Word: paglia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Camille Paglia, professor of humanities at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and author of Sexual Personae, roused the audience with her opinions on the roles of homosexuals in society...
...four presenters include Camille Paglia, the controversial author of Sexual Personae, Dr. Richard Isay, professor of psychiatry and author of a book on male homosexual development; April Martin, a lesbian development scholar at Yeshiva University; and Dr. Lawrence Hartmann, professor of psychiatry and former president of the American Psychiatric Association...
...Camille Paglia has observed, the reality is that throughout history, women have been chaperoned and greatly restricted. Marriages in most parts of the world were arranged until this century. Dating is a very recent phenomenon...
...sort of projection for people's emotions or aspirations. Diana's contemporaries, especially women, see her as a kind of feminist heroine, a fighter who knows her own worth, what she wants out of life and how to flout traditional protocol to get it. Even Camille Paglia, the American feminist movement's holy terror, got the message and has jumped on the bandwagon. Writing in the New Republic, she argued that "Diana may have become the most powerful image in world popular culture today...
...Camille Paglia rightly pointed out that you, as an "artist," have no responsibility to uphold society's values, but I really doubt you were thinking on that plane. The academic obsession with you in general seems to be doing your thinking for you. In fact, when you first started staking out the cultural fringe, you dismissed any idea of a higher social agenda. We were told that "Papa Don't Preach" was "Just a song." And "Open Your Heart" was "just a video." Now we are supposed to believe that you have transformed yourself into an icon of social tolerance...