Vamps & Tramps: New Essays
by Camille Paglia
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Author: Camille PagliaEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1994-10-11
ISBN: 0679751203
Number of pages: 560
Publisher: Vintage
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Book Review: Spot on about whiny whitebread feminists
Summary: 4 Stars
From time to time in this fascinating intellectual hodge-podge of reviews, interviews, cartoons(!), photos, celebrity profiles and other ramblings, Camille Paglia gets over her head: for instance, she admits to being a fan of Rush Limbaugh. (This was obviosly before he was outed as a junkie.) But when dealing with muddle-headed, white-bread feminists such as Katherine Mackinnon and their species, she is brilliant. She is absolutely correct in denouncing contemporary feminism as a reactionary, latter-day Victorian, uptight and essentially middlebrow phenomenon. Her spotligt on underground figure Bruce Benderson and on Edward Said is especially enlightening. But when she comes to dealing with American cultural imperialism, she starts going astray and contradics herself: how is it that American pop culture is "pagan", a saving grace, and yet--as she claims, nearly in the same breath--deeply puritanical and reactionary? Camille doesn't clear that up.
Other than that, a fascinating read.
Summary of Vamps & Tramps: New Essays
The bestselling author of Sexual Personae and Sex, Art, and American Culture is back with a fiery new collection of essays on everything from art and celebrity to gay activism, Lorena Bobbitt to Bill and Hillary. These essays have never appeared in book form, and many will be appearing in print for the first time.United States Books
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