Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism by Camille Paglia Pantheon, 2017, 315 pages, $50 __________________________________ Camille Paglia is, perhaps, the world’s only exciting septuagenarian lesbian academic. She champions pornography, football, rock music, poses for photoshoots holding a switchblade, and routinely says things like “Lena Dunham is a big pile of pudding” and Taylor Swift is an “obnoxious Nazi Barbie”. Her new essay collection Free Women, Free Men predominantly consists of two-decade-old, already readily available excerpts, articles and lectures, and offers little new material for those who have followed her career thus far. It is presented chronologically, with few annotations.…
Subscribe to get access to all online articles
Already a member?
Sign in to read this article
Digital Subscription
$98/ YR
Get the latest ideas from Australia’s most insightful writers.
- Digital Subscription includes
- Online editions of Quadrant Magazine
- Printed editions of Quadrant Magazine
- iPad ready PDF
- Access to Quadrant Archives
Printed & Digital Subscription
$118/ YR
For avid readers of leading ideas
from Australia’s brightest.
- Printed & Digital Subscription includes
- Online editions of Quadrant Magazine
- Printed editions of Quadrant Magazine
- iPad ready PDF
- Access to Quadrant Archives
- Quadrant Patron includes
- Online editions of Quadrant Magazine
- Printed editions of Quadrant Magazine
- iPad ready PDF
- Access to Quadrant Archives
- All new editions of Quadrant Books
- Exclusive invitations to Quadrant Dinners, book launches and events.