From the fiery intellectual provocateur and one of our most fearless advocates of gender equality, a brilliant, urgent essay collection that both celebrates modern feminism and challenges us to build an alliance of strong women and strong men.
Ever since the release of her seminal first book, Sexual Personae, Camille Paglia has remained one of feminism's most outspoken, independent, and searingly intelligent voices. Now, for the first time, her best essays on the subject are gathered together in one concise volume. Whether she's calling for equal opportunity for American women (years before the founding of the National Organization for Women), championing a more discerning standard of beauty that goes beyond plastic surgery's quest for eternal youth, lauding the liberating force of rock and roll, or demanding free and unfettered speech on university campuses and beyond, Paglia can always be counted on to get to the heart of matters large and small.
Author(s): Camille Paglia
Publisher: Pantheon
Year: 2017
Language: English
Commentary: LibGen P2P ed: complete, accurate metadata.
Pages: 352
Introduction ix
1 Sex and Violence, or Nature and Art 3
2 The Venus of Willendorf 38
3 Nefertiti 42
4 Madonna: Animality and Artifice 49
5 Rape and Modern Sex War 52
6 Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders: Academe in the Hour of the Wolf 58
7 The MIT Lecture: Crisis in the American Universities 62
8 The Strange Case of Clarence Thomas andAnita Hill 75
9 The Nursery School Campus: The Corrupting of the Humanities in the U.S. 78
10 The Return of Carry Nation: Catharine MacKinnonand Andrea Dworkin 85
11 A White Liberal Women’s Conference 92
12 Loose Canons: Review of Germaine Greer, Slip-Shod Sibyls 96
13 Men’s Sports Vanishing 102
14 Coddling Won’t Elect Women, Toughening Will 105
15 Academic Feminists Must Begin to Fulfill Their Noble, Animating Ideal 109
16 Gridiron Feminism 118
17 The Modern Battle of the Sexes 122
18 American Gender Studies Today 144
19 The Cruel Mirror: Body Type and Body Image as Reflected in Art 148
20 The Pitfalls of Plastic Surgery 159
21 Feminism Past and Present: Ideology, Action, and Reform 164
22 No Sex Please, We’re Middle Class 183
23 The Stiletto Heel 187
24 Scholars in Bondage: Review of Margot Weiss, Techniques of Pleasure; Staci
Newmahr, Playing on the Edge; and Danielle J. Lindemann, Dominatrix 191
25 Gender Roles: Nature or Nurture 211
26 Are Men Obsolete? 222
27 Put the Sex Back in Sex Ed 226
28 It’s Time to Let Teenagers Drink Again 229
29 Cliquish, Tunnel-Vision Intolerance Afflicts Too Many Feminists: Interview with
Deborah Coughlin, Feminist Times 232
30 Southern Women: Old Myths and New Frontiers 239
31 The Modern Campus Cannot Comprehend Evil 259
32 Why I Love The Real Housewives 262
33 What a Woman President Should Be Like 265
34 Feminist Trouble: Interview with Ella Whelan, Spiked Review 269
35 On Abortion 277
36 What’s in a Picture: Robert Mapplethorpe’s Portrait of Patti Smith for Horses 285
Illustrations 287
Acknowledgments 299
Index 301
Previous Publication Information 311
Illustration Credits 317
