Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

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Since the stunning success of her scholarly tour de force Sexual Personas, Camille Paglia has attracted controversy the way a mag- net draws iron filings. She's been called brilliant, outrageous, "the intellectual pin-up of the 90s," an anti-feminist feminist, an Italian Joan Rivers, an academic rottweiler, and "the bravest and most original critic of our day." Paglia lives up to all of her reputations in this ferociously intelligent new volume of essays on topics, that range from Madonna to Anita Hill, date rape to MTV. Whether she's denouncing the women's movement's descent into Puritan- ism, or describing a fraternity party as "Testosterone Flats," or nominating the late Robert Mapplethorpe as today's pagan priest of art, Paglia in Sex, Art, and American Culture is never anything less than enlightening, playful, and unabashedly entertaining as she addresses the hottest issues in our ongoing cultural debate. ISBN:9780679741015