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{{shortShort description|American feminist academic and critic (born 1947)}}
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'''Camille Anna Paglia''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|p|ɑː|l|i|ə}}; born April 2, 1947) is an American academic and, social critic and [[Feminism|feminist]]. Paglia has beenwas a professor at the [[University of the Arts (Philadelphia)|University of the Arts]] in [[Philadelphia]], Pennsylvania, sincefrom 1984 until the university's closure in 2024.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.uarts.edu/staff-directory/cpaglia |title= Camille Paglia|website= Staff| publisher = U arts}}</ref> She is critical of many aspects of modern culture<ref name="TMN-2005-08-03">{{Cite news |newspaper=The Morning News |title=Birnbaum v. Camille Paglia |date=August 3, 2005
| first=Robert |last=Birnbaum |url= http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/birnbaum_v/camille_paglia.php | format = interview}}</ref><ref name= "cbc-2009-05-23">{{Cite news |title = An atheist's defence of religion: The paradox of Camille Paglia, the cultural gunslinger|first = Richard|last = Handler|date = May 23, 2009 | work = CBC News|url = http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/an-atheist-s-defence-of-religion-1.835709}}</ref> and is the author of ''[[Sexual Personae|Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson]]'' (1990) and other books. She is also a critic of contemporary [[American feminism]] and of [[post-structuralism]], as well as a commentator on multiple aspects of [[Culture of the United States|American culture]] such as its [[Visual art of the United States|visual art]], [[Music of the United States|music]], and [[Film in the United States|film history]].
 
== Personal life ==
 
Paglia was born in [[Endicott, New York]], the eldest child<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url= https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/camille-paglia-i-dont-get-along-with-lesbians-at-all-they-dont-like-me-and-i-dont-like-them-8076611.html |title=Camille Paglia – 'I don't get along with lesbians at all. They don't like me, and I don't like them'|last= Patterson |first=Christina|date=August 25, 2012|work=The Independent |access-date=May 30, 2017|language= en-GB}}</ref> of Pasquale and Lydia Anne (née Colapietro) Paglia. All four of her grandparents were born in [[Italy]]. Her mother immigratedemigrated to the United States at five years old from [[Ceccano]], in the [[province of Frosinone]], [[Lazio]], Italy.<ref name= "TMN-2005-08-03" /><ref>{{Citation | url = https://youtube.com/pg0hPidLPCk?t=41m37s | title = You tube | publisher = Google}}{{Dead link|date=November 2018 |bot= InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> Paglia has stated that her father's side of the family was from the [[Campania]]n towns of [[Avellino]], [[Benevento]], and [[Caserta]].{{Sfn | Paglia | 1994 | p = 61}} Paglia was raised [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]],<ref>{{cite news |work= [[The Wall Street Journal]]|url= https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-feminist-capitalist-professor-under-fire-11567201511|url-status=live|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20191230102135/https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-feminist-capitalist-professor-under-fire-11567201511 |archive-date=December 30, 2019|title= A Feminist Capitalist Professor Under Fire|last= Varadaraja |first= Tunku|date=August 30, 2019}}</ref> and attended primary school in rural [[Oxford, New York]], where her family lived in a working [[farmhouse]].<ref>{{Citation | title = Arcadia | newspaper = [[Financial Times]] | date = March 15, 1997 | page = 22}}</ref> Her father, a [[veteran]] of [[World War II]],<ref>{{Citation | title = Pasquale J. Paglia | type = obit | newspaper = Syracuse Herald Tribune | date = January 23, 1991}}</ref> taught at the Oxford Academy high school and exposed his young daughter to art through books he brought home about French art history. In 1957, her family moved to [[Syracuse, New York|Syracuse]], New York, so that her father could begin [[graduate school]]; he eventually became a professor of [[Romance languages]] at [[Le Moyne College]].<ref name="time-1992-01-13">{{Cite news |newspaper=Time |title=The Bête Noire of Feminism: Camille Paglia |first=Martha |last=Duffy |date=January 13, 1992 |url= http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,974660-1,00.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121106034740/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,974660-1,00.html |url-status= dead|archive-date= November 6, 2012}}</ref> She attended the Edward Smith Elementary School, T.&nbsp;Aaron Levy Junior High, and [[Nottingham Senior High School]].<ref name="Scotsman">{{Cite journal | last = Paglia| first = Camille | title =My Education | journal = The Scotsman | date = January 26, 2000}}</ref> In 1992, Carmelia Metosh, her [[Latin]] teacher for three years, said, "She always has been controversial. Whatever statements were being made (in class), she had to challenge them. She made good points then, as she does now."<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite news |title= Hurricane Camille |first= James 'Jim' | last = McKeever | newspaper = Syracuse Herald American |location= Syracuse, NY |date= November 22, 1992}}</ref> Paglia thanked Metosh in the acknowledgementsacknowledgments to ''Sexual Personae'', later describing her as "the [[dragon lady]] of Latin studies, who breathed fire at principals and [[school board]]s".<ref name = "Scotsman" />
 
During her stays at a summer [[Girl Scouts USA|Girl Scout]]<ref>{{cite web |title=A Short History of the Beaverkill Valley |url= http://beaverkillfriends.org/Pages/StoryV2History.html |website=Friends of Beaverkill Community |access-date=March 31, 2019}}</ref> camp in [[Thendara, New York]], she took on a variety of new names, including Anastasia (her [[Confirmation (Christian sacrament)|confirmation]] name, inspired by the film ''[[Anastasia (1956 movie)|Anastasia]]''), Stacy, and Stanley.{{Sfn | Paglia | 1994 | p = 428–29}} A crucially significant event for her was when an [[outhouse]] exploded after she poured too much [[quicklime]] into the latrine. "That symbolized everything I would do with my life and work. Excess and extravagance and explosiveness. I would be someone who would look into the latrine of culture, into pornography and crime and [[psychopathology]]... and I would drop the bomb into it".<ref>{{Cite news|url= httphttps://articleswww.chicagotribune.com/1994-/12-/08/featurescamille-paglia/9412080352_1_bomp-homoeroticism-hog-heaven |title=Camille Paglia! |last=Lavin |first=Cheryl |newspaper= Chicago Tribune | date = December 8, 1994 |access-date=January 18, 2017}}</ref><ref name = "nyt-1994-11-20">{{Cite news |url= https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/20/books/advertisements-for-themselves.html |title=Advertisements for Themselves |first=Wendy |last=Steiner |newspaper=The New York Times |date = November 20, 1994}}</ref>
 
For more than a decade, Paglia was the partner of artist Alison Maddex.<ref>{{cite news |title= In a New Museum, a Blue Period |first=William L |last=Hamilton |date=March 11, 1999 |newspaper=The New York Times |url= https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40A11F8345B0C728DDDAA0894D1494D81 |archive-url= https://archive.today/20130130144017/http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40A11F8345B0C728DDDAA0894D1494D81 |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 30, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title= Camille Paglia: Warrior for the word |last= Lauerman |first= Kerry |date=April 7, 2005 |newspaper=Salon |url= http://www.salon.com/books/int/2005/04/07/paglia |access-date= October 9, 2010 |archive-date=January 23, 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110123234737/http://www.salon.com/books/int/2005/04/07/paglia |url-status=dead}}</ref> Paglia legally adopted Maddex's son (who was born in 2002).<ref name= "gm-2007-10-18">{{Cite news |title= Camille Paglia: Hillary Clinton can't win – and shouldn't |newspaper= The Globe & Mail |first= Margaret |last= Wente |date=October 18, 2007 |url= https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/camille-paglia-hillary-clinton-cant-win---and-shouldnt/article1082452/
| location= Toronto}}</ref> In 2007, the couple separated<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.towleroad.com/2009/06/camille-paglia-gay-activists-childish-for-demanding-rights.html |title= Camille Paglia: Gay Activists 'Childish' for Demanding Rights |publisher= Towleroad |date= June 25, 2009 |access-date= June 28, 2012 |archive-date= April 1, 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150401072717/http://www.towleroad.com/2009/06/camille-paglia-gay-activists-childish-for-demanding-rights.html |url-status= dead }}</ref> but remained "harmonious co-parents", in the words of Paglia, who lived {{convert|2|mi|km|0|abbr=off|sp=us|spell=on}} apart.<ref name=":0" />
 
Paglia is an [[atheist]], and has stated she has "a very spiritual [[mysticism|mystic]] view of the universe".<ref name=PagliaMystic1>{{cite web|url=https://www.spl.org/Seattle-Public-Library/documents/transcriptions/2017/17-03-20_Camille-Paglia.pdf|title=Camille Paglia discusses 'Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism|publisher=[[Seattle Public Library]]|accessdate=June 12, 2022}}</ref> She has expressed interest in [[astrology]] and has written about it in several of her works, including ''Sexual Personae'': "I'm an astrologer - people don't mention this! I mean, everyone's attacked me for everything else. I mean, I'm an astrologer - it's right in my book. I endorse astrology. I believe in astrology. Will someone attack me for that? No!"<ref>{{cite web|title=Camille Paglia, astrologer|url=https://www.quut.com/cpc/pag-astr.html|work=Questionable Utility Company|accessdate=March 7, 2024}}</ref>
 
== Education ==
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According to Paglia, while in college she punched a "marauding drunk",<ref name="nyt-1994-11-20"/> and takes pride in having been put on [[probation]] for committing 39&nbsp;pranks.<ref name="Scotsman" />
 
Paglia attended [[Yale]] as a [[graduate student]], and she claims to have been the only open lesbian at [[Yale Graduate School]] from 1968 to 1972.<ref name="nyt-1994-11-20"/><ref>{{Cite news |first=Dan|last=Savage | title = Interview |newspaper=The Stranger |date = October 4, 1992}}</ref> At Yale, Paglia quarreled with [[Rita Mae Brown]], whom she later characterized as "then darkly [[Nihilism|nihilist]]," and argued with the [[New Haven|New Haven, Connecticut]], Women's Liberation Rock Band when they dismissed the [[Rolling Stones]] as [[Sexism|sexist]].<ref name="Editor 1998">"Letter to the Editor", Camille Paglia, "Chronicle of Higher Education", June 17, 1998.</ref> Paglia was mentored by [[Harold Bloom]].<ref name=Showalter /> ''Sexual Personae'' was then titled "The Androgynous Dream: the image of the androgyne as it appears in literature and is embodied in the [[psyche (psychology)|psyche]] of the artist, with reference to the visual arts and the cinema."<ref name="ReferenceB">{{Citation | type = letter | first = Camille A | last = Paglia | title = To Professor Carolyn Heilbrun | date = February 13, 1972 | publisher = Knopf Archive, Humanities Research Center | place = Austin, Texas}}</ref>
 
Paglia read [[Susan Sontag]] and aspired to emulate what she called her "celebrity, her positioning in the media world at the border of the high arts and popular culture." Paglia first saw Sontag in person on October 15, 1969 ([[Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam|Vietnam Moratorium Day]]), when Paglia, then a Yale graduate student, was visiting a friend at [[Princeton University|Princeton]]. In 1973, Paglia, a militant feminist and open lesbian, was working at her first academic job at [[Bennington College]]. She considered Sontag a radical who had challenged male dominance. The same year, Paglia drove to an appearance by [[Susan Sontag]] at Dartmouth, hoping to arrange for her to speak at Bennington, but found it difficult to find the money for Sontag's speaking fee; Paglia relied on help from Richard Tristman, a friend of Sontag's, to persuade her to come. Bennington College agreed to pay Sontag $700 (twice what they usually offered speakers but only half Sontag's usual fee) to give a talk about contemporary issues. Paglia staged a poster campaign urging students to attend Sontag's appearance. Sontag arrived at Bennington Carriage Barn, where she was to speak, more than an hour late, and then began reading what Paglia recalled as a "boring and bleak" short story about "nothing" in the style of a [[Nouveau roman|French New Novel]].<ref name=RollysonandPaddock />
 
As a result of Sontag's Bennington College appearance, Paglia began to become disenchanted with her, believing that she had withdrawn from confrontation with the academic world, and that her "mandarin disdain" for popular culture showed an elitism that betrayed her early work, which had suggested that high and low culture both reflected a new sensibility.<ref name=RollysonandPaddock />
 
== Career ==
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Paglia is on the editorial board of the classics and [[humanities]] journal ''[[Arion (journal)|Arion]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.bu.edu/arion/about-arion/ |title= About Arion |publisher= Boston University |access-date= June 28, 2012 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120708062804/http://www.bu.edu/arion/about-arion/ |archive-date= July 8, 2012 |df= mdy-all }}</ref> She wrote a regular column for Salon.com from 1995 to 2001, and again from 2007 to 2009. Paglia resumed writing a Salon.com column in 2016.<ref>{{Cite news |url= http://www.salon.com/2016/02/11/sexism_has_nothing_to_do_with_it_camille_paglia_on_hillary_clinton_gloria_steinem_and_why_new_hampshire_women_broke_for_bernie_sanders/ |title="Sexism has nothing to do with it": Camille Paglia on Hillary Clinton, Gloria Steinem - and why New Hampshire women broke for Bernie Sanders |last=Paglia |first=Camille |newspaper=[[Salon (website)|Salon]] |date=February 12, 2016}}</ref>
 
Paglia cooperated with Carl Rollyson and Lisa Paddock in their writing of ''Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon'', sending them detailed letters from which they quoted with her permission. Rollyson and Paddock note that Sontag "had her lawyer put our publisher on notice" when she realized thatshe theywas wereto investigatingbe her life andthe careersubject.<ref name=RollysonandPaddock>{{Citation | last1 = Rollyson | first1 = Carl | last2 = Paddock | first2 = Lisa | title = Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon | place = New York | publisher = WW Norton & Co | year = 2000}}</ref>
 
Paglia participates in the decennial poll of film professionals conducted by ''[[Sight & Sound]]'' which asks participants to submit a list of what they believe to be the ten [[List of films considered the best|greatest films of all time]]. According to her responses to the poll in 2002, 2012, and 2022, the films Paglia holds in highest regard include ''[[Ben-Hur (1959 film)|Ben-Hur]]'', ''[[Blowup]]'', ''[[Citizen Kane]]'', ''[[La Dolce Vita]]'', ''[[The Godfather]]'', ''[[The Godfather Part II|The Godfather: Part&nbsp;II]]'', ''[[Gone with the Wind (film)|Gone with the Wind]]'', ''[[Lawrence of Arabia (film)|Lawrence of Arabia]]'', ''[[North by Northwest]]'', ''[[Orpheus (film)|Orphée]]'', ''[[Persona (1966 film)|Persona]]'', ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]'', ''[[The Ten Commandments (1956 film)|The Ten Commandments]]'', and ''[[Vertigo (film)|Vertigo]]''.<ref>{{Citation | url = http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/polls/topten/poll/voter.php?forename=Camille&surname=Paglia | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120625143718/http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/polls/topten/poll/voter.php?forename=Camille&surname=Paglia | url-status = dead | archive-date = June 25, 2012 | title = How the directors and critics voted: Camille Paglia | year = 2002 | publisher = [[Sight & Sound]] via BFI | place = UK}}</ref><ref>{{Citation | url = http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/voter/747 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120819021249/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/sightandsoundpolls/2012/voter/747 | url-status = dead | archive-date = August 19, 2012 | title = Camille Paglia | year = 2012 | publisher = [[Sight & Sound]] via BFI | place = UK}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/greatest-films-all-time/all-voters/camille-paglia | title=Camille Paglia &#124; BFI }}</ref>
 
In 2005, Paglia was named as one of the top 100 public intellectuals by the journals ''[[Foreign Policy (magazine)|Foreign Policy]]'' and ''[[Prospect (magazine)|Prospect]]''.<ref name="gm-2007-10-18"/> In 2012, an article in ''[[The New York Times]]'' remarked that {{nowrap|"[a]nyone}} who has been following the body count of the culture wars over the past decades knows Paglia".<ref name=on-art/> Paglia has said that she is willing to have her entire career judged on the basis of her composition of what she considers to be "probably the most important sentence that she has ever written": "God is man's greatest idea."<ref>{{cite web|title=Camille Paglia| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120524081033/http://bigideas.tvo.org/episode/128098/camille-paglia | archive-date = May 24, 2012 |url=http://bigideas.tvo.org/episode/128098/camille-paglia|work=Big Ideas|publisher=[[TVOntario|TVO]]|date=November 7, 2009}}</ref>
 
== Views ==
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Though Paglia admires [[Simone de Beauvoir]] and ''[[The Second Sex]]'' ("the supreme work of modern feminism... its deep learning and massive argument are unsurpassed") as well as [[Germaine Greer]],<ref name = Showalter /> ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' critic Martha Duffy writes that Paglia "does not hesitate to hurl brazen insults" at several feminists. In an interview, Paglia stated that to be effective, one has to "name names"; criticism should be concrete. Paglia stated that many critics "escape into abstractions", rendering their criticism "intellectualized and tame".<ref name= "Rodden2001">{{cite book|first=John|last= Rodden|title= Performing the Literary Interview: How Writers Craft Their Public Selves|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=WzMemaK2RMEC&pg=PA167 |year= 2001|publisher=[[University of Nebraska Press]]|location= Lincoln|isbn=0-8032-3939-4|page=174}}</ref> Paglia was known as one of the scholars and feminists that [[Feminism of Madonna|theorized]] American singer [[Madonna]] within feminism and for which publications such as ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]'' called her the "high priestess of [[post-feminism]]".<ref name="Madonna">{{cite magazine|title=Madonna|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zUE-AQAAIAAJ|year=1998|magazine=[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]|page=135|url-access=limited}}</ref>
 
Paglia accused Greer of becoming "a drone in three years" as a result of her early success; Paglia has also criticized the work of feminist activist [[Diana Fuss]].<ref name= "time-1992-01-13" /> [[Elaine Showalter]] calls Paglia "unique in the hyperbole and virulence of her hostility to virtually all the prominent feminist activists, public figures, writers and scholars of her generation", mentioning [[Carolyn Heilbrun]], [[Judith Butler]], [[Carol Gilligan]], [[Marilyn French]], [[Zoe Baird]], [[Kimba Wood]], [[Susan Thomases]], and [[Hillary Clinton]] as targets of her criticism.<ref name= Showalter /> Paglia has accused [[Kate Millett]] of starting "the repressive, [[Stalinism|Stalinist]] style in feminist criticism."<ref name= "Salon-1999-06-05">{{Cite news |title=Kate Millett, the ambivalent feminist |first=Leslie |last=Crawford |newspaper= Salon |date=June 5, 1999 |url= http://www.salon.com/people/feature/1999/06/05/millet/print.html}}</ref> Paglia has repeatedly criticized [[Patricia Ireland]], former president of the [[National Organization for Women]] (NOW), calling her a "sanctimonious", unappealing role model for women<ref>{{cite web |first= Camille |last=Paglia|url= http://www.salon.com/april97/columnists/paglia970429.html |title= Why I Go for Women with Big Beaks |website=[[Salon.com]]|publisher=[[Salon Media Group]]|location=San Francisco, [[California|CA]] |date=April 29, 1997 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20081230063354/http://www.salon.com/april97/columnists/paglia970429.html |archive-date= December 30, 2008}}</ref> whose "smug, arrogant" attitude is accompanied by "painfully limited processes of thought".<ref>{{cite web | first = Camille | last = Paglia | url = http://208.17.81.135/col/pagl/1997/10/14frames.html | title = Men and their Discontents | website = [[Salon.com]] | publisher = [[Salon Media Group]] | location = San Francisco, CA | date = October 14, 1974 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://archive.today/20100427052432/http://208.17.81.135/col/pagl/1997/10/14frames.html | archive-date = April 27, 2010 | df = mdy-all | access-date = January 16, 2009 }}</ref> Paglia contends that under Ireland's leadership, NOW "damaged and marginalized the women's movement".<ref>{{cite web |first=Camille|last= Paglia |url= http://archive.salon.com/people/col/pagl/2000/12/06/year_end/print.html |title=The Peevish Porcupine Beats the Shrill Rooster |website=[[Salon.com]] |publisher=[[Salon Media Group]] |location=San Francisco, CA |date= December 6, 2000 |access-date=June 28, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090206142246/http://archive.salon.com/people/col/pagl/2000/12/06/year_end/print.html |archive-date=February 6, 2009 }}</ref>
 
In 1999, [[Martha Nussbaum]] wrote an essay called "The Professor of Parody", in which she criticized Judith Butler for retreating to abstract theory disconnected from real world problems.<ref>{{cite news|first1=Robert |last1= Boynton |title=Who Needs Philosophy?|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/21/magazine/who-needs-philosophy.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |location= New York City|date=November 21, 1999 |access-date= December 12, 2015}}</ref> Paglia reacted to the essay by stating that the criticism was "long overdue", but characterized the criticism as "one [[Political correctness|PC]] diva turning against another". She criticized Nussbaum for failing to make her criticisms earlier while accusing her of borrowing Paglia's ideas without acknowledgement. She called Nussbaum's "preparation or instinct for sex analysis... dubious at best", but nevertheless stated that "Nussbaum is a genuine scholar who operates on a vastly higher intellectual level than Butler".<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.salon.com/it/col/pagl/1999/02/24pagl.html|title = Butler vs. Nussbaum|website = [[Salon.com]]|publisher = [[Salon Media Group]]|location = San Francisco, CA|date = February 24, 1999|access-date = July 2, 2009|archive-date = June 25, 2009|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090625205734/http://www.salon.com/it/col/pagl/1999/02/24pagl.html|url-status = dead}}</ref>
 
Many feminists have criticized Paglia; [[Christina Hoff Sommers]] calls her "Perhaps the most conspicuous target of feminist opprobrium," noting that the ''Women's Review of Books'' described ''Sexual Personae'' as [[patriarchy]]'s "counter-assault on feminism". Sommers relates that when Paglia appeared at a [[Brown University]] forum, feminists signed a petition censuring her and demanding an investigation into procedures for inviting speakers to the campus.<ref name=Sommers>{{Citation | last = Sommers | first = Christina Hoff | title = Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women | place = New York | publisher = Simon & Schuster | year = 1995| title-link = Who Stole Feminism? How Women Have Betrayed Women }}</ref> Some feminist critics have characterized Paglia as an "[[Anti-feminism|anti-feminist]] feminist", critical of central features of much contemporary feminism but holding out "her own special variety of feminist affirmation".<ref>{{Cite book |first= Peter |last=Loptson |title=Readings on human nature |date= 1998 |isbn=1-55111-156-X |page=490 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=6bGOKpFOY7kC&q=camille%20paglia&pg=PA490 | publisher =Broadview Press|location= Peterborough, Canada}}</ref>
 
[[Naomi Wolf]] traded a series of sometimes personal attacks with Paglia throughout the early 1990s. In ''[[The New Republic]]'', Wolf wrote that Paglia "poses as a sexual renegade but is in fact the most dutiful of patriarchal daughters" and characterized Paglia as intellectually dishonest.<ref>{{cite magazine | first = Naomi | last = Wolf | author-link=Naomi Wolf |title = Feminist Fatale | newspaper = The New Republic | date = March 16, 1992 | pages = 23–25}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine | first = Camille | last = Paglia | title = Wolf Pack | magazine = [[The New Republic]] | date = April 13, 1992 | pages = 4–5 |ref= none}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine | first1 = Naomi | last1 = Wolf | first2 = Camille | last2 = Paglia | title = The Last Words | newspaper = The New Republic | date = May 18, 1992 | pages = 4–5}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Viner|first= Katharine |title= Stitched up|url= https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/sep/01/society2 |newspaper= The Guardian| date = August 31, 2001|location= London}}</ref> In a 1991 speech, Paglia criticized Wolf for blaming anorexia on the media, calling Wolf a "twit".<ref>{{Citation | title = Gifts of Speech | url = http://gos.sbc.edu/p/paglia.html | last = Paglia | format = lecture | date = September 19, 1991 | publisher = [[MIT]] | place = Cambridge, Massachusetts}}</ref> [[Gloria Steinem]] said of Paglia that, "Her calling herself a feminist is sort of like a [[Nazi]] saying they're not [[Anti-Semitism|anti-Semitic]]."<ref>{{Cite news
| title= New enemies list for some of you feminists |newspaper= Reading Eagle |last=Fields |first=Suzanne |date= May 14, 1992 |url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JLUxAAAAIBAJ&pg=1293%2C8699227}}</ref> Paglia called Steinem "the [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]] of feminism".<ref name= "tmj-1992-12-06">{{Cite news |title= Ideas flying, a maverick breaks the feminist mold |last= Blinkhorn |first= Lois |newspaper= The Milwaukee Journal |date= December 6, 1992 |url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=06AaAAAAIBAJ&pg=1706%2C3894467 }}{{Dead link|date=October 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> [[Katha Pollitt]] calls Paglia one of a "seemingly endless parade of social critics [who] have achieved celebrity by portraying not sexism but feminism as the problem". Pollitt writes that Paglia has glorified "male dominance", and has been able to get away with things "that might make even [[Rush Limbaugh]] blanch," because she is a woman.<ref>{{cite web |urllast=Pollitt |first=Katha |author-link=Katha Pollitt |date=November 1997 |title=Feminism's Unfinished Business |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/issues/97nov/pollitt.htm |titleurl-status=dead Feminism's|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100429200713/https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/97nov/pollitt.htm Unfinished Business|archive-date=2010-04-29 |access-date= May 25, 2008 |last= Pollitt |first= Katha |author-link= Katha Pollitt |date = November 1997 |work= The Atlantic}}</ref>
 
Paglia's view that rape is sexually motivated has been endorsed by [[Evolutionary psychology|evolutionary psychologists]] [[Randy Thornhill]] and [[Craig T. Palmer]]; they comment that "Paglia... urges women to be skeptical toward the feminist 'party line' on the subject, to become better informed about risk factors, and to use the information to lower their risk of rape".<ref>{{Citation | last1 = Thornhill | first1 = Randy | last2 = Palmer | first2 = Craig T | title = A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion | place = Cambridge, Massachusetts | publisher = MIT Press | year = 2000 | page = 183}}</ref>
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| url=https://www.salon.com/2007/04/11/global_warming_14/}}</ref>
| url=https://www.salon.com/2007/04/11/global_warming_14/}}</ref> [[François Cusset]] writes that Paglia, like other major American public intellectuals after [[World War&nbsp;II]], owes her broader recognition mainly to the political repercussions of polemics that first erupted on college campuses, in her case to a polemic against foreign intellectualism. He says she achieved phenomenal success when she called Foucault a "bastard", thereby providing (together with [[Alan Sokal]]'s ''[[Social Text]]'' parody) the best evidence for [[Paul de&nbsp;Man]]'s view that theory should be defined negatively, based on the opposition it arouses.<ref name=Cusset>{{Citation | last = Cusset | first = François | title = French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States | pages = XVIII, 37 | place = Minneapolis | publisher = University of Minnesota Press | year = 2008 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=XlaXsouHl3UC&pg=PR18| isbn = 978-0816647323 }}</ref>
 
However, Paglia's assessment of French writers is not purely negative. She has called [[Simone de Beauvoir]]'s ''[[The Second Sex]]'' (1949) "brilliant and imperious" and she traces the lineage of her "dissident feminism", not from Betty Friedan but from Beauvoir. Paglia also identified [[Jean-Paul Sartre]]'s work as part of a high period in literature. She has praised [[Roland Barthes]]'s ''[[Mythologies (book)|Mythologies]]'' (1957) and [[Gilles Deleuze]]'s ''[[Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty]]'' (1967), while finding both men's later work flawed. Of [[Gaston Bachelard]], who influenced Paglia, she wrote "[his] dignified yet fluid phenomenological descriptive method seemed to me ideal for art", adding that he was "the last modern French writer I took seriously".{{Sfn|Paglia|1992|p=243}}{{Sfn|Paglia|1994|p=232}}<ref>{{Citation|url=http://www.salon.com/july97/columnists/paglia2970722.html |title=Of Versace and killer prom queens |page=2 |date=July 22, 1997 |newspaper=[[Salon (website)|Salon]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080411071450/http://www.salon.com/july97/columnists/paglia2970722.html |archive-date=April 11, 2008 }}</ref>
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=== Politics ===
 
Paglia characterizes herself as a [[Libertarianism in the United States|libertarian]].<ref name="smh-2005-04-08"/><ref>{{cite news | last = Pagila | first = Camille | title = The Drinking Age Is Past Its Prime | url = http://time.com/72546/drinking-age-alcohol-repeal | magazine = [[Time (magazine)|Time]] | date = April 23, 2014 }}</ref> She opposes laws against prostitution, pornography, [[drugs]], and abortion. She is also opposed to [[affirmative action]] laws.<ref>{{cite news | last = Postrel | first = Virginia | author-link = Virginia Postrel | title = Interview with the Vamp | url = http://reason.com/archives/1995/08/01/interview-with-the-vamp | work = [[Reason (magazine)|Reason]] | date = August–September 1995 }}</ref><ref name="eagle-1992-12-20">{{Cite news |last=Killough |first=George | title = Paglia attacks political correctness |url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DKwkAAAAIBAJ&pg=5977%2C2051846|newspaper=[[Reading Eagle]] |publisher= William S. Flippin | location = Reading, [[Pennsylvania|PA]] |date=December 20, 1992 }}</ref> Some of her views have been characterized as [[conservatism in the United States|conservative]], although when asked in 20172016 if she considers herself a cultural conservative she replied: "No, not at all... Conservative would mean I was cleaving to something past which was great, and no longer is... and usuallyUsually I'm not saying we should return to anything. I do believe we're moving inexorably into the future."<ref name= "time-1992-01-13"/><ref>{{Cite web|url= https://m.youtubeconversationswithtyler.com/watch?v=GQi1JO9Kuxwrepisodes/camille-paglia/|title = Is Camille Paglia aon CulturalHer Conservative?Lifestyle of Observation and Lamb Vindaloo | work = Conversations with Tyler | viadate = [[YouTube]]}}{{cbignore}}{{DeadApril Youtube links|date=February25, 20222016}}</ref>
 
Paglia criticized [[Bill Clinton]] for not resigning after the [[Monica Lewinsky scandal]], which she says "paralyzed the government for two years, leading directly to our blindsiding by [[9/11]]".<ref name="reason" /> In the [[2000 United States presidential election|2000 U.S. presidential campaign]], she voted for the [[Green Party of the United States|Green Party]] candidate [[Ralph Nader]] "[because] I detest the arrogant, corrupt [[Base and superstructure|superstructure]] of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]], with which I remain stubbornly registered."<ref name= "reason">{{cite magazine | title = Who's Getting Your Vote? | magazine = [[Reason (magazine)|Reason]] | publisher = [[Reason Foundation]] | location = Washington DC | date = November 2004 | url = http://www.reason.com/news/show/29304.html | access-date = October 27, 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081029233711/http://www.reason.com/news/show/29304.html | archive-date = October 29, 2008 | url-status = dead }}</ref>
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=== Child sexuality ===
 
In accordance with a highly politicised view of child abuse, Paglia notably commented in an interview in 1992: "In the case of [[Sinead O'Connor]], child abuse was justified". This was her response to the singer's action on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', where she tore up a picture of the pope in protest of the unfolding [[Catholic Church sexual abuse cases|child sexual abuse scandal surrounding the Catholic Church]].[<ref>{{Cite web |date=1992-11-02 |title=Transcript: Interview: Camille Paglia |url=https://www.tvo.org/transcript/008445/interview-camille-paglia] |access-date=2024-01-20 |website=TVO Today}}</ref> In 1993, Paglia signed a manifesto supporting [[North American Man/Boy Love Association|NAMBLA]], a [[pederasty]] and [[pedophilia]] advocacy organization.<ref>{{cite news | last = Paglia | first = Camille | title = The Drinking Age Is Past Its Prime | url= http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100261734/allen-ginsberg-camille-paglia-and-the-literary-champions-of-paedophilia/ | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140306014809/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100261734/allen-ginsberg-camille-paglia-and-the-literary-champions-of-paedophilia/ | work = [[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] | date = March 1, 2014 | url-status = dead | archive-date=March 6, 2014}}</ref><ref name="salonissue">{{cite magazine | title = Camille Paglia's online advice for the culturally disgruntled | magazine = [[Salon (website)|Salon]] | publisher = Salon Media Group | location = San Francisco, CA | date = April 15, 1997 | url = http://www.salon.com/april97/columnists/paglia970415.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20000510042252/http://www.salon.com/april97/columnists/paglia970415.html | access-date = September 7, 2019 | url-status = dead | archive-date = May 10, 2000 }}</ref> In 1994, Paglia supported lowering the [[Ages of consent in North America|legal age of consent]] to 14. She noted in a 1995 interview with pro-pedophile activist [[Bill Andriette]], "I fail to see what is wrong with erotic fondling with any age."{{sfn |Paglia|1994 |pages = [https://archive.org/details/vampstrampsnewes00pagl/page/90 90]–91}}<ref>{{cite web|first= Camille|last=Paglia|url= http://archive.guidemag.com/magcontent/invokemagcontent.cfm?ID=E6B2CF78-031D-11D4-AD990050DA7E046B|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110711133353/http://archive.guidemag.com/magcontent/invokemagcontent.cfm?ID=E6B2CF78-031D-11D4-AD990050DA7E046B |title=Has the gay movement turned down the wrong path?|website=The Guide|publisher= Bill Andriette|location= Montréal, Canada|date=August 1995|access-date= September 7, 2019 | url-status = dead | archive-date= July 11, 2011}}</ref> In a 1997 ''[[Salon (website)|Salon]]'' column, Paglia expressed the view that male pedophilia correlates with the heights of a civilization, stating "I have repeatedly protested the lynch-mob hysteria that dogs the issue of man-boy love. In ''[[Sexual Personae]]'', I argued that male pedophilia is intricately intertwined with the cardinal moments of Western civilization."<ref name= "salonissue"/> Paglia noted in several interviews, as well as ''Sexual Personae'', that she supportssupported the legalization of certain forms of [[Legality of child pornography|child pornography]].<ref name= "timeinterview">{{cite magazine | title = The Bête Noire of Feminism: Camille Paglia | magazine = [[Time (magazine)|Time]] | publisher = [[Time (magazine)|Time]] | location = New York City | date = January 13, 1992 | url = http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,974660,00.html | access-date = September 7, 2019 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Camille|last=Paglia|url= http://gos.sbc.edu/p/paglia.html|title=Crisis In The American Universities|website=Gift of Speech |publisher= [[Sweet Briar College]] |location= Sweet Briar, [[Virginia|VA]] |date=September 19, 1991|access-date=September 7, 2019}}</ref>{{sfn|Paglia|1994 |pages = [https://archive.org/details/vampstrampsnewes00pagl/page/90 90]–91}}
 
She later changed her views on the matter. In an interview for [[Radio New Zealand]]'s ''Saturday Morning'' show, conducted on April 28, 2018, by [[Kim Hill (broadcaster)|Kim Hill]], Paglia was asked, "Are you a libertarian on the issue of pedophilia?", to which she replied, "In terms of the present day, I think it's absolutely impossible to think we could reproduce the Athenian code of pedophilia, of boy-love, that was central to culture at that time. [...] We must protect children, and I feel that very very strongly. The age of consent for sexual interactions between a boy and an older man is obviously disputed, at what point that should be. I used to think that fourteen (the way it is in some places in the world) was adequate. I no longer think that. I think young people need greater protection than that. [...] This is one of those areas that we must confine to the realm of imagination and the history of the arts."<ref>{{cite web |last1= Paglia |first1= Camille |title=Camille Paglia — Free Women, Free Men |url= https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018642586/camille-paglia-free-women-free-men |website= Radio New Zealand |access-date=August 22, 2020 |location= Wellington, NZ | at =44 min 29 s |date=April 22, 2018}}</ref>
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== Books ==
 
=== ''Sexual Personae'' (1990) ===
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Paglia's ''[[Sexual Personae]]'' was rejected by at least seven different publishers before it was published by [[Yale University Press]], whereuponwhere it became a best seller, reaching seventh place on the paperback best-seller list, a rare accomplishment for a scholarly book.<ref name="time-1992-01-13" /> 'Paglia called it her "prison book", commenting, "I felt like [[Miguel de Cervantes|Cervantes]], [[Jean Genet|Genet]]. It took all the resources of being [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] to cut myself off and sit in my cell."<ref name=Showalter /> ''Sexual Personae'' has been called an "energetic, [[Sigmund Freud|Freud]]-friendly reading of [[Western art]]", one that seemed "[[heresy|heretical]] and perverse", at the height of [[political correctness]]; according to Daniel Nester, its characterization of "[[William Blake]] as the British [[Marquis de Sade]] or [[Walt Whitman]] and [[Emily Dickinson]] as 'self-ruling [[hermaphrodite]]s who cannot mate' still pricks up many an English major's ears".<ref name="Nester">{{cite web | first = Daniel | last = Nester | author-link = Daniel Nester | title = An interview with Camille Paglia | url = http://www.bookslut.com/features/2005_04_005030.php | website = bookslut.com | publisher = [[Jessa Crispin|Bookslut]] | date = April 2005 | access-date = June 28, 2012 | archive-date = May 10, 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120510061035/http://www.bookslut.com/features/2005_04_005030.php | url-status = dead }}</ref>
 
In the book, Paglia argues that [[human nature]] has an inherently dangerous [[Apollonian and Dionysian|Dionysian]] or [[chthonic]] aspect, especially in regard to [[human sexuality|sexuality]].<ref name="news-1990-12-09">{{Cite news |first= Karen |last= Romano |title= Camille Paglia's 'Sexual Personae' provokes amusement, outrage |newspaper= [[Boca Raton News|The News]] |publisher= [[Knight-Ridder]] |location= Boca Raton, Florida |date= December 9, 1990 |url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KNcPAAAAIBAJ&pg=5043%2C5354257 }}{{Dead link|date=October 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Culture and civilization are created by men and represent an attempt to contain that force.<ref name = "news-1990-12-09" /> Women are powerful, too, but as natural forces, and both marriage and religion are means to contain chaotic forces.<ref name="time-1992-01-13" /> A best seller, it was described by [[Terry Teachout]] in a ''[[The New York Times|New York Times]]'' book review as being both "intellectually stimulating" and "exasperating".<ref>{{cite news |first=Terry |last=Teachout|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/22/books/siding-with-the-men.html|title=Siding With the Men |newspaper=The New York Times |location=New York City|date= July 22, 1990|access-date=October 4, 2018 }}</ref> ''Sexual Personae'' received critical reviews from numerous feminist scholars.<ref>''See the following'':
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* {{Cite journal | last = Simons | first = Judy | title = Book Reviews: ''Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson'' by Camille Paglia | journal = [[The Review of English Studies]] | volume = 45 | issue = 179 | pages = 451–452 | publisher = [[Oxford University Press]] | doi = 10.1093/res/XLV.179.451 | jstor = 518881 | date = August 1994 }}</ref> [[Anthony Burgess]] described ''Sexual Personae'' as "a fine disturbing book" that "seeks to attack the reader's emotions as well as his or her prejudices".<ref>{{cite news | last= Burgess | first = Anthony | author-link = Anthony Burgess |date= April 27, 1990 | title= Creatures of decadent light and violent darkness: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson |newspaper= [[The Independent]] | publisher=Independent Print Ltd.| location = London, England| page = 19 }}</ref>
 
=== ''Sex, Art and American Culture'' (1992) ===
{{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?61135-1/sex-art-american-culture Presentation by Paglia on ''Sex, Art and American Culture'', October 26, 1994], [[C-SPAN]]}}
''Sex, Art and American Culture: Essays'' (1992) is a collection of short pieces, many published previously as editorials or reviews, and some transcripts of interviews.<ref name="eagle-1992-12-20"/> The essays cover such subjects as [[Madonna]], [[Elizabeth Taylor]], rock music, [[Robert Mapplethorpe]], the [[Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination]], rape, [[Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder|bodybuilding]], [[Marlon Brando]], [[Drag (clothing)|drag]], [[Milton Kessler]], and [[academia]]. It made [[The New York Times bestseller list|''The New York Times'' bestseller list]] for paperbacks.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/10/books/paperback-best-sellers-january-10-1993.html |title=Paperback Best Sellers | work=The New York Times | date= January 10, 1993}}</ref>
 
=== ''Vamps and Tramps'' (1994) ===
''Vamps and Tramps: New Essays'' (1994) is a collection of 42 short articles and a long essay, "No Law in the Arena: a Pagan Theory of Sexuality". It also contains a collection of cartoons from newspapers about Paglia. Writing for ''The New York Times'', Wendy Steiner wrote "Comic, camp, outspoken, Ms. Paglia throws an absurdist shoe into the ponderous wheels of [[academia]]".<ref>{{cite news | first = Wendy | last = Steiner | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/20/books/advertisements-for-themselves.html | title = Advertisements for Themselves | newspaper =[[The New York Times]]|location=New York City|date = November 20, 1994 |access-date=October 4, 2018}}</ref> [[Michiko Kakutani]], also writing for ''The New York Times'', wrote: "Her writings on education&nbsp;... are highly persuasive, just as some of her essays on the perils of regulating pornography and the puritanical excesses of the women's movement radiate a fierce common sense&nbsp;... Unfortunately, Ms. Paglia has a way of undermining her more interesting arguments with flip, hyperbolic declarations".<ref>{{cite news | first = Michiko | last = Kakutani | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/15/books/books-of-the-times-the-rise-of-a-self-proclaimed-phenomenon.html | title = The Rise of a Self-Proclaimed Phenomenon | newspaper = [[The New York Times]] |location=New York City|date = November 15, 1994|access-date=October 4, 2018}}</ref>▼
 
▲''Vamps and Tramps: New Essays'' (1994) is a collection of 42 short articles and a long essay, "No Law in the Arena: a Pagan Theory of Sexuality". It also contains a collection of cartoons from newspapers about Paglia. Writing for ''The New York Times'', Wendy Steiner wrote "Comic, camp, outspoken, Ms. Paglia throws an absurdist shoe into the ponderous wheels of [[academia]]".<ref>{{cite news | first = Wendy | last = Steiner | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/20/books/advertisements-for-themselves.html | title = Advertisements for Themselves | newspaper =[[The New York Times]]|location=New York City|date = November 20, 1994 |access-date=October 4, 2018}}</ref> [[Michiko Kakutani]], also writing for ''The New York Times'', wrote: "Her writings on education&nbsp;... are highly persuasive, just as some of her essays on the perils of regulating pornography and the puritanical excesses of the women's movement radiate a fierce common sense&nbsp;... Unfortunately, Ms. Paglia has a way of undermining her more interesting arguments with flip, hyperbolic declarations".<ref>{{cite news | first = Michiko | last = Kakutani | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/15/books/books-of-the-times-the-rise-of-a-self-proclaimed-phenomenon.html | title = The Rise of a Self-Proclaimed Phenomenon | newspaper = [[The New York Times]] |location=New York City|date = November 15, 1994|access-date=October 4, 2018}}</ref>
 
=== The Birds ===▼
 
▲=== ''The Birds'' ===
In 1998, in commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the release of [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s film ''[[The Birds (film)|The Birds]]'', the [[British Film Institute]] commissioned Paglia to write a book about the film. The book interprets the film as "in the main line of British Romanticism descending from the raw nature-tableaux and sinister femme-fatales of [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge|Coleridge]]".<ref>{{cite book|first=John P.|last=McCombe|chapter=The Birds and Hitchcock's Hyper-Romantic Vision|editor1-first=Marshall|editor1-last=Deutelbaum|editor2-first=Leland A.|editor2-last=Poague|title=A Hitchcock Reader|publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons]]|location=Hoboken, New Jersey|year= 2009|isbn=978-1405155571|page=266}}</ref> Paglia uses a [[psychoanalytic]] framework to interpret the film as portraying "a release of primitive forces of sex and appetite that have been subdued but never fully tamed".<ref>McCombe p.267</ref>
 
=== ''Break, Blow, Burn'' (2005) ===
''Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems'' (2005) is a collection of 43 short selections of verse with an accompanying essay by Paglia.<ref name="nyt-2005-03-27">▼
 
▲''Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems'' (2005) is a collection of 43 short selections of verse with an accompanying essay by Paglia.<ref name="nyt-2005-03-27">
{{Cite news
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}}</ref> The collection is oriented primarily to those unfamiliar with the works.<ref name="nyt-2005-03-27"/> [[Clive James]] wrote that Paglia tends to focus on American works as it moves from [[Shakespeare]] forward through time, with [[Yeats]], following [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge|Coleridge]], as the last European discussed,<ref name="nyt-2005-03-27"/> but emphasized her range of sympathy and her ability to juxtapose and unite distinct art forms in her analysis.<ref name="nyt-2005-03-27"/>
 
=== ''Glittering Images'' (2012) ===
{{Main|Glittering Images}}
''[[Glittering Images|Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars]]'' (2012) is a series of essays about notable works of art from ancient to modern times, published in October 2012.<ref name="random house">[http://www.randomhouse.com/book/126100/glittering-images-by-camille-paglia.html Book description] on Random House website.</ref> Writer John Adams of ''[[The New York Times Book Review]]'' was skeptical of the book, accusing it of being "so agenda driven and so riddled with polemic asides that its potential to persuade is forever being compromised".<ref name=on-art>{{cite news|last=Adams|first=John|title=Paglia on Art|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/books/review/glittering-images-by-camille-paglia.html|date=November 30, 2012|work=The New York Times|access-date=July 7, 2014}}</ref> Gary Rosen of ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', however, praised the book's "impressive range" and accessibility to readers.<ref name=WSJ1>{{cite news|last=Rosen|first=Gary|title=The Pagan Aesthetic|url=https://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10000872396390443675404578058504002593338|work=The Wall Street Journal|date=October 16, 2012|access-date=February 7, 2014}}</ref>
 
=== ''Free Women, Free Men'' (2017) ===
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{{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?425137-2/camille-paglia-discusses-free-women-free-men Presentation by Paglia on ''Free Women, Free Men'', March 20, 2017], [[C-SPAN]]}}
Paglia's ''[[Free Women, Free Men|Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, and Feminism]]'' wasis publisheda byseries Pantheonof inessays 2017from 1990 onward.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/126099/free-women-free-men-by-camille-paglia/9780375424779/ |title=Free Women, Free Men |access-date=March 15, 2017}}</ref> It is a series of essays from 1990 onward. [[Dwight Garner (critic)|Dwight Garner]] in ''The New York Times'' wrote Paglia's essays address two main targets: modern feminism, which, Paglia writes, "has become a catchall vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses," and modern American universities, of which she asks, "How is it possible that today's academic left has supported rather than protested campus speech codes as well as the grotesque surveillance and overregulation of student life?"<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/23/books/review-camille-paglia-free-women-free-men.html|title=From Camille Paglia, 'Free Women, Free Men' and No Sacred Cows|last=Garner|first=Dwight|date=March 23, 2017|work=The New York Times|access-date=May 30, 2017|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
 
=== Provocations ===▼
 
▲=== ''Provocations'' (2018) ===
Paglia's fourth essay collection, ''Provocations: Collected Essays on Art, Feminism, Politics, Sex, and Education'', was published by [[Pantheon Books|Pantheon]] on October 9, 2018.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Paglia|first=Camille|url=|title=Provocations: collected essays|date=2018|publisher=Pantheon Books |isbn=978-1-5247-4689-6|language=English|oclc=1019883092}}</ref>
 
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* ''[[Sexual Personae|Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson]]'' (1990) {{ISBN|0-679-73579-8}}
* ''Sex, Art and American Culture: Essays'' (1992) {{ISBN|0-679-74101-1}}
* ''[[Glennda and Camille Do Downtown]]'' (1993), documentary film
* ''Vamps and Tramps: New Essays'' (1994) {{ISBN|0-679-75120-3}}
* ''The Birds'' ([[British Film Institute|BFI Film Classics]]) (1998) {{ISBN|0-851-70651-7}}
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** [https://www.c-span.org/video/?177475-1/depth-camille-paglia ''In Depth'' interview with Paglia, August 3, 2003]
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* Russell Walter (2023). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eyKoUi4obw "Camille Paglia on Masculinity & Femininity"]
* Lyons, Donald (March 2024)[https://newcriterion.com/issues/1992/10/sex-the-sixties-camille-paglia . Sex, the Sixties & Camille Paglia]. ''The New Criterion'', Vol. 42, No. 7.
 
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