CRITICAL MASS

Laura Kipnis and 'The Female Thing'

"It's sometimes been said that a colonized mentality far outlasted the political conditions of colonialism; Soviet Communism crumbled virtually overnight, but the inner apparatchik lives on. So to with female progress, it appears," writes Laura Kipnis in her new book, The Female Thing: Dirt, Sex, Envy, Vulnerability (Pantheon). In the latest chapter of the feminism...

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