Word: paglia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Born to what she called a poor but loving family of Italian immigrants in upstate New York, Paglia, 51, said she first became aware of paganism's war with organized religion while staring at the erotic pose of a Renaissance-era St. Sebastian in church as a young girl...
Thus began the first of the many paradoxes that are Camille Paglia...
While critics like Noam Chomsky have labeled Paglia as reactionary, Paglia's position on social issues give them pause. She is strongly pro-choice, strongly pro-pornography ("I've made an extensive study," she told the audience,) and favors abolishing age-of-consent laws governing sexual relationships...
What irks Paglia so much, she said, is not so much a lack of credible scholarship, but the rejection of nature, beauty and objective truth by post-modernists and post-structuralists...
Feminist scholars, for instance, "have never opened a biology book," Paglia said...