Sex, art, and American culture
Subtitle: essays
By: Camille Paglia
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9780679741015
Subjects: Seksualiteit; Culture populaire; Populaire cultuur; Popular culture; Histoire; History
Notes: "A Vintage original."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-325) and index.
Table of contents: title: Madonna I: animality and artifice; title: Madonna II: Venus of the radio waves; title: Elizabeth Taylor: Hollywood's pagan queen; title: Rock as art; title: Homosexuality at the fin de siecle; title: The joy of Presbyterian sex; title: The beautiful decadence of Robert Mapplethorpe: a response to Rochelle Gurstein; title: The strange case of Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill; title: Rape and modern sex war; title: The rape debate, continued; title: Cleopatra sold down the river : Lucy Hughes-Hallett's Cleopatra: histories, dreams and distortions; title: Alice in muscle land: Samuel Wilson Fussell's muscle: confessions of an unlikely bodybuilder; title: The critic at graceful ease: Wendy Lesser's his other half: men looking at women through art; title: The big udder: Suzanne Gordon's prisoners of men's dreams; title: Brando flashing: Richard Schickel's Brando: a life in our times; title: What a drag: Marjorie Garber's vested interests: cross-dressing and cultural anxiety; title: Sexual personae: the cancelled preface; title: Milton Kessler: a memoir; title: East and west: an experiment in multiculturalism; title: Junk bonds and corporate raiders: academe in the hour of the wolf; title: The M.I.T. lecture: crisis in the American universities.