Is Camile Paglia a lesbian?
Camille Anna Paglia is an American feminist academic and social critic. Paglia has been a professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, since 1984. Is Camile Paglia a lesbian? Paglia, a militant feminist and open lesbian, was working at her first academic job at Bennington College. She considered Sontag a radical who…
Camille Anna Paglia is an American feminist academic and social critic. Paglia has been a professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, since 1984.
Is Camile Paglia a lesbian?
Paglia, a militant feminist and open lesbian, was working at her first academic job at Bennington College. She considered Sontag a radical who had challenged male dominance.
Paglia’s Sexual Personae was rejected by at least seven different publishers before it was published by Yale University Press, whereupon it became a best-seller, reaching seventh place on the paperback best-seller list, a rare accomplishment for a scholarly book.
Paglia called it her “prison book”, commenting, “I felt like Cervantes, Genet. It took all the resources of being Catholic to cut myself off and sit in my cell. In the book, Paglia argues that human nature has an inherently dangerous Dionysian or chthonic aspect, especially in regard to sexuality.
Culture and civilization are created by men and represent an attempt to contain that force. Women are powerful, too, but as natural forces, and both marriage and religion are means to contain chaotic forces. Sexual Personae received critical reviews from numerous feminist scholars.
