Camille Paglia

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April 02, 1947 in Endicott, New York, The United States

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http://www.randomhouse.com/pantheon/paglia/

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Nonfiction, History, Women & Gender Studies

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Camille Anna Paglia is an American social critic, author and teacher. Her book, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, published in 1990, became a bestseller. She is a professor of humanities and media studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

She has been variously called the "feminist that other feminists love to hate," a "post-feminist feminist," one of the world's top 100 intellectuals by the UK's Prospect Magazine, and by her own description "a feminist bisexual egomaniac."

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Books by Camille Paglia

Average rating: 3.69 · 2,347 ratings · 231 reviews · 10 distinct works

	Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson 3.76 avg rating — 879 ratings — published 1990 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays 3.53 avg rating — 560 ratings — published 1992 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Break, Blow, Burn 3.80 avg rating — 374 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Vamps & Tramps: New Essays 3.59 avg rating — 398 ratings — published 1994 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Birds 3.95 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Sex And Violence, Or Nature And Art 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1995	My rating:
	Camp Nest by Camille Paglia, Todd Oldham 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Madonna Megastar: Photographs, 1988 93 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2012	My rating:
	Images: Art and Identity in an Age of Vertigo 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2012	My rating:

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“Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure and controlled vitality. There is gracious accommodation, yet commanding impersonality. Charisma is the radiance produced by the interaction of male and female elements in a gifted personality. The charismatic woman has a masculine force and severity. The charismatic man has an entrancing female beauty. Both are hot and cold, glowing with presexual self love.”
― Camille Paglia

tags: human-nature

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“Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary.”
― Camille Paglia

11 people liked it

“Gay men are guardians of the masculine impulse. To have anonymous sex in a dark alleyway is to pay homage to the dream of male freedom. The unknown stranger is a wandering pagan god. The altar, as in pre-history, is anywhere you kneel.”
― Camille Paglia

tags: gay , masculinity , sexual-politics

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