Word: paglia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speaker -- at nonstop, sewing-machine speed -- is Camille Paglia, contrarian academic and feminist bete noire, and her 1990 book, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Yale University Press), is the most explosive tome to emerge from academe in quite some time. The book is about many things -- paganism, pop culture, androgyny, sexual conflicts -- but what has drawn the media with magnetic force is the author's contempt for modern feminists. Paglia writes with freshness and blithe arrogance, and she does not hesitate to hurl brazen insults. She accuses author Germaine Greer, for example, of becoming...
Along with the zingers, Paglia articulates positions that many people of both genders seem to want to hear these days. To them feminism has gone quite far enough, and they like Personae's neoconservative cultural message: Men have done the work of civilization and can take credit for most of its glories. Women are powerful too, but as the inchoate forces of nature are powerful. Religion and marriage are historically the best defenses against chaos...
Such theories have aroused profound displeasure among feminist authors. For one thing, as Teresa L. Ebert at the State University of New York, Albany, points out, they were caught napping by Paglia. "She wasn't taken seriously, but her attacks are part of Ronald Reagan's and Margaret Thatcher's conservatism," says Ebert. "They mean a backlash against women. Paglia is reviving old stereotypes with new energy." Harvard's Helen Vendler says Paglia "lives in hyperbole. It is a level of discourse appropriate to politics, sermons, headlines. She should be on talk shows, talking to Geraldo." She probably will...
Recently, I went to New York to interview Dr. Jeffries for the Crimson's weekly magazine, What Is To Be Done?. My interest was that of a journalist who, in the past, has let controversial figures such as Camille Paglia, Noam Chomsky and Meir Kahane tell their stories candidly. As a result of this interview and of my interactions with him, Jeffries has now concluded that I am part of "a media lynching" directed against...
...Paglia recently addressed a crowd of 1000 at MIT about the deleterious effect of the politically correct ideology on university education in America, according to Dahlgren...