Laura Kipnis is an American cultural critic, essayist, educator, and former video artist. Her work focuses on sexual politics, gender issues, aesthetics, popular culture, and pornography. She began her career as a video artist, exploring similar themes in the form of video essays. She is professor emerita of media studies at Northwestern University in the department of radio-TV-film, where she teaches filmmaking. In recent years she has become known for debating sexual harassment, and free speech policies in higher education.

Men: Notes from an Ongoing Investigation
2014
ISBN 9781250075161
Love in the Time of Contagion: A Diagnosis
2022
ISBN 9780593316290
Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids
2015
ISBN 9781250081643
Selfish, shallow, and self-absorbed
2015
ISBN 9781250052933
How to Become a Scandal: Adventures in Bad Behavior
2010
ISBN 9780805089790
Against love a polemic
2003
ISBN 9780375719325
The Female Thing
2006
ISBN 9780375424175
Ecstasy Unlimited
1993
ISBN 9780816619979
Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America
1996
ISBN 9780822323433
Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus
2017
ISBN 9780062657886
Unwanted Advances
2017
ISBN 9780062657862Liebe - eine Abrechnung
2004
ISBN 9783593375373