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The Female Thing stages an intellectual demolition derby. Competing shibboleths about womanhood crash into each other, leaving behind the smoking wreckage of dogma. Her sentences are splenetic, exasperated, and very funny indeed. Not a page passes without a piercing aperçu, a wicked aside, or a trenchant formulation... Kipnis does such a good job of burning the entire forest of old ideas to the ground that she allows a few novel shoots of green to start heading skyward --Elle
As Kipnis sees it, the situation that educated, middle-class Western women find themselves in is fundamentally absurd. To say so - rather than pretending the solutions are obvious takes nerve. To say so with both humor and sang-froid - unlike the legions of ethically tormented personal essayists or the pratfalling clones of Bridget Jones - takes panache. --Salon
As Kipnis sees it, the situation that educated, middle-class Western women find themselves in is fundamentally absurd. To say so - rather than pretending the solutions are obvious takes nerve. To say so with both humor and sang-froid - unlike the legions of ethically tormented personal essayists or the pratfalling clones of Bridget Jones - takes panache. --Salon
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As Kipnis sees it, the situation that educated, middle-class Western women find themselves in is fundamentally absurd. To say so - rather than pretending the solutions are obvious - takes nerve. To say so with both humor and sang-froid - unlike the legions of ethically tormented personal essayists or the pratfalling clones of Bridget Jones - takes panache
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