Author : Laura Kipnis
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1627791884
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (277 download)
Book Synopsis Men by : Laura Kipnis
Download or read book Men written by Laura Kipnis and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the notoriously contrarian author of Against Love, a witty and probing examination of why badly behaved men have been her lifelong fascination, on and off the page It's no secret that men often behave in intemperate ways, but in recent years we've witnessed so many spectacular public displays of male excess—disgraced politicians, erotically desperate professors, fallen sports icons—that we're left to wonder whether something has come unwired in the collective male psyche. In the essays collected here, Laura Kipnis revisits the archetypes of wayward masculinity that have captured her imagination over the years, scrutinizing men who have figured in her own life alongside more controversial public examples. Slicing through the usual clichés about the differences between the sexes, Kipnis mixes intellectual rigor and wit to give us compelling survey of the affinities, jealousies, longings, and erotics that structure the male-female bond.