San Francisco Public Library

Free women, free men, sex, gender, feminism, Camille Paglia

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Free women, free men

bibliography

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Camille Paglia

sex, gender, feminism

"From the fiery intellectual provocateur: a brilliant essay collection that both celebrates and challenges modern feminism--from motherhood to Madonna, football to Friedan, stilettos to Steinem. When Camille Paglia first burst onto the scene with her best-selling Sexual Personae, she established herself as a smart, fearless, and often dissenting voice among feminists. Now, for the first time, her best essays on the subject are gathered together in one concise volume. Whether she's declaring Madonna the future of feminism, asking if men are obsolete, calling for equal opportunity for American women years before the founding of N.O.W., or urging all women to love football, Paglia can always be counted on to get a discussion started. The rock-solid intellectual foundation beneath her fiery words assures her timeless relevance"--, Provided by publisher

Introduction -- Sex and violence, or nature and art -- The Venus of Willendorf -- Nefertiti -- Madonna : animality and artifice -- Rape and modern sex war -- Junk bonds and corporate raiders : academe in the hour of the wolf -- The MIT lecture : crisis in the American universities -- The strange case of Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill -- The nursery school campus : the corrupting of the humanities in the U.S. -- The return of Carry Nation : Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin -- A white liberal women's conference -- Loose cannons : review of Germaine Greer, Slip-shod sibyls -- Men's sports vanishing -- Coddling won't elect women, toughening will -- Academic feminists must begin to fulfill their noble, animating ideal -- Gridiron feminism -- The modern battle of the sexes -- American gender studies today -- The cruel mirror : body type and body image as reflected in art -- The pitfalls of plastic surgery -- Feminism past and present : ideology, action, and reform -- No sex please, we're middle class -- The stiletto heel -- Scholars in bondage : review of Margot Weiss, Techniques of pleasure; Staci Newmahr, Playing on the edge; and Danielle J. Lindemann, Dominatrix -- Gender roles : nature or nurture -- Are men obsolete? -- Put the sex back in sex ed -- It's time to let teenagers drink again -- Cliquish, tunnel-vision intolerance afflicts too many feminists : interview with Deborah Coughlin, Feminist times -- Southern women : old myths and new frontiers -- The modern campus cannot comprehend evil -- Why I love The real housewives -- What a woman president should be like -- Feminist trouble : interview with Ella Whelan, Spiked review -- On abortion -- What's in a picture : Robert Mapplethorpe's portrait of Patti Smith for Horses