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Sex, art, and American culture : essays / Camille Paglia.

By: Paglia, Camille, 1947-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1992Edition: First editionDescription: xiii, 337 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0679741011 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 306.4/0973 LOC classification: E169.12 | .P33 1992Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-325) and index.
Contents:
Madonna I: animality and artifice -- Madonna II: Venus of the radio waves -- Elizabeth Taylor: Hollywood's pagan queen -- Rock as art -- Homosexuality at the fin de siecle -- The joy of Presbyterian sex -- The beautiful decadence of Robert Mapplethorpe: a response to Rochelle Gurstein -- The strange case of Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill -- Rape and modern sex war -- The rape debate, continued -- Cleopatra sold down the river : Lucy Hughes-Hallett's Cleopatra: histories, dreams and distortions -- Alice in muscle land: Samuel Wilson Fussell's muscle: confessions of an unlikely bodybuilder -- The critic at graceful ease: Wendy Lesser's his other half: men looking at women through art -- The big udder: Suzanne Gordon's prisoners of men's dreams -- Brando flashing: Richard Schickel's Brando: a life in our times -- What a drag: Marjorie Garber's vested interests: cross-dressing and cultural anxiety -- Sexual personae: the cancelled preface -- Milton Kessler: a memoir -- East and west: an experiment in multiculturalism -- Junk bonds and corporate raiders: academe in the hour of the wolf -- The M.I.T. lecture: crisis in the American universities.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library 1 West E169.12 .P33 1992 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182800750750

"A Vintage original."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-325) and index.

Madonna I: animality and artifice -- Madonna II: Venus of the radio waves -- Elizabeth Taylor: Hollywood's pagan queen -- Rock as art -- Homosexuality at the fin de siecle -- The joy of Presbyterian sex -- The beautiful decadence of Robert Mapplethorpe: a response to Rochelle Gurstein -- The strange case of Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill -- Rape and modern sex war -- The rape debate, continued -- Cleopatra sold down the river : Lucy Hughes-Hallett's Cleopatra: histories, dreams and distortions -- Alice in muscle land: Samuel Wilson Fussell's muscle: confessions of an unlikely bodybuilder -- The critic at graceful ease: Wendy Lesser's his other half: men looking at women through art -- The big udder: Suzanne Gordon's prisoners of men's dreams -- Brando flashing: Richard Schickel's Brando: a life in our times -- What a drag: Marjorie Garber's vested interests: cross-dressing and cultural anxiety -- Sexual personae: the cancelled preface -- Milton Kessler: a memoir -- East and west: an experiment in multiculturalism -- Junk bonds and corporate raiders: academe in the hour of the wolf -- The M.I.T. lecture: crisis in the American universities.

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