Ecstasy Unlimited: On Sex, Capital, Gender, and Aesthetics

by Laura Kipnis, Paul Smith

Book by Kipnis, Laura

Genres: Gender, Sexuality, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Cultural, Theory, American

334 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Laura Kipnis is the author of Against Love: A Polemic; How to Become A Scandal; The Female Thing; Bound and Gagged; and the upcoming Men: Notes from an Ongoing Observation (out in November). Her books have been translated into fifteen languages. She's written essays and criticism for Slate, Harper’s, Playboy, New York Times Magazine, New York Times Book Review, and Bookforum. A former filmmaker, she teaches filmmaking at Northwestern University. She lives in Chicago and New York.

Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was really dense, I won't lie. It did bring up a lot of really interesting theoretical arguments, a lot of which were a bit lost on me. I appreciated the 'breaks' in between the more dense text with screenplay-style political commentary. Much of it was engaging and also funny. I don't really have much else to say I think, but I may come back to this at some point to cite it in a paper maybe.

[Dayna]

Read in grad school. Alas, can't remember enough to rate it.