Unwanted Advances

Above all else, though, Unwanted Advances is necessary. Argue with the author, by all means. But few people have taken on the excesses of university culture with the brio that Kipnis has. Her anger gives her argument the energy of a live cable. -- Jennifer Senior * New York Times * A bracing book, its message delivered with fierce intelligence and mordant humor -- Cathy Young * Wall Street Journal * a persuasive and valuable contribution to the continuing debate over how to deal with sexual assault on college campuses -- Jill Filipovic * New York Times * this book is harrowing; this book is hilarious (like Dorothy Parker channeling Franz Kafka); but the main thing it is is BRAVE. On top of which, it is urgently necessary. -- Lawrence Weschler, author of Waves Passing in the Night A revelation: a great work of investigative journalism and a thorough examination of a case that feels like it couldn't happen in America... Kipnis makes you fear for a whole new set of reasons. -- Hanna Rosin, author of The End of Men C]hilling, shocking, meticulously reported, eminently readable, and in places perversely hilarious...most of all it is a crucial piece of a burgeoning conversation about threats to free speech and intellectual freedom on college campuses...Kipnis's voice is as clarion as her insights are astute. -- Meghan Daum, author of The Unspeakable Kipnis is everything the academic bureaucrats she writes about are not: brave, honest, judicious, mature, and self-aware, with a seasoned understanding of both sexual politics and campus politics. She has struck a mighty blow for sanity, equality, and academic freedom. -- William Deresiewicz, author of Excellent Sheep a brave, disturbing, yet scrupulously fair book: a brilliant and pragmatic manifesto for a kind of 'adult' feminism that rejects the campus cult of female victimhood. -- Terry Castle, author of The Professor