“single-handedly turned the ocean liner of feminism”
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Camille Paglia
Camille Anna Paglia is an American academic, social critic and feminist. Paglia was a professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1984 until the university's closure in 2024. She is critical of many aspects of modern culture and is the author of Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) and other books. She is also a critic of contem…
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culture · American feminist academic and critic (born 1947) · art historian · writer · literary critic · journalist · film critic · essayist · university teacher · also Camille Paglia, Paglia
Born 2 April 1947 · Q255463
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2026· 4 entries
“never once in my life have I felt female”
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“highly skeptical about the current transgender wave”
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“nearly came to blows with the founding members of the women”
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2019· 1 entry
In response to her views about transgender people and her comments about survivors of sexual assault, students at the University of the Arts protested her lectures and organized a petition to remove her from the school's
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2018· 1 entry
By Kim Hill, Paglia was asked, "Are you a libertarian on the issue of pedophilia
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2017· 2 entries
Stated that she is a registered Democrat who voted for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic primary and for Jill Stein in the 2016 general election
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“It is certainly ironic how liberals who posture as defenders of science when it comes to global warming (a sentimental myth unsupported by evidence) flee all reference to biology when it comes to gender.”
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2016· 1 entry
If she considers herself a cultural conservative she replied: "No, not at all
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2015· 1 entry
By pop-icons like Taylor Swift, Paglia argued that rather than empowering women, the cliquish practice actually harms the self-esteem of those who are not rich, famous, or attractive enough to belong to the group, while
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2012· 2 entries
Supported Green Party candidate Jill Stein
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An article in The New York Times remarked that "anyone who has been following the body count of the culture wars over the past decades knows Paglia"
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2010· 1 entry
“Babylon Nights : A David Spandau Novel”
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2007· 2 entries
In 2007, the couple separated but remained "harmonious co-parents", in the words of Paglia, who lived two miles (three kilometers) apart.
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The couple separated but remained "harmonious co-parents", in the words of Paglia, who lived two miles (three kilometers) apart
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2005· 1 entry
Paglia was named as one of the top 100 public intellectuals by the journals Foreign Policy and Prospect
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2002· 1 entry
2012, and 2022, the films Paglia holds in highest regard include Ben-Hur, Blowup, Citizen Kane, La Dolce Vita, The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II, Gone with the Wind, Lawrence of Arabia, North by Northwest, Orphée, Pe
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1999· 1 entry
Martha Nussbaum wrote an essay called "The Professor of Parody", in which she criticized Judith Butler for retreating to abstract theory disconnected from real world problems
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1998· 1 entry
In commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the release of Alfred Hitchcock's film The Birds, the British Film Institute commissioned Paglia to write a book about the film
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1994· 1 entry
Paglia supported lowering the legal age of consent to 14
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1993· 1 entry
Paglia signed a manifesto supporting NAMBLA, a pederasty and pedophilia advocacy organization
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1992· 1 entry
Carmelia Metosh, her Latin teacher for three years, said, "She always has been controversial
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1990· 1 entry
Awarded Athenaeum Literary Award for Sexual Personae (1990).
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1987· 4 entries
“Let's get rid of Infirmary Feminism, with its bedlam of bellyachers, anorexics, bulimics, depressives, rape victims, and incest survivors. Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.”
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“Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.”
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“Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion. Men are pussy-whipped. And they know it. That's what the strip clubs are about; not woman as victim, not woman as slave, but woman as goddess.”
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“Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.”
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1984· 1 entry
Joined the faculty of the Philadelphia College of Performing Arts, which merged in 1987 with the Philadelphia College of Art, to become the University of the Arts
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1973· 1 entry
Paglia drove to an appearance by Susan Sontag at Dartmouth, hoping to arrange for her to speak at Bennington, but found it difficult to find the money for Sontag's speaking fee
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1968· 1 entry
Graduating from Harpur as class valedictorian
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1964· 1 entry
Paglia entered Harpur College at Binghamton University
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1957· 1 entry
Her family moved to Syracuse, New York, so that her father could begin graduate school; he eventually became a professor of Romance languages at Le Moyne College
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1947· 1 entry
Born 1947-04-02.
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