Word: paglia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Paglia, best known for her books Sexual Personaeand Sex, Art, and American Culture, Criticized both professors and administrators for failing to live up to the ideals of "60s radicalism...
...Paglia outlined a series of nine proposals that would completely revamp modern American universities...
...Women's studies is draining the life out of America's best women students," Paglia said. She called women's studies scholars "incompetent in terms of intellectual history," accusing them of selectively reading history to create am exaggerated myth of an oppressive, patriarchal system...
...Paglia also proposed, among other things, that universities undertake serious study of popular culture, require courses in the history of mass media and teach literature of the remote past, especially that of ancient religious traditions...
...Paglia was introduced by Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53, who agreed with her view of a declining American university system...