Vamps & Tramps New Essays

by PAGLIA, CAMILLE

• ISBN13: 9780679751205
• ISBN10: 0679751203
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-10-11
• Publisher: Vintage

Summary

The bestselling author of Sexual Personae and Sex, Art, and American Culture is back with a fiery new collection of essays on everything from art and celebrity to gay activism, Lorena Bobbitt to Bill and Hillary. These essays have never appeared in book form, and many will be appearing in print for the first time.

Author Biography

Camille Paglia is the University Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. A regular contributor to Salon.com, she is the author of Glittering Images; Break, Blow, Burn; Sexual Personae; Sex, Art, and American Culture; and Vamps & Tramps.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Penis Unsheathed	p. 3
No Law in the Arena: a Pagan Theory of Sexuality	p. 19
Introduction: The Horses of Passion	p. 19
Sex Crime: Rape	p. 24
Sex War: Abortion, Battering, Sexual Harassment	p. 38
Sex Power: Prostitution, Stripping, Pornography	p. 56
Rebel Love: Homosexuality	p. 67
Conclusion: Citizens of the Empire	p. 92
The Nursery-School Campus: The Corrupting of the Humanities in the U.S.	p. 97
Gay Stalinism	p. 103
The Return of Carry Nation: Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin	p. 107
The New Sexism: Liberating Art and Beauty	p. 113
An Open Letter to the Students of Harvard	p. 117
On Censorship	p. 122
Woody Allen Agonistes	p. 129
Our Tabloid Princess: Amy Fisher	p. 133
The Female Lenny Bruce: Sandra Bernhard	p. 137
Brooklyn Nefertiti: Barbara Streisand	p. 141
Lolita Unclothed	p. 146
Diana Regina	p. 163
Television and the Clintons	p. 172
Kind of a Bitch: Why I Like Hillary Clinton	p. 176
Hillary in the Spotlight	p. 181
Laying the Ghost of Anita Hill: Bill Clinton and Paula Jones	p. 188
Mona Lisa in Motion: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis	p. 191
The Saint	p. 197
My Brothers in Crime: Benderson, Jarratt, Feld, Fessenden	p. 201
Dr. Paglia: Part 1 of Female Misbehavior, A Four-Part Documentary by Monika Treut	p. 234
Sex War: A Short Film by Luca Babini	p. 250
Glennda and Camille Do Downtown	p. 277
Gypsy Tigress: Carmen	p. 307
Alice as Epic Hero	p. 312
Love Poetry	p. 317
Tournament of Modern Personae: D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love	p. 328
Breviary of the Nude: Kenneth Clark's The Nude	p. 339
The Artistic Dynamics of "Revival"	p. 341
Sontag, Bloody Sontag	p. 344
The Star as Sacred Monster: David Shipman's Judy Garland: The Secret Life of an American Legend	p. 363
Madonna in the Shallows: Madonna's Sex	p. 367
Madonna as Gauguin: Mark Bego's Madonna: Blonde Ambition	p. 370
Tyranny of the Technocrats: John Ralston Saul's Voltaire's Bastards	p. 375
A Woman of the Century: Germaine Greer's The Change	p. 379
Scholar, Aesthete, Activist: Edward Said's Culture and Imperialism	p. 382
The Corpse of Fashion: Fred Davis's Fashion, Culture, and Identity	p. 387
Cry of the Invisible Men: Warren Farrell's The Myth of Male Power	p. 391
Ask Camille Paglia: Advice for the Lovelorn, Among Others	p. 397
Feminist Fatale	p. 410
Bobbitt Versus Bobbitt	p. 419
Diary: Sex, Art, and Selling	p. 421
Extracts	p. 425
App. Cartoon Personae	p. 439
App. A Media Chronicle	p. 457
Index	p. 519
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