Known as a Feminist and culture critic Paglia is at her feisty, full-throated best in this series of short manifestos that spans her career from her breakthrough study, Sexual Personae, to the present Camille Paglia. 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.
From Camille Paglia, ‘Free Women, Free Men’ and No Sacred Cows
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It grew out of her doctoral dissertation at Yale, where her mentor was Harold Bloom. Nothing else in this collection can touch them. Her exegeses are prickly and acute, the Helen Vendler-meets-Patti Smith grad seminar you wanted but never quite got. One is modern feminism, at least the spongy wing of it she considers to be puritanical and man-bashing. Here is the tightest and liveliest summation of her position I can find in this book:. Feminism has become a catchall vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.
Free Women, Free Men
Look Inside. Mar 14, Minutes Buy. Now, for the first time, her best essays on the subject are gathered together in one concise volume.
Select locations are now offering limited curbside pickup service, and 12 locations are accepting returns during limited hours. Find the latest updates on our Road to Reopening here. Best-selling author Camille Paglia will talk about her new collection of essays that celebrates and challenges modern feminism from 7 p. Library events are free and open to the public. Registration is not required.
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How extremely disappointing.
Definitely one of the best!
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