{"id":33977,"date":"2015-12-18T05:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T10:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=33977"},"modified":"2019-05-19T11:46:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T15:46:44","slug":"camille-paglia-on-feminist-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/12\/18\/camille-paglia-on-feminist-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Camille Paglia on &#8220;Feminist trouble&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>Spiked<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/spiked-review\/article\/feminist-trouble#.Vm8rAIRllBx\" target=\"_blank\">Camille Paglia talks to Ella Whelan<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s doubtful whether Camille Paglia \u2013 cultural critic, academic and the author of several acclaimed books including, most recently, <em>Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars<\/em> \u2013 has ever pulled a punch. Since she burst on to the cultural scene in the 1990s, following the publication of <em>Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson<\/em> \u2013 as she put it, the \u2018most X-rated academic book ever written\u2019 \u2013 Paglia has been a trenchant, principled voice in the Culture Wars, attacking, with one hand, the anti-sex illiberalism of her feminist peers, while, with the other, laying waste to the trendy, pomo relativism infecting the academy.<\/p>\n<p>Above all, Paglia, who some have called the anti-feminist feminist, has remained a staunch defender of individual freedom. She has argued against laws prohibiting pornography, drugs and abortion. And, when political correctness was cutting a swathe through a host of institutions during the 1990s, she stood firmly on the side of free speech. So, what does she make of the political and cultural state of feminism today? What does she think of the revival of anti-sex sentiment among young feminists, their obsession with policing language, and their wholehearted embrace of victimhood? As spiked\u2019s Ella Whelan discovered, Paglia\u2019s convictions burn as brightly as ever\u2026 <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Spiked, Camille Paglia talks to Ella Whelan: It\u2019s doubtful whether Camille Paglia \u2013 cultural critic, academic and the author of several acclaimed books including, most recently, Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars \u2013 has ever pulled a punch. Since she burst on to the cultural scene in the 1990s, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,10,28,13],"tags":[1288,86,262,987,255],"class_list":["post-33977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-liberty","category-media","category-usa","tag-camillepaglia","tag-criticism","tag-culture","tag-feminism","tag-sexuality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8Q1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33978,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33977\/revisions\/33978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}