Frases de Camille Paglia
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Camille Anna Paglia[1]​ es una crítica social, intelectual, escritora y profesora estadounidense. Es profesora de humanidades y de estudios sobre medios de comunicación en la Universidad de las Artes en Filadelfia. Entre otras muchas definiciones, ha sido considerada como "la feminista a la que las otras feministas odian", "una feminista post-feminista", "uno de los 100 intelectuales más importantes del mundo" en 2005 por la revista Prospect del Reino Unido[2]​ e, incluso, en sus propias palabras, "una egomaníaca feminista bisexual".

Considerada una de las principales críticas del feminismo de género. [3]​

✵ 2. abril 1947
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Camille Paglia: Frases en inglés

“Feminism, coveting social power, is blind to women’s cosmic sexual power.”

Fuente: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), Rape and Modern Sex War, p. 52

“I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.”

Fuente: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 166

“Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.”

Fuente: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 1

“Everyone of my generation who preached free love is responsible for AIDS.”

Fuente: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf, p. 216

“Simply follow nature, Rousseau declares. Sade, laughing grimly, agrees.”

Fuente: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 235

“The mystique of the femme fatale cannot be perfectly translated into male terms.”

Fuente: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 15

“Despite hundreds of studies, cause-and-effect relationship between pornography and violence has never been satisfactorily proved.”

Fuente: Vamps and Tramps (1994), "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality", p. 65

“Everything great in western civilization has come from struggling against our origins.”

Fuente: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 40
Contexto: The book of Genesis is a male declaration of independence from the ancient mother-cults. Its challenge to nature, so sexist to modern ears, marks one of the crucial moments in western history. Mind can never be free of matter. Only by mind imagining itself free can culture advance. The mother-cults, by reconciling man to nature, entrapped him in matter. Everything great in western civilization has come from struggling against our origins. Genesis is rigid and unjust, but it gave man hope as a man. It remade the world by male dynasty, canceling the power of mothers.

“[W]omen will never be taken seriously until they accept full responsibility for their sexuality.”

Fuente: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), p. 269

“Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.”

Fuente: Vamps and Tramps (1994), "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality", p. 38

“Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.”

Fuente: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 18

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