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Free Women, Free Men

Sex, Gender, Feminism

by Camille Paglia
Camille Paglia
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From the fiery intellectual provocateur— and one of our most fearless advocates of gender equality—a brilliant, urgent essay collection that both celebrates modern feminism and challenges us to build an alliance of strong women and strong men. 
Ever since the release of her seminal first book, Sexual Personae, Camille Paglia has remained one of feminism’s most outspoken, independent, and searingly intelligent voices. Now, for the first time, her best essays on the subject are gathered together in one concise volume. Whether she’s calling for equal opportunity for American women (years before the founding of the National Organization for Women), championing a more discerning standard of beauty that goes beyond plastic surgery’s quest for eternal youth, lauding the liberating force of rock and roll, or demanding free and unfettered speech on university campuses and beyond, Paglia can always be counted on to get to the heart of matters large and small. At once illuminating, witty, and inspiring, these essays are essential reading that affirm the power of men and women and what we can accomplish together.

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  • Release date

    March 14, 2017

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780525495543
      • File size: 325959 KB
      • Duration: 11:19:04

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Social critic Camille Paglia refers to herself as "abrasive, strident, and obnoxious." And those words also apply to her narration. This intelligent, opinionated academic offers an array of provocative philosophical and historical perspectives that span a range of topics. She covers Madonna, Queen Nefertiti, Freud, and the importance of understanding football as a strategy for women who are stepping into the public arena, just to name a few. She's clear about her stance. Not only does she enunciate her words, she also projects them, as if to prove a point to those who have devalued her work. For example, a fifth-grade teacher once kept her after school to research the word "aggressive," suggesting that it's a negative characteristic for girls. She's been shamed and also praised. This collection offers a fearless in-your-face narration of her work. T.E.C. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      February 6, 2017
      Feminist and culture critic Paglia is at her feisty, full-throated best in this series of short manifestos that spans her career from her breakthrough 1990 study, Sexual Personae, to the present. Paglia’s remedy for the ills besetting contemporary women is an infusion of her personal brand of “Amazonian feminism,” which combines staunch libertarian principles with 1960s rebellion. She refuses to bow to ideology (“The premier principles of this book are free thought and free speech—open, mobile, and unconstrained by either liberal or conservative ideology”) and is uncompromising in her convictions. Paglia’s sharp tongue and clear vision veer toward forceful assertions and snappy insults as often as practical perspective and common-sense solutions. Her narrative of the major moments of second-wave feminism starts to sound rehearsed by the end, but her stances on date rape, abortion, free speech, sex, art, and the importance of historical perspective are admirably consistent, as is her contempt for university coddling, poststructuralism, women’s studies programs, cults of victimhood, and anything mainstream. Paglia’s adversarial stance and scattered self-applause sometimes obscure the excellence of her prose, which is terse and studded with vivid metaphor. One does not have to agree with her theories about masculinity, femininity, and sex to enjoy Paglia’s bracing intellect and scrappy attitude. Agent: Lynn Nesbit, Janklow & Nesbit.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 24, 2017
      Provocateur Paglia lends her voice to the audio edition of her latest collection of essays, which spans her career from her breakthrough 1990 study, Sexual Personae, to the present. Paglia’s croaky voice adds character to the reading as she spews contempt on a variety of topics, such as university culture, poststructuralism, women’s studies programs, and anything mainstream, while rehashing major moments of second-wave feminism. She overenunciates certain words and syllables while speeding past others; the combination creates a jolting rhythm with an air of pompousness. It’s oddly fitting for her style of prose, which has a tendency toward short declarative sentences and grandiose rhetoric. Listeners familiar with Paglia’s work will be neither surprised nor disappointed. A Knopf hardcover.

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