A rack of varied clothing was provided for a photo shoot with Steve Poole for the Daily Mail in London in January 1994. Paglia zeroed right in on a plush purple-velvet Moschino jacket adorned with gold buttons and cut in a piratical eighteenth-century style. It took a ship’s crew to get her in and out of those black thigh-high cavalier boots. (© Steven Poole)
Another photograph from the shoot with Steve Poole for the Daily Mail in London in January 1994. The clever crew turned a black shawl into a seaweed-streaming rock.
(© Steven Poole)
Drawings by John Callahan, published in 1993 in Willamette Week, an alternative newspaper in Portland, Oregon. Gift of the artist.
(© by John Callahan. Reprinted by permission.)
“America’s Most Influential Women: 200 Legends, Leaders, and Trailblazers,” Vanity Fair, November 1998. Vanity Fair invited Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, and Paglia to pose together for Annie Leibovitz. Friedan and Paglia agreed, but Steinem refused, so the magazine asked the great Robert Risko to do a group caricature. Headline: “REVOLUTIONARY.” Caption: “Friedan, Steinem, and Paglia are an influential triumvirate—just don’t put them in the same room.”
(Robert Risko)
“Attack of the 50-Foot Lesbian: Camille Paglia reigns as America’s most controversial, intellectual, and intimidating gay woman,” cover story, The Advocate, October 18, 1994.
(© 1994 Here Publishing. All rights reserved.)
“Paglia 101: Confessions of a Campus Radical,” cover story, Girlfriends, September 2000. Tagline: “Nobody is going to tell me I’m homophobic, okay? I will kick their ass!” Previously published in Girlfriends magazine. Reproduced with the permission of Diane Anderson-Minshall and Heather Findlay.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
As always, my deepest thanks go to LuAnn Walther, who has been my editor since 1990, when she acquired the paperback rights for my first book, Sexual Personae, for Vintage Books. It was her bold idea to separate the most representative of my articles and lectures on sex, gender, and feminism from the mass of my other writings on culture and society. (Material since my last essay collection in 1994 will appear in a future volume.) I am profoundly grateful for her decades of unflagging support, understanding, and advice.
Catherine Tung smoothly coordinated all in-house aspects of the intense preparation of this book. Her admirable precision and tireless help, particularly during the thorny permissions phase, were absolutely indispensable to the timely completion of this project. Altie Karper, Cat Courtade, and Maria Massey oversaw the production process with superb attention to detail. It is a distinct privilege to be a beneficiary of Michael Lionstar’s wonderful author photos. For many years now, I have been most fortunate to enjoy the master strategies and witty conversation of two ace publicists at Knopf Doubleday, Josefine Taylor Kals at Pantheon and David Archer at Vintage.
My heartfelt gratitude goes to the visionary editors who commissioned many of the controversial pieces in this book, when it was often risky for them to do so. Leading the list are Herbert Golder and Nicholas Poburko at Arion; David Shipley, then at The New York Times; Max Boot, then at The Wall Street Journal; Alexander Kafka at The Chronicle of Higher Education; Ryan Sager, then at Time; and David Daley, then at Salon.com.
My agent, Lynn Nesbit, has been a near-oracular source of advice and guidance for a quarter century now. Dorothy Vincent at Janklow & Nesbit Associates remains a paragon of wise counsel. Finally, fervent thanks are due to my friends, allies, and family members (in alphabetical order) who have been so loyal and supportive over the decades: Gunter Axt, Glenn Belverio, Robert Caserio, Lisa Chedekel, Kent Christensen, John DeWitt, Matt Drudge, Kristoffer Jacobson, Ann Jamison, Mitchell Kunkes, Kristen Lippincott, Alison Maddex, Lucien Maddex, Lenora Paglia, Christina Hoff Sommers, and Francesca Stanfill.
INDEX
Page references in italics refer to illustrations.
abortion, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
Abzug, Bella, ref1, ref2
administrators, campus, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12
Aeschylus, ref1
Age-21 law, ref1, ref2
Aguilera, Christina, ref1
AIDS, ref1, ref2, ref3
Akhenaten, ref1, ref2, ref3
Albany, State University of New York at, ref1, ref2
Allen, Tim, ref1
Andress, Ursula, ref1
anorexia, ref1, ref2
Anthony, Susan B., ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Antin, Eleanor, ref1
Aristophanes, ref1
Aristotle, ref1
Asher, Jane, ref1
athletics. See sports
Augustine, Saint, ref1
Austen, Jane, ref1, ref2
Avedon, Richard, ref1
Bach, Johann Sebastian, ref1
Bachelet, Pierre, ref1
Bailey, David, ref1, ref2
Bankhead, Tallulah, ref1, ref2
Bara, Theda, ref1
Barrymore, Drew, ref1
Baudelaire, Charles, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
BDSM. See sadomasochism
Beardsley, Aubrey, ref1
Beatles, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Beauvoir, Simone de, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Bechdel, Alison, ref1
Beijing. See United Nations Conference on Women
Bellini, Giovanni, ref1
Benatar, Pat, ref1, ref2
Bennington College, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Berkeley, University of California at, ref1, ref2, ref3
Beuys, Joseph, ref1
Beverly Hillbillies, The, ref1
Beyoncé, ref1, ref2
bibelots, porcelain, ref1
Binghamton, State University of New York at. See Harpur College
Black, Cilla, ref1
Blahnik, Manolo, ref1
Blake, William, ref1, ref2, ref3
Bloom, Harold, ref1, ref2
Bogarde, Dirk, ref1
Botticelli, Sandro, ref1, ref2
Bourdieu, Pierre, ref1
Bourke-White, Margaret, ref1, ref2
Bow, Clara, ref1
Bowie, David, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Boxer, Barbara, ref1
Boyd, Pattie, ref1
Brahms, Johannes, ref1
Brecht, Bertolt, ref1
Bronte, Charlotte, ref1
Bronte, Emily, ref1
Brooks, Mel, ref1
Brown, Helen Gurley, ref1
Brown, Norman O., ref1
Brown, Rita Mae, ref1, ref2
Brown University, ref1, ref2, ref3
Bruce, Lenny, ref1
Buck, Pearl S., ref1
Buñuel, Luis, ref1
Burchill, Julie, ref1
bureaucracy. See administrators, campus
Butler, Judith, ref1, ref2, ref3
Campbell, Joseph, ref1
Candomblé, ref1
capitalism, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11
Capp, Al, ref1
Carlisle, Belinda, ref1
Carlson, Katherine, ref1
Carter, Dixie, ref1
Cavani, Liliana, ref1, ref2
Chanel, Coco, ref1
Charlie’s Angels, ref1
Cher, ref1
Chisolm, Shirley, ref1
Choo, Jimmy, ref1
Chopin, Frédéric, ref1
Christie, Julie, ref1
Cixous, Hélène, ref1, ref2, ref3. See also poststructuralism
Clark, Kenneth, ref1, ref2
Clinton, Bill, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Clinton, Hillary, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Cohen, Andy, ref1
Colbert, Claudette, ref1
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, ref1, ref2
Collins, Gail, ref1
Columbia University, ref1, ref2
Coughlin, Deborah, ref1, ref2
Coulter, Ann, ref1
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sp; Crane, Hart, ref1
Croft, Lara, ref1
Crowley, Monica, ref1
Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders, ref1
Darwin, Charles, ref1
date rape. See rape
Davis, Bette, ref1
Day, Doris, ref1, ref2, ref3
DeBarge, Flotilla, ref1
Debussy, Claude, ref1
Delius, Frederick, ref1
De Man, Paul, ref1. See also poststructuralism
DeMille, Cecil B., ref1
Deneuve, Catherine, ref1
Diana, Princess of Wales, ref1
Dickinson, Emily, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Didrikson, Babe, ref1
Dietrich, Marlene, ref1, ref2
Disney, Walt, ref1
Dixon, Willie, ref1
Dole, Elizabeth, ref1, ref2
Dowd, Maureen, ref1, ref2
Dworkin, Andrea, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Dylan, Bob, ref1
Earhart, Amelia, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Eliot, George, ref1
Eliot, T. S., ref1
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, ref1
Euripides, ref1, ref2
Faithfull, Marianne, ref1
Faludi, Susan, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Fassbinder, Rainer Werner, ref1
Faulkner, William, ref1
Feinstein, Dianne, ref1, ref2, ref3
Ferber, Edna, ref1
Ferenczi, Sándor, ref1, ref2, ref3
Ferraro, Geraldine, ref1, ref2
Fiedler, Leslie, ref1
Fifth Dimension, ref1
Fiorina, Carly, ref1
Flax, Jane, ref1
Fontenrose, Joseph, ref1
football, ref1, ref2, ref3
Foucault, Michel, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15
Franco, James, ref1
Frazer, James George, ref1
Free Speech Movement, ref1, ref2, ref3
French, Marilyn, ref1
Freud, Sigmund, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12
Friedan, Betty, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
Fulani, Lenora, ref1
furniture, zebra Naugahyde, ref1
Fuss, Diana, ref1
Gaga, Lady, ref1
Gallop, Jane, ref1
Gardner, Ava, ref1
Gaultier, Jean Paul, ref1
Gilbert, Sandra, ref1, ref2
Gilligan, Carol, ref1, ref2
Gimbutas, Marija, ref1
Ginsberg, Allen, ref1
gizzards, turkey, ref1
Goffman, Erving, ref1
Grable, Betty, ref1
Graham, Ellen, ref1
Graves, Robert, ref1
Gray, John, ref1
Green, John D., ref1
Greer, Germaine, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Gubar, Susan, ref1, ref2
Haley, Bill, ref1
hams, scorched, ref1
Harlem Renaissance, ref1
Harlow, Jean, ref1, ref2
Harpur College, ref1
Harrington, Anna Short, ref1
Harrison, Jane, ref1, ref2, ref3
Harry, Deborah, ref1
Hartman, Geoffrey, ref1
Harvard University, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Harvey, Laurence, ref1
Hauser, Arnold, ref1
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, ref1, ref2
Hedren, Tippi, ref1
Hefner, Hugh, ref1
Heilbrun, Carolyn, ref1, ref2
Hellman, Lillian, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Hemingway, Ernest, ref1
Hepburn, Katharine, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Heracleitus, ref1
Herrmann, Bernard, ref1
Hill, Anita, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
Hitchcock, Alfred, ref1, ref2
Hobbes, Thomas, ref1
Hollander, Xaviera, ref1
Homer, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Hopkins, Miriam, ref1
Horney, Karen, ref1
Huysmans, Joris-Karl, ref1
Hynde, Chrissie, ref1
Independent Women’s Forum, ref1
Ingraham, Laura, ref1
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique, ref1
Irigaray, Luce, ref1, ref2
Isherwood, Christopher, ref1
Jack the Ripper, ref1
James, E. L., ref1
Johns Hopkins University, ref1
Johnston, Jill, ref1
Jolson, Al, ref1
Jones, Grace, ref1
Jones, Paula, ref1, ref2
Jordan, Reenie, ref1
Joyce, James, ref1
Jung, Carl, ref1
Kafka, Franz, ref1
Kennedy, John F., ref1
Kidman, Nicole, ref1
Kimball, Roger, ref1
King, Billie Jean, ref1
Knight, G. Wilson, ref1
Koop, C. Everett, ref1
Krafft-Ebing, Richard von, ref1
Lacan, Jacques, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9. See also poststructuralism
Lawrence, D. H., ref1
Lenya, Lotte, ref1
Lewinsky, Monica, ref1, ref2, ref3
Limbaugh, Rush, ref1
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, ref1
Lindemann, Danielle J., ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Locke, John, ref1
Lopez, Jennifer, ref1
Louboutin, Christian, ref1
Lucci, Susan, ref1
Luce, Clare Boothe, ref1, ref2
Lulu, ref1
McCarthy, Mary, ref1, ref2, ref3
McDaniel, Hattie, ref1
McElwee, Ross, ref1
MacKinnon, Catharine, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Madonna, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
Malanga, Gerald, ref1
Malkin, Michelle, ref1
Manet, Èdouard, ref1
Manning, Kenneth, ref1
Mansfield, Jayne, ref1
Mapplethorpe, Robert, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Marxism, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ref1, ref2
Matisse, Henri, ref1
Merkel, Angela, ref1
Mew, Charlotte, ref1
Michelangelo, ref1, ref2, ref3
Miles, Sarah, ref1
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, ref1
Miller, Henry, ref1
Millett, Kate, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Mills, Donna, ref1
Mills, Hayley, ref1
Mimieux, Yvette, ref1, ref2
Mississippi, University of, ref1, ref2, ref3
Mitchell, Margaret, ref1, ref2, ref3
Monroe, Marilyn, ref1, ref2
Moore, Henry, ref1
Moorehead, Agnes, ref1
Moran, Caitlin, ref1
Morrison, Jim, ref1, ref2
Mötley Crüe, ref1
Mott, Lucretia, ref1
Ms. (magazine), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Nation, Carry, ref1, ref2, ref3
National Organization for Women, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Navratilova, Martina, ref1
Nefertiti, ref1, ref2, ref3
New Haven Women’s Liberation Rock Band, ref1, ref2
Newmahr, Staci, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Newton, Helmut, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Nietzsche, Friedrich, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Obama, Barack, ref1
Olmsted, Frederick, Law, ref1
Olson, Barbara, ref1
Palin, Sarah, ref1
Paltrow, Gwyneth, ref1
Pankhurst, Emmeline, ref1
Parker, Dorothy, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Pater, Walter, ref1, ref
2
Pelosi, Nancy, ref1
Pennsylvania, University of, ref1
Perón, Evita, ref1
philistines, drab, ref1
Picasso, Pablo, ref1, ref2
Plath, Sylvia, ref1, ref2
Poe, Edgar Allan, ref1
Pope, Alexander, ref1, ref2
pornography, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14
poststructuralism, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26, ref27, ref28, ref29, ref30, ref31, ref32, ref33, ref34. See also Cixous, Hélène; Foucault, Michel; Lacan, Jacques
potato, hot, ref1
President, woman, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Presley, Elvis, ref1
Prince, ref1
Princeton University, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
prostitution, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
psychosis, academic, ref1
Puccini, Giacomo, ref1
Quant, Mary, ref1
Rabelais, Francois, ref1
Racine, Jean, ref1
Rainey, Ma, ref1
Rampling, Charlotte, ref1, ref2
rape, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24. See also sexual harassment
Réage, Pauline, ref1
Real Housewives, The, ref1, ref2
red, seeing, ref1. See also throw, stone’s
Redgrave, Vanessa, ref1
Reynolds, Debbie, ref1, ref2
Richards, Keith, ref1, ref2
Richter, Gisela, ref1, ref2
Rigg, Diana, ref1, ref2
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai, ref1
Rivers, Joan, ref1
Roiphe, Katie, ref1
Rolling Stones, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
Roosevelt, Eleanor, ref1
Rosin, Hanna, ref1, ref2
Rossetti, Christina, ref1
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Rózsa, Miklós, ref1
Rubens, Peter Paul, ref1, ref2, ref3
Sacher-Masoch, Leopold von, ref1, ref2
Sade, Donatien Alphonse Francois, comte de, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10. See also sadomasochism
sadomasochism, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6. See also Sacher-Masoch, Leopold von; Sade, comte de
St. Pauli Girl (beer), ref1
Salvador da Bahia (Brazil), ref1
Sanger, Margaret, ref1, ref2
Sappho, ref1
Sassoon, Vidal, ref1
Satie, Erik, ref1
Saussure, Ferdinand de, ref1, ref2. See also poststructuralism
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