From the fiery intellectual provocateur - and one of our most fearless advocates of gender equality - a brilliant, urgent essay collection that both celebrates modern feminism and affirms the power of men and women and what we can accomplish together.
Camille Paglia is the University Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. A regular contributor to Salon.com, she is the author of Glittering Images; Break, Blow, Burn; Vamps & Tramps; Sex, Art, and American Culture; and Sexual Personae.
Title: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism (Canons)
Author: Paglia, Camille
ISBN: 9781786892188
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Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Publication Date: 2018-03-01
Number of Pages: 352
Weight: 0.2586 kg
Fiercely erudite, freewheeling and sex-drenched . . . The Helen Vendler-meets-Patti Smith grad seminar you wanted but never quite got [. . . Paglia is] a fearless public intellectual and more necessary than ever * * New York Times * *
Paglia's vision is always fresh . . . A fascinating and challenging reading companion * * The Times * *
Dazzling . . . Compulsively readable * * Salon * *
Polemical, thought-provoking, enraging, funny, and brave * * VICE * *
She flies as high as you can go * * New York Times * *
Remarkable . . . at once outrageous and compelling, fanatical and brilliant * * Washington Post * *
A compilation of Paglia's best, and most incendiary, previously published essays . . . At times infuriating, at times glittering, Paglia's prose is always biting and relentless * * Huffington Post * *
An essential work by an essential public intellectual * * VICE * *
Feminist and culture critic Paglia is at her feisty, full-throated best in this series of short manifestos that spans her career * * Publishers Weekly * *
Paglia is a brilliant thinker on culture and human nature . . . Inspirational in its tone and its message that freedom belongs to both sexes -- Helen Smith * * The New Criterion * *
