Word: paglia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Camille Paglia, the outspoken and controversial humanities scholar, delivered a scathing criticism of the feminist movement and repeated her call for the abolition of Women's Studies during a speech at Wellesley College last night...
...Paglia, who sprang to national prominence after the 1990 publication of her book Sexual Personae, spoke on academic reform for nearly two hours before an capacity audience of about...
Defining feminism as the quest for "full political and legal equality of women," Paglia argued that "the real revolution has been lost." She attacked the current "cashmere sweater and pearls--yuppie genteel" feminism...
...Paglia called women's studies mediocre and scandalous. "It is absolutely necessary to mount a challenge against [it] for diluting feminism," she said...
...place of women's studies and gay studies, Paglia said she would advocate "Sex Studies," a field combining "men and women, gay and straight, with science as the keystone...