I don't know Laura Kipnis in person but I can totally imagine her WTF face she had when writing this book.
评分到最后作者讲出了一点有意思的事,但大部分都很情绪化,与我的预期较远,我以为会是很硬核的社科类大调查和数据分析和海量案件援引。她的很多论调都在受害者有罪论和slut shaming的边缘,尽管她一直在此地无银般强调自己是女权主义者。
评分3.5 I don't know Laura Kipnis in person but I can totally imagine her WTF face she had when writing this book.
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