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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Academics ought to have a longer shelf life than pop stars. So maybe Madonna wasn't such a swell role model for Camille Paglia, a humanities professor at Philadelphia's University of the Arts. Sexual Personae, a rambunctious survey of gender identities published in 1990, made Paglia into feminism's Material Girl. In a whiny time that sanctified women as victims, she celebrated woman's erotic and emotional majesty. Just like that, she was the hot intellectual starlet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Hurricane Camille Blows Again | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

...help me imagine what Harvard would be like under the rule of Lin, allow me to invoke the notorious and always amusing academic iconoclast Camille Paglia...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: The New Prez | 11/29/1994 | See Source »

...that nice?" said Paglia, mocking a college administrator of today. "How nice that you're gay! This is wonderful. We're going to help you be gay. Really, there's no need...

Author: By David B. Lat, | Title: The New Prez | 11/29/1994 | See Source »

...delighted to hear that all this talk about rampant infidelity was wildly inflated," declared postfeminist writer Camille Paglia. "But if they're saying the sexual revolution never happened, that's ridiculous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Now for the Truth About Americans and Sex | 10/17/1994 | See Source »

...blacks (51%)? Skip Long, a 33-year-old African American from Raleigh, North Carolina, thinks his race's discomfort with oral sex may owe much to religious teaching and the legacy of slavery: according to local legend, it was something slaves were required to do for their masters. Camille Paglia is convinced that oral sex is % a culturally acquired preference that a generation of college students picked up in the '70s from seeing Linda Lovelace do it in Deep Throat, one of the first - and last - X-rated movies that men and women went to see together. "They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Now for the Truth About Americans and Sex | 10/17/1994 | See Source »

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