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“... woman’s body is the battlefield where she fights for liberation’ – but light-years from Camille Paglia (‘that most noisome and anti-feminist of self-proclaimed feminists’, as Angier describes her), despite Paglia’s claim, in the most recent issue of Women: A Cultural Review, that she has been vindicated ...”

“... gay studies is not routinely reported on by the popular press, except via hostile witnesses like Camille Paglia, Bersani’s polemic is likely to gain a wider audience, and to exert a greater influence, than it deserves. Hence the following remonstration. Bersani begins magnificently. ‘No one wants to be called a homosexual.’ From there, however, he ...”

“... He largely kept his distance from the anti-PC brigade, but he struck up a correspondence with Camille Paglia and, in speeches, issued warnings about the rise of identity politics in universities. ‘Victimhood, alas, does not guarantee or necessarily enable an enhanced sense of humanity,’ he said. ‘To testify to a history of oppression is ...”

“... eat Indian food, ‘golden-mustard in colour and silty with twelve fresh-ground spices’, as Camille Paglia described a soup Rose cooked on a visit to Bennington to see Jim Fessenden, her friend and former lover, in 1973. Go home and start rereading Hegel and all his sources and everything else again.Like Russell’s Hegel, Rose’s Hegel saw ...”

“... to know that she had not conformed: ‘Publication – is the Auction/Of the Mind of Man –’.Camille Paglia​ calls it ‘a sentimental error to think Emily Dickinson the victim of male obstructionism’; her poetry, she argues, ‘profits from the enormous disparity’ between her ‘abnormal will’ and ‘the feminine social persona to which she ...”