
	Where results make sense

Topic: Sexual Personae

Related Topics

Camile Paglia

Emily Dickinson

Sexual morality

The Faerie Queene

Henry James

Edmund Spenser

Richard Bentley

Dionysus

Athenian Empire

William Shakespeare

Maurice Wilkins

Palliative care

Diana, Princess of Wales

Felix Rodriguez

Telenovela

	Camille Paglia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The two-volume manuscript of Sexual Personae was completed in February 1981 and then rejected by seven publishers and five agents throughout the 1980s before its final acceptance by Ellen Graham for Yale University Press in 1985.
		After the release of Sexual Personae on February 15, 1990, the book received little publicity from its publisher, as was typical of university presses at the time, but it sold well for months, prompting Yale University Press to send it into a second printing by November 1990.
		Whereas the 24 chapters of Sexual Personae looked at the study of decadence in art and culture from Egyptian history to the late 19th century, Sex, Art, and American Culture (1992), exposed readers to Paglia's views on contemporary figures such as Madonna ("the future of feminism"), Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Anita Hill.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Camile_Paglia (6097 words)

	Paglia
		Its project is an interpretation of Western artistic tradition in terms of sexual battle, and as such - in its apparent ratification of essential sexual binaries - it appeared to go against the prevailing feminist ideas of gender construction.
		Hooper diagnoses the sexual incompleteness of Protestantism and remedies it by automedication.
		Hawthorne illustrates the sexual problematics of the visual when Hester is brought before the multitude: "The unhappy culprit sustained herself as best a woman might, under the heavy weight of a thousand unrelenting eyes, all fastened upon her, and concentred at her bosom.
	social.chass.ncsu.edu /wyrick/debclass/paglia.htm (2324 words)

	Pornosophic Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Camille Paglia in her book Sexual Personae rightly says, “Sexuality and eroticism are the intricate intersection of nature and culture” (Vintage, NY 1991).
		One fruit of the Sexual revolution which has swept the west, besides ubiquitous pornography and the spread of virulent and often lethal diseases, is the phenomenon of open homosexuality which mobilized early into a militant political and social force which very few politicians today dare to oppose.
		When women are used and exploited sexually and then thrown away as useless objects in our pornosophic society, sometimes abandoned to grow old or poor alone --- all of which is rightly abhorred by the Church --- feminism is right to deplore it and even to want it punished.
	www.pornnomore.com /SteveHandArticle.htm (1530 words)

	Amazon.ca: Sexual Personae: Art & Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		From this psychosexual premise, Paglia develops her central thesis: that human sexuality is crucially central to High Culture, that human sexuality inevitably involves power relationships, and that this "gigantic fact" leads inevitably to portrayals in the Arts of relationships characterized by dominance and submission.
		While the first half of "Sexual Personae" is highly entertaining, the second half of the book labors under (what appears to be) the logical inconsistency of Paglia's "hermaphrodite" concept.
		"Sexual Personae" is quirky, brilliant, engaging and encyclopedic: a tour de force of erudition.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0679735798 (1201 words)

	Other Than Myself, The Power of Virtual Personae
		Ironically, sexual rampancy, promiscuity and pornography figure among the top of the list of things many people would think of if asked why things are as obviously broken as they are.
		But it is consumerism, the misguided elements of organized religion that condemn sexuality and the hideous devaluation of human life that have brought us to this sorry place.
		By permitting people -- as Virtual Personae -- to set aside the curtailments of self that they have had to impose on themselves to participate in society, and that have been imposed upon them, we will achieve a "reset" effect.
	profitlabinc.com /THINK (971 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Vamps & Tramps, by Camille Paglia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Camille Paglia, the self-appointed enfant terrible of the academy, feminism, and the art world, is the author of Sexual Personae, a 700-page scholarly work which in 1990 became a surprise best-seller.
		Paglia describes her new collection, Vamps and Tramps, as a "multimedia book, in the 60's style of Marshall McLuhan," which is a fancy way of saying that nothing was left on the cutting-room floor.
		...Sexual Personae argued that there are passionate destructive forces underlying even the most bourgeois works of art...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V99I2P70-1.htm (2249 words)

	Gay Today at Badpuppy
		Sexual Personae again was virtually anonymous in many ways.
		Sexual Personae is a 700-page book not about biology but about the fabrications and the artifaces of art.
		I began to realize that, in fact, the story of men is not the story of male freedom, it is the story of their servitude to woman's power and that there are only two groups of men who have escaped woman's power, gay men, OK, and heterosexual men in that brief (teen) period.
	gaytoday.badpuppy.com /garchive/interview/033197in.htm (3974 words)

	Thomas Hibbs on National Review Online
		As is clear from the broad sweep of Sexual Personae, which ranges from Greek art to Emily Dickinson, Paglia has a penchant for precisely the sort of writing and intellectual investigation that postmodernism eschews, grand narratives and comprehensive myths.
		In a model that Paglia follows throughout Sexual Personae, Nietzsche divides human culture into the Dionysian — the chaotic, orgiastic, violence at the heart of being — and the Apollinian — the human impulse to give order and structure to the chaos through art and reason.
		Whatever may be the difficulties with her specific account of the origins or art, religion, and civilization, we should be grateful that she continues — bluntly, irreverently, passionately — to take education seriously and to insist that Americans from every background and at every educational and economic level should too.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment-hibbs081203.asp (1367 words)

	1.01: Scream of Consciousness
		A media creature through and through, Paglia has been cavorting in the limelight of network TV and sold-out lectures ever since her 1991 book, Sexual Personae (the first of two volumes), poked the eye of both conservatives and liberals.
		When I was in England earlier this summer for the release of the Penguin paperback of Sexual Personae, I was having fits because of no TV there.
		Between Volume 1 and the forthcoming Volume 2 of Sexual Personae is the arrival of mass media.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/1.01/paglia_pr.html (2797 words)

	Camile Paglia Article 3-29-95 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		When Camille Paglia hit the scene in 1990 with the publication of her first book, Sexual Personae, the feminist movement was completely comatose.
		The charges that she was a charlatan or a flash in the pan have been put to rest.
		She is still filled with the same energy and vitality that embodied Sexual Personae and her second book, Sex, Art, and American Culture.
	www.umich.edu /~mrev/archives/1995/3-29-95/Paglia.3-29-95.html (661 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson at Epinions.com
		Sexual Personae is not only physically heavy (673 pages), but philosophically weighty as well.
		Steeped in knowledge of Greek mythology, Paglia’s Sexual Personae is in essence a broad theory of Western civilization.
		WhileSexual Personae is limited to literature, visual art, and some historical events, it is nonetheless an impressive theory; Paglia accumulates a massive pile of proof and argues eloquently for her point of view.
	www.epinions.com /content_209520201348 (433 words)

	FLUXEUROPA: CAMILLE PAGLIA
		Paglia was catapulted into media stardom when, following publication of her book, Sexual Personae, in 1992, she achieved fame if not infamy with expressions of her admiration for Madonna, and her involvement in bitter public controversies about 'date rape' and the state of academe.
		Difficult to put into a neat, preconceived, pigeon-hole, she has been accused of being both an anti-feminist and a neoconservative, while claiming, herself, to be a genuine libertarian whose cultural critiques have merely upset the feminist party line and the academic gravy train.
		This innate female power is exercised through beauty and glamour, values denied or rejected by the anti-aesthetic puritanism of contemporary feminists, whom she further provoked by suggesting that women should take some responsibility for their own safety.
	www.fluxeuropa.com /camillepaglia.htm (452 words)

	Amazon.com: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson: Books: Camille Paglia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Some of Paglia's paragraphs are (more or less) "chthonic" mush, an attempt to forcefeed her pet metaphors of sexual neurosis down the throats of younger readers eager for snappy punchlines and all the deferential sloganizing of feckless guru-worship.
		Sexual Personae churns and rumbles with this sort of audacity, shifting breakneck from meticulous, careful scholarship to wild conjecture and enthralling hearsay (often in the same paragraph) without so much as a by-your-leave, transfused with a fluid comedic irony that kept this reader chuckling softly to himself throughout.
		This philosophic maneater knows all too well the sexual persona she has created for herself, the lesbian-vampire renegade academic deploying pungent barbs of wit from her sniper's nest at the University of Arts in Philadelphia.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0300043961?v=glance (2832 words)

	Reason magazine -- February 1995. David Link.
		For the uninitiated, Sexual Personae is Paglia's magnum opus, the first part of which surveyed sexual imagery in art from the beginning of time up to Emily Dickinson.
		She shines in her analysis of the competing personae of Bill Clinton and Hillary, suggesting that Hillary's persona is probably more suited to being commander-in-chief than Bill's.
		In the sexual arena, Paglia argues, "sexual conduct cannot and must not be legislated from above...all intrusion by authority figures into sex is totalitarian." In the absence of physical violence, sex is a force of nature, and legal tinkering is as effective as making gravity a punishable offense.
	www.reason.com /9502/dept.bkLINK.text.shtml (2388 words)

	Mirago : Society: Sexuality
		Camille Paglia's Sexual Personae - An evaluation and summary of this scholar's provocative interpretation of Western Culture and the forces that have shaped it.
		It's Your Call - Making Sexual Decisions - Interactive webpages that are intended to help you make decisions about what's right for you in terms of experiencing and expressing your sexuality for both men and women, of any sexual preference.
		Sexual Wholeness, Inc. - A multifaceted, nonprofit organization that promotes sexual integrity, a positive masculinity and feminity, and passionate intimate relationships through workshops, books, articles, retreats and training.
	www.mirago.com /scripts/dir.aspx?cat=Top/Society/Sexuality (274 words)

	Riding the backlash
		Sexual Personae supposedly analyses sexuality in Western society and the influence of art and culture in constructing a so-called sexual identity.
		Sexual Personae is full of sweeping generalisations -- Paglia evidently believes that they can substitute for a coherent analysis of sexuality in Western culture.
		In Sexual Personae female sexuality is a “dark deep continent” and men are under constant threat of being engulfed and swallowed up by their mothers whenever they have sex.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/1993/119/119p25b.htm (741 words)

	Open Directory - Society: Sexuality: Politics of Sexuality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Gender and Sexuality - Texts which address gender studies/queer studies, with a particular focus upon discussions of sex, gender, sexual identity and sexuality.
		Sexual Offences Laws - Countries - Contains comprehensive information on the legislation of Interpol member states on sexual offences against children.
		Sexual Politics and Bisexuality - Discussion on bisexuals and the meaning of the term "bisexual".
	dmoz.org /Society/Sexuality/Politics_of_Sexuality (849 words)

	CamillePaglia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Paglia came to public attention with the publication of her first book, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, in 1990, when she also began writing about popular culture and feminism in mainstream newspapers and magazines.
		She later remarked: "She was one of the most original, stylish, and articulate sexual personae of the royal House of Warhol.
		Whereas the 24 chapters of Sexual Personae looked at the study of decadence in art and culture from Egyptian history to the late 19th century, Sex, Art, and American Culture, exposed readers to Paglia's views on contemporary figures such as Madonna ("the future of feminism"), Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Anita Hill.
	webpages.charter.net /greatwesterndragon/wiki/CamillePaglia.html (3408 words)

	The Yale Journal of Ethics
		In Sexual Personae, she discusses the competing Puritan and Pagan aspects of Western culture.
		Over time, I realized that there were real biological distinctions, in terms of sexual fate Q that nature profits from male promiscuity where a male distributes his seed over a wide range.
		The only men that are in doubt about their sexual identity are in the Ivy League schools, the professors and faculty as well.
	www.yale.edu /yje/paglia.html (4493 words)

	Istanbul Literature Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Camille Paglia, scholar and cultural commentator, came to public notice in 1990 with the publication of Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson.
		Thus she sets aside the polemics and fireworks that enlivened Sexual Personae and uses only the tools of the New Criticism to unlock literature for the layperson.
		There is nothing or very little of the brave sallying forth that we saw and came to admire in chapter after chapter of Sexual Personae.
	www.ilrmagazine.net /arcritical3.htm (1651 words)

	Sexual Personae: Art & Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (Vintage) by Vintage
		Anyone who gets to the part about the "gigantic sexual molecule with a female center" and still gives the book a bad review has no soul.
		This book is not worth the paper it was written on, nor the ink it was typed with, unless one is an extremely narrow-minded misogynist.
		From ancient Egypt through the nineteenth century, Sexual Personae explores the provocative connections between art and pagan ritual; between Emily Dickinson and the Marquis de Sade; between Lord Byron and Elvis Presley.
	www.naturalskincare.ws /stuff-0679735798.html (1434 words)

	Warrior for the word - Salon
		Camille Paglia's first major work since "Sexual Personae," the 1990 bestseller that cracked a bullwhip over the heads of dogmatic feminists and a p.c.
		I felt it was important that I submerge myself because in the four-year period from "Sexual Personae" to "Vamps & Tramps" in the early '90s I had as much publicity as any person could ever want.
		But when "Sexual Personae" started to get publicity, which was almost a year later after it was published, it started to get viciously attacked.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/int/2005/04/07/paglia/index.html (1309 words)

	Professor Paglia: Intellectual provocateur \| BBC World Service
		She is author of Sexual Personae, Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, a dialogue on religion, sexuality, art and nature.
		At school she devoted herself to study and by the time she reached high school her passion for the aviatrix Amelia Earheart was the subject of articles.
		In addition to teaching she also worked on her book, Sexual Personae, an extension of her 1960s dissertation, which was finally published in February 1990.
	www.bbc.co.uk /worldservice/people/highlights/001012_paglia.shtml (1370 words)

	Salon Arts & Entertainment \| The Savage id
		So does the work of Camille Paglia, whose love of Hitchcock informed her controversial book "Sexual Personae" and prompted her to write a study of "The Birds" for the British Film Institute.
		I feel also that Hitchcock's vision is so extensive, so broad, that it takes in everything, from architecture to politics to sexuality -- but sexuality in particular, with its weird mixture of beauty and desire and horror and the macabre.
		I end up showing "Persona" simply because it's my favorite film and it devastated me when I saw it in my senior year of college at its American release.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/feature/1999/08/13/hitchcock_paglia/index.html?CP=SAL&DN=110 (1427 words)

	Break, Blow, Burn, by Camille Paglia
		The publication of Camille Paglia’s Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson in 1990 announced the arrival of a new intellectual voice.
		I struggled for so long to get published (my first book, Sexual Personae, was rejected by seven publishers and not printed until I was 43) that I don't think of writing as a financial enterprise.
		My chapter on Shelley in Sexual Personae identifies him as an Apollonian idealist and places him in the artistic line of ancient Greek sculptors, with their highly cinematic, sharp-contoured images.
	www.arlindo-correia.com /camille_paglia_1.html (2339 words)

	Le Sabot Post-Moderne: Thomas Hobbes meets Dr. Ruth
		My theory is that whenever sexual freedom is sought or achieved, sadomasochism will not be far behind.
		I read part of Sexual Personae before I became a commited Christian again, and the other part afterward.
		Her idea of the swamp of decay and regeneration fits in Romans 8:19-22 and the theme of creation subjected to decay and groaning in corruption.
	www.postmodernclog.com /archives/000857.html (662 words)

	Paglia
		She claims that most women, including herself, become feminists because they seek sexual ecstasy: "[T]he gleaming secret, the unspoken pulse, of feminist commitment is the orgasm.
		If all women agreed with Wolf that they were motivated chiefly by the need to satisfy bodily desires, Paglia would be justified in her claim that the achievements of western culture are exclusively male achievements.
		Yet in theory I agree with Paglia; and I would amend her by suggesting that the culture of the Middle Ages is not the least of what a well-founded humanist needs to know.
	members.aol.com /mcnelis/AEstel1/Potkay1.html (5232 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)