Men Notes from an Ongoing Investigation Author:Laura Kipnis In Men, Kipnis dissects her fascination and identification with the opposite sex, especially the more confounding and intemperate male personalities she?s encountered during a lifetime of research.It?s no secret that men often behave in mystifying ways, but in recent years we?ve witnessed so many spectacular public displays of male excess?indece... more »nt politicians, sleazy academics, philandering sports stars?that we?re left to wonder whether something has come unwired in the collective male psyche.In the essays collected here, Kipnis revisits the archetypes of wayward masculinity that have captured her imagination over the years: the scumbag, the con man, the critic, the obsessive, cheaters, and many others.Examining men who have figured in her own life alongside the more notorious public examples, she draws out the masculine angst and sexual contradictions implicit in the erratic conduct of each. Far from the reactions of condescension and scorn that habitually greet such characters, Kipnis finds that they provoke in her complicated forms of sympathy and identification. Pushing past the usual clichés about differences between the sexes, Kipnis mixes intellectual rigor and careful analysis to give us compelling survey of the affinities, jealousies, longings, and erotics that structure the male-female bond.« less
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