I Can't Get No Satisfaction

Christine Smallwood

November 22, 2006 | This article appeared in the December 11, 2006 edition of The Nation.

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Laura Kipnis's The Female Thing takes women to task for perpetuating the notion that they're vulnerable.

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Christine Smallwood

Christine Smallwood, a writer in New York, is former associate literary editor of The Nation.

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