Wise thoughts from Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa:
Some of my colleagues around the philosophy world have recently been discussing Laura Kipnis’s new book, Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus. I have a lot of thoughts about this book, but I’ll start here with one. (I may write more later.) This is kind of a big-picture thought about Kipnis’s starting points and outlook—I find some of her thoughts about sex and sexual assault to be surprisingly retrograde. I know that some of my colleagues are impressed by this book; I am not sure if they share Kipnis’s general sensibilities on these matters, or whether they just like it for some of its conclusions. At any rate, I think some people would be surprised by Kipnis’s sensibilities; the point of this post is to draw attention to some of them.
Feminist Philosophers 