With ?the gleeful, viperish wit of Dorothy Parker? (Slate), Kipnis offers a fresh and provocative assessment of the female condition in the post-post-feminist world of the twenty-first century. For every advance towards sexual equality on the part of women in recent years, she argues, some new impediment just ?seems? to appear. Ironically, feminism has run up against an unanticipated opponent: the inner woman. The Female Thing brims with bracing, funny social observations informed by psychological acuity. For all the upbeat ?You go, girl? slogans, women remain caught between feminism and femininity, between self-affirmation and an endless quest for self-improvement, between playing the injured party and claiming independence. As audacious as it is historically and socially grounded, The Female Thing explores age-old quandaries: the war between the sexes, what women ?really? want, and to what extent anatomy is destiny after all.
Laura Kipnis Pořadí knih (chronologicky)
Laura Kipnis je autorkou, jejíž díla se zaměřují na složité mezilidské vztahy a společenské normy. Prostřednictvím pronikavých esejů zkoumá dynamiku moci, touhy a svobody v moderním světě. Její psaní je charakteristické nekompromisním a provokativním stylem, který vybízí čtenáře k zamyšlení nad vlastními postoji a přesvědčeními. Jako bývalá filmařka vnáší do své literární tvorby vizuální citlivost a analytickou hloubku, čímž vytváří díla, která jsou zároveň intelektuálně stimulující i literárně působivá.
Beschrijving van de vrouwelijke psyche aan de hand van een viertal primaire gebieden.
Against Love
- 224 stránek
- 8 hodin čtení
A polemic against love that is “engagingly acerbic ... extremely funny.... A deft indictment of the marital ideal, as well as a celebration of the dissent that constitutes adultery, delivered in pointed daggers of prose” ( The New Yorker).Who would dream of being against love? No one. Love is, as everyone knows, a mysterious and all-controlling force, with vast power over our thoughts and life decisions.But is there something a bit worrisome about all this uniformity of opinion? Is this the one subject about which no disagreement will be entertained, about which one truth alone is permissible? Consider that the most powerful organized religions produce the occasional heretic; every ideology has its apostates; even sacred cows find their butchers. Except for love.Hence the necessity for a polemic against it. A polemic is designed to be the prose equivalent of a small explosive device placed under your E-Z-Boy lounger. It won’t injure you (well not severely); it’s just supposed to shake things up and rattle a few convictions.