Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to CampusFeminism is broken: the current attempts to protect women from sexual abuse on campus, and on line. Regulation is replacing education, and women's hard-won right to be treated as consenting adults is being repealed by well-meaning bureaucrats. In Unwanted Advances, passionate feminist Kipnis, find the object of a protest march by student activists at her university for writing an essay about sexual paranoia on campus. In response she starts to question women's role in national debates over free speech and "safe spaces". She explores the astonishing netherworld of accused professors and students, campus witch hunts, rigged investigations, and demonstrates the chilling effect of this new sexual McCarthyism on higher education. Without minimizing the seriousness of campus assault, Kipnis argues for more honesty: a timely critique of feminist paternalism and the covert sexual conservatism of hook-up culture. |
Contents
Fantasies and Realities | |
A Yes Becomes a No Years After | |
The Safer the Space the More Dangerous | |
Reports from Secret Campus Tribunals Across | |
A Plea for GrownUp Feminism | |
Eyewitness to a Witch Trial | |
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