Sexual Personae
Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

camille paglia: so misguided! despite the sheer idiocy behind many of her theses, she is a compelling, exuberant author, very readable, and definitely brings a certain kind of gusto and an often unique viewpoint to many classic authors. her rather operatic take on emily dickinson is particularly enj......more

This book is one of my all-time favorites and my favorite of Paglia's. I prefer Paglia the "academic" as opposed to the "media whore" (i.e. as she has expressed herself in her column for Salon.com) as I am at least 50% in disagreement with her political / geopolitical and often right-leaning Liberta......more

"Once you get into it, it isn't as hard as it looks" and "It changed my life" are phrases we often invoke to help stress the importance of important books we'd like to see more people read. Well, in the case of Camille Paglia's SEXUAL PERSONAE, first published in 1990, those phrases are no mere clic......more

Ah, Camille Paglia. What can I say that hasn't already been said? This book is well-written and absorbing, but if you are a female with half a backbone at all, you will want to rip it into pieces, piss on it, then set it on fire (which I guess won't be very effective if you just pissed on it). Pagli......more

She's a lunatic and a pagan, but very helpful.......more