together with Anita Hill and Soledad O’Brien. Kipnis said:Here’s a historical and political way of looking at the current moment. There have been, roughly speaking, two divergent tendencies in the struggle for women’s rights that come together in the issue of workplace harassment, which is why I think this all seems so significant. If you look at the history of feminism, going back to the 19th century, you’ve got, on the one hand, the struggle for what I’d call civic rights: the right to employment, the right to vote, to enter politics and public life. On the other side, there’s the struggle for women to have autonomy over our own bodies, meaning access to birth control, activism around rape, outlawing marital rape, and the fight for abortion rights. What we’re seeing now is the incomplete successes in both of these areas converging. We’ve never entirely attained civic equality. We’ve never entirely attained autonomy over our bodies. Which is why the right not to be sexually harassed in the workplace is the next important frontier in equality for women. New York Review of Books controversy Kipnis wrote, in a New York Times opinion piece "The Perils of Publishing in a #MeToo Moment" protesting the Books' firing of editor Ian Buruma: "One consequence of Mr. Buruma’s departure will be a new layer of safeguards we won’t even know are in place, including safeguards from the sort of intellectual risks The New York Review of Books always stood for." Select bibliography Books Ecstasy Unlimited: On Sex, Capital, Gender, and Aesthetics (Minneapolis, Minn.: University Of Minnesota Press, 1993) Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America (New York: Grove Press, 1996) Against Love: A Polemic (New York: Pantheon Books, 2003) The Female Thing: Dirt, Sex, Envy, Vulnerability (New York: Pantheon Books, 2006) How to Become a Scandal: Adventures in Bad Behavior (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2010) Men: Notes from an Ongoing Investigation (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2014) Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus (New York: HarperCollins, April 2017) Essays "The Perils of Publishing in a #MeToo Moment". The New York Times. 25 September 2018. "Why Are Scholars Such Snitches?", Chronicle of Higher Education, March 17, 2022 Reviews References Bibliography External links "Laura Kipnis" Laura Kipnis's Website, www.LauraKipnis.com. "Laura Kipnis" (faculty page), School of Communication at Northwestern University. Laura Kipnis on twitter Laura Kipnis on the 7th Avenue Project radio show