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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...
Nothing churns up publicity like the spectacle of feuding feminists. Just ask Camille Paglia. With her rancorous condemnation of writers like Gloria Steinem and Naomi Wolf, Paglia vaulted from the mossy groves of academia to the glossy pages of Vanity Fair. Now comes Katie Roiphe, 25, to play the part of heretic in the feminist crusade. In The Morning After: Sex, Fear, and Feminism on Campus, Roiphe targets what she calls the "rape culture" spawned by college feminists who claim that no woman is ever safe from the threat of rape or sexual harassment...
...America nowadays. Said's theme is how the three big realities of empire -- imperialism, "native" resistance, decolonization -- helped shape, in particular, the English and French novel. Culture and Imperialism includes brilliant readings of Conrad, Kipling, Camus, Yeats and other writers. It has been extolled by such critics as Camille Paglia and Henry Louis Gates Jr., and roundly damned by others, especially English ones, who fixated on Said's suggestion that an awareness of Caribbean slavery ran under the ironic tranquillity of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park. In England you can dump on God, Churchill or Prince Charles, but touch Jane...
...Nathan, is perhaps the most unsympathetic heroine in recent fiction. A recent graduate student whose dissertation is published and becomes a best seller, she is catapulted into the limelight. One tends to make the inevitable comparisons between Naomi Wolf and the commercial success of The Beauty Myth, or Camille Paglia and Sexual Personae or Susan Faludi and Backlash, all currently fashionable authors who are trotted out to discuss their tomes on talk shows...