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" Sex, art, and American culture : "
Camille Paglia
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BL
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584264
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b413483
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| Main Entry
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Paglia, Camille,1947-
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| Title & Author
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Sex, art, and American culture : : essays /\ Camille Paglia
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| Edition Statement
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First edition
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xiii, 337 pages :: illustrations ;; 21 cm
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| ISBN
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0679741011
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: 9780679741015
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| Notes
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"A Vintage original."
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-325) and index
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| Contents
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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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| Abstract
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A collection of twenty of Paglia's out-spoken essays on contemporary issues in America's ongoing cultural debate such as Anita Hill, Robert Mapplethorpe, the beauty myth, and the decline of education in America
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Popular culture-- United States-- History-- 20th century
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Culture populaire - États-Unis - Histoire - 20e siècle
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| Dewey Classification
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306.4/0973
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E169.12.P33 1992
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