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Feminism is broken: the current attempts to protect women from sexual abuse on campus and online have failed. Regulation is replacing education, and a woman’s hard-won right to be treated as a consenting adult is being repealed by well-meaning bureaucrats.
Unwanted Advances is an investigation that begins when contrarian feminist Laura Kipnis becomes the object of a protest march by student activists at her university after writing an essay about sexual paranoia on campus. The experience leads her to question women’s roles in national debates over free speech, “safe spaces,” and modern sexual mores. Kipnis argues for more honesty, presenting a timely critique of feminist paternalism and the covert sexual conservatism of hook-up culture.