Reviews
Praise for Camille Paglia's GLITTERING IMAGES "An essential work by an essential public intellectual." -- Vice "Dazzling . . . Compulsively readable . . . Paglia at her best." -- Salon BREAK, BLOW, BURN "She flies as high as you can go . . . Bold and convincing . . . Exemplary . . . A rich book." -- The New York Times Book Review "Paglia has put down her Molotov cocktails and picked up the lyre . . . [She] approaches poetry with a . . . reverence for craft." -- Newsday SEXUAL PERSONAE " Sexual Personae [is] an enormous sensation of a book, in all the better senses of 'sensation.' There is no book comparable in scope, stance, design, or insight." --Harold Bloom "A remarkable book, at once outrageous and compelling, fanatical and brilliant." -- The Washington Post Book World
Table of Content
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 and Anita Hill 75 9 The Nursery School Campus: The Corrupting of the Humanities in the U.S. 78 10 The Return of Carry Nation: Catharine MacKinnon and 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 Ed≥ 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
