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Biography of Camille PagliaName: Camille PagliaBirth Date: April 2, 1947 Death Date: N/A Place of Birth: Endicott, New York, United States Nationality: American Gender: Female Occupations: social critic, educator, writer Camille Paglia Social critic and educator Camille Paglia (born 1947) has outraged or befuddled countless readers with her defiantly iconoclastic writings. She has, for example, argued that pornography constitutes sexual reality, that prostitutes enjoy their work, that bisexuality should be an accepted norm, and that all drugs should be legalized. But as anyone willing to read her books and essays soon discovers, her statements are more often than not well-reasoned conclusions that cannot be dismissed out-of-hand.Camille Paglia was born on April 2, 1947, in Endicott, New York, to Pasquale and Lydia Paglia, who had immigrated to the United States from Italy. Her father was a professor of Romance languages at LeMoyne College in Syracuse, New York, while his wife, Lydia, worked at home sewing wedding dresses until their daughter was three; after that she worked as a bank teller.Encouraged in Art of DebatePaglia's family had little money when she was growing up; by …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…Paglia's writings have provoked animosity, contempt, and outrage. As First Lady of feminism Betty Friedan told the Playboy interviewer: "How can you take [Paglia] seriously? She is an exhibitionist, and she takes the most extreme elements of the women's movement and tries to make the whole movement antisexual, antilife, antijoy. And neither I nor most of the women I know are that way." Paglia, for her part, prefers to compare herself to conservative radio talk-show hosts Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern, viewing herself as a champion of unbridled discussion. Further Reading Feminist Writers, St. James Press, 1996.Paglia, Camille, Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays, Vintage, 1992.Paglia, Camille, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, Yale University Press, 1990.Paglia, Camille, Vamps and Tramps: New Essays, Vintage, 1994.Artforum International, Summer 1995.Publishers Weekly, November 28, 1994.Sociology, November 1994.Time, January 13, 1992."Interview with Camille Paglia," http://privat.ub.uib.no/BUBSY/playboy.htm. |