Laura Kipnis
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Laura Kipnis (born 1956) is a professor of media studies at Northwestern University. She is also a cultural and media critic who focuses especially on gender issues, sexual politics, popular culture, and pornography. She began her career as a video artist, exploring similar themes in the form of video essays.
She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the San Francisco Art Institute and a Master of Fine Arts from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She has received fellowships for her work from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Her works include:
- Ecstasy Unlimited: On Sex, Capital, Gender, and Aesthetics (1993)
- Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America (1996)
- Against Love: A Polemic (2003)
- The Female Thing : Dirt, Sex, Envy, Vulnerability (2006)
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