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Full Name	Laura Kipnis
Occupation	Essayist
Date Of Birth	Jul 19, 1956(1956-07-19)
Age	68
Birthplace	Chicago
Country	United States
Birth City	Illinois
Horoscope	Cancer

Laura Kipnis Biography

Laura Kipnis is one of the most popular and richest Essayist who was born on July 19, 1956 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. In her 2003 novel Against Love: A Polemic that is a “ragingly witty yet contemplative look at the discontents of domestic and erotic relationships, Kipnis combines portions of the slashing sexual contrarianism of Mailer, the scathing antidomestic wit of early Roseanne Barr and the coolly analytical aesthetics of early Sontag.”

Kipnis’s book from 2017 Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Is Coming to Campus, explores her experience in the Ludlow case and suggests that policies on sexual harassment don’t empower women, but instead hamper the fight for equality of gender. One of the students who filed complaints under the Title IX complaints against Ludlow started a lawsuit that named Kipnis along with her publishers, HarperCollins, alleging invasion of privacy and defamation. Kipnis has stated publicly “In case there’s any confusion, Unwanted Advances remains in print and I stand by everything in the book.” Unwanted Advances was named one of the Wall Street Journal’s 10 most influential non-fiction books of the year. Jennifer Senior wrote in the New York Times, “Few writers have tackled the excesses of the university experience with the same vigor as Kipnis is. Her anger lends her arguments the vigor of a live broadcast.”

Here’s a historical and political way of looking at the current moment. There have been, roughly speaking, two divergent tendencies in the struggle for women’s rights that come together in the issue of workplace harassment, which is why I think this all seems so significant. If you look at the history of feminism, going back to the 19th century, you’ve got, on the one hand, the struggle for what I’d call civic rights: the right to employment, the right to vote, to enter politics and public life. On the other side, there’s the struggle for women to have autonomy over our own bodies, meaning access to birth control, activism around rape, outlawing marital rape, and the fight for abortion rights. What we’re seeing now is the incomplete successes in both of these areas converging. We’ve never entirely attained civic equality. We’ve never entirely attained autonomy over our bodies. Which is why the right not to be sexually harassed in the workplace is the next important frontier in equality for women.

In addition, she has spoken on campuses across the country, she has also addressed gender issues and freedom of speech, #MeToo sexual politics on campus and gender equality in 2017, Kipnis was a participant in an New York Times Magazine roundtable about “Work, Fairness, Sex and Ambition” alongside Anita Hill and Soledad O’Brien. Kipnis said:

Laura Kipnis Net Worth

Laura Kipnis is one of the richest Essayist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Laura Kipnis 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In 2010, she published How to Become a Scandal: Adventures in Bad Behavior and focused on scandals such as those of Eliot Spitzer, Linda Tripp, James Frey, Sol Wachtler as well as Lisa Nowak; the book focused on “the elaborate ways those transgressors reassure themselves that they are not bringing colossal ruin upon themselves, that their dalliances will never see the light of day”. “What allows for scandal in Kipnis’s schema is every individual’s blind spot, “a little existential joke on humankind (or in some cases, a ticking time bomb) nestled at the core of every lonely consciousness…Ostensibly about scandal, her book is most memorable as a convincing case for the ultimate unknowability of the self”.

In March of 2015, following the news that Northwestern University professor Peter Ludlow was charged with sexual harassment Kipnis published an article in Chronicle of Higher Education in which she criticized “sexual paranoia” on campuses and addressed the sexual relations between professors and students and warnings about sexual harassment. It was featured as part of The Best American Essays of 2016 written by Jonathan Franzen.

Kipnis wrote, in a New York Times opinion piece “The Perils of Publishing in a

MeToo Moment” protesting the journal’s firing of editor Ian Buruma: “One

consequence of Mr. Buruma’s departure will be a new layer of safeguards we won’t even know are in place, including safeguards from the sort of intellectual risks The New York Review of Books always stood for.”

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Laura Ranked on the list of most popular Essayist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Laura Kipnis celebrates birthday on July 19 of every year.