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- From: duve@ellis.uchicago.edu (michael andrew duvernois)
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- Subject: Re: PATRONIZE Camille Paglia !
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.000851.27637@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 00:08:51 GMT
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- Let's see, first of all Paglia is an academic writer and speaker who has
- recently received some notice in the general public (60 Minutes piece, NYT
- review, etc.). She's hardly a performance artist in the sense of Galas,
- Ackers, or Sloan. Also, she's bisexual, not a lesbian. As for the content
- of your post, the subject has long since been beaten to death in rec.arts.
- books among other places. While hardly an orthodox feminist, her positions
- are certainly not coming from the anti-woman fascist side (the Republicans?)
- but rather from an individual point of view. I certainly don't agree with
- many of the points about sexuality and identity that she raises, but
- her ideas merit serious debate, not diatribes.
-
- Note: She never denies the existence of date rape, but merely posits that
- orthodox feminism has twisted date rape into an all-encompassing crime of
- men. Almost any heterosexual act could be, according to Paglia, interpreted
- as date rape in certain quarters.
-
- Take a look also at Wollenstonecraft's "Vindication of the Rights of Women"
- in the context of William Godwin's writings. Makes for a good comparison.
-
- Mike
-
- Michael A. DuVernois m-duvernois@uchicago.edu
- Laboratory for Astrophysics and Space Research, University of Chicago
-
- Have you ever wondered, just where does Wonder Bread come from?
- Well, there's a place near Amarillo (that's where the government has
- atomic bombs assembled you know) called Dead Dog Crossing. No one
- lives there anymore, the last person of any note who passed through
- was Mr. Jack Kerouac, and in fact he didn't like it much. The only
- signs of movement are large tumbleweeds casually blowing down what
- once was Main Street. Well, Wonder Bread doesn't come from Dead
- Dog Crossing, at least, not since Johnson was president, skirts were
- short, and summers were long and hot. Definately not since then.
-