Paglia, Camille (1947—)
Following the release of her provocative book Sexual Personae in 1990, Camille Paglia, a professor of Liberal Arts at the University of Pennsylvania, established herself...
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Social critic and educator Camille Paglia (born 1947) has outraged or befuddled countless readers with her defiantly iconoclastic writings. She has, for example, argued that pornography constitutes se...
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Berlin (dpa) - Telegenic German television presenter Eva Herman
revelled in the controversy generated by her outspoken views on the
failings of feminism, but when she praise...
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Great news: Bitches are back!
Being noble and self-denying and altruistic is totally over. Self-involved disco slags with flippy bangs are suddenly all the rage! The caring celeb—that gal...
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Great news: Bitches are back!
Being noble and self-denying and altruistic is totally over. Self-involved disco slags with flippy bangs are suddenly all the rage! The caring celeb—that gal wh...
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Little Fugue, by Robert Anderson. Ballantine, 384 pages, $24.95.
Edgar Allan Poe wrote that the death of a beautiful woman "is the most poetical topic in the world." There could hardly be a less w...
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Chalk up yet another writerly reaction to the trauma of 9/11. Four years on, we’re almost able to chart on a graph how some writers regurgitated bits of the smoke they ingested as super-reali...
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Chalk up yet another writerly reaction to the trauma of 9/11. Four years on, we’re almost able to chart on a graph how some writers regurgitated bits of the smoke they ingested as super-reali...
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Unable to obtain a video screener of the documentary Inside Deep Throat, and unwilling to return to my old soft-core and hard-core haunts around Times Square, I resolved a few weeks back not to rep...
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"I can remember going to some very, very high-powered and glamorous parties, with her or because of her, at, say, Roger Straus'," recalled the writer Stephen Koch, who became friends with Susan Son...
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“Not to compare myself to Simone de Beauvoir—who is, you know, this vast intellectual heroine—but I remember reading something that she said about when The Second Sex came out in ...
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