Who is Camille Paglia?
Camille Paglia, an internationally known social critic and author, is noted for her focus on gender issues, media and art. Her books include Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, (1992) and Vamps and Tramps: New Essays. A good introduction to Paglia is at fluxeuropa. Paglia is a professor of Humanities in Philadelphia. An excerpt from Sexual Personae is available online. I dont know anything about Irma Kurtz. Do you? She is a agony aunt who writes columns for cosmo hmm. I was surfing for more Camille Paglia information and I found a speech by Camille at MIT on Crisis in the American Universities. From what I can tell currently Paglia is a feminist with a difference (italics indicating lack of credibility in my statements). Traditional feminists have eschewed feminity, asking women to stand up against the stereotype of the fairer sex. Paglia seems to prefer women retain their feminity. Paglia claims Naomi Woolf and other contemporary feminists have railed
