Sara's review
Against Love: A Polemic by Laura Kipnis
Sara's review
rating:
bookshelves: have-read-excerpts
recommended for: anyone wishing to challenge their perceptions of normativity
status: Read in September, 2007
rating:
bookshelves: have-read-excerpts
recommended for: anyone wishing to challenge their perceptions of normativity
status: Read in September, 2007
I recently read a few excerpts from this book for one of my graduate courses: it was definitely comforting to encounter a different slant on the marriage industrial complex. Ironically, a few days before reading Kipnis I found myself sandwiched in between three women (who were my peers in age) while they were avidly discussing marriage and all its supposed joys. Two of them were married and one was about to be in a few months. Anyway, I often find myself at odds with most people because I am not interested in becoming a married little bunny. Many of my friends are married and I truly do respect their choice--despite the fact that I personally am not a fan of the marriage industrial complex. However, I often wonder why my choice to not participate in marriage is met with such vehement opposition..and, more importantly, I wonder why marriage is seen as immediately sanctified, normalized, and naturalized. It's not.
