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Vamps and Tramps Paperback – 31 Jan 1994

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  • Paperback: 560 pages
  • Publisher: Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc; 1 edition (31 Jan. 1994)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0679751203
  • ISBN-13: 978-0679751205
  • Product Dimensions: 13.1 x 2.6 x 20.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,194,405 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Can't get enough of it
By Simon Barrett 'Il Penseroso' on 26 April 2012
Format: Paperback
The grit in the feminist oyster, if Camille Paglia didn't exist she would have to have been invented

Does her gung-ho attitude to 'overt sexual grace and frank acknowledgement of sensuality' in the young feel a little queasy-making nearly twenty years down the line? Well, I guess it was always problematic. Leslie Fiedler's The Eye of Innocence (in No! in Thunder) considers the same terrain. Repression* is doubtless as necessary to our emotional well-being as release; the whole question is what, when

* Paglia's quite masterful analysis of Diana, Princess of Wales the previous year stressed that, despite allegations of (private) hysteria (Charles's word: histrionics), her power rested on (self-)discipline
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36 of 41 people found the following review helpful
This review is actually rated at 2 1/2 stars 14 Aug. 1999
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
Format: Paperback
In other words, below average but not a complete waste of time. When I read Camille Paglia's first book, I felt a sense of intellectual and sexual liberation and excitement, as if she were speaking to a part of myself that had lain undiscovered and unexpressed. This book is a huge disappointment: a lame collection of celebrity-worshipping essays, followed by an entire section dedicated to cartoons and media references to her name. I was embarrassed for her after reading this book. Camille Paglia is a woman of formidable intellect, but for all she decries white-tower academia, she is and will always be a product of its privilege and exclusivity. She obviously longs to be a Keith Richards-esque outsider and continuously points out how her various employers have censored and blacklisted her, and I think her books (except for the first, which is a minor masterpiece) are an effort to enforce that image. However, being pro-pornography and pro-abortion aren't exactly revolutionary stages to take, no matter how much our Puritan culture would like people to believe that; rather, they seem a relapse into a very solipsistic, male-oriented world that Paglia is very much a part of--a Testosterone Valhalla in which all that is non-corporeal can be visualized and fetishized (a futile undertaking, if ever there was one!) I am still hopeful that Camille Paglia's next work will put this one to shame.
30 of 37 people found the following review helpful
Paglia as performance artist; worthy addition 8 Aug. 2001
By Caponsacchi - Published on Amazon.com
Format: Paperback
Quite simply, Paglia is one of the best literary/cultural critics of the past two decades. Her prose is jargon-free and perpetually potent; her subject range reveals perhaps the singlemost interdisciplinary mind of our generation. Unfortunately, her political "incorrectness" gives those unwilling to be challenged by her insights an excuse not to read her. The mere mention of her name in academic or women's studies circles is enough to insure condemnation of the offender--merely adding substance to her critique of the present state of these two institutions. She is both a shibboleth and a pariah. (I was publicly spanked for invoking her name at a national symposium; then later congratulated privately by several younger women.)
Paglia has many personae. "Vamps and Tramps" may be a suitable introduction for some but it is actually more appropriate for the initiated Paglia-ite. "Vamps" is the "rap-music," "performance-artist" Paglia; "Sex, Art, and Decadence" is the frequently provocative and compelling popular essayist; "Sexual Personae" is the prolix, Nietzschean original thinker; her study of Hitchcock's "The Birds" is the disciplined yet passionate and provocative scholar. Any of these latter three volumes would be preferable as a starter for the reader wishing to discover why Camille can credibly claim the top position among current literary scholars and cultural critics.
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Her 15 minutes are up. 8 Aug. 1999
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
Format: Paperback
I used to venerate Camille Paglia until I read this book. In it, she shows symptoms of what I call "Ayn Rand's syndrome," in which people believe their own press and imagine themselves as omniscient.
In some of the essays, her old self shines through. In others, she makes fatuous, pseudoscientific pronouncements on such subjects as AIDS and the origin of homosexuality. If she is a biologist, Al Gore invented the Internet.
18 of 22 people found the following review helpful
The world won't listen 3 Jun. 2003
By Tyro - Published on Amazon.com
Format: Paperback
Camille Paglia's image is a blessing and a curse. Like Chris Rock, she can get away with telling the truth about our repressed, hypersensitive culture. Unfortunately, her audience expects her to say shocking things, therefore her broadsides have lost some of their impact. Her enemies, the Mackinnons and Dworkins, won the culture wars long ago. Their beliefs are now written into law, taught in college and inscribed in police procedure manuals. Critics like Paglia are a recognized but ineffectual voice, easily dismissed by the establishment. For these reasons, Ms. Paglia's essays and journalistic pieces may be slightly disappointing. The interviews and transcripts, however, are the real pleasure; they recreate the "dissident feminist" at her fearless, truth-telling best.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Food for thought...debate...and brawl 18 Jan. 2005
By Owen Keehnen - Published on Amazon.com
Format: Paperback
One of the most controversial figures in contemporary society is explosive critic, art historian, pop philosopher, and author Camille Paglia. Her newest collection of essays, VAMPS AND TRAMPS, includes sharpened swords drawn and abruptly driven into the current direction of gay activism, feminist thought, and academia. Her criticism is fierce, at once educated and adolescent, she is a rebel thinker whose mind seems in constant overdrive. She's philsophy with cajones. In addition this book contains her thoughts on all aspects of sex and sexuality, AIDS, prostitution, abortion, rape, and homosexuality. VAMPS AND TRAMPS also contains a blistering essay on Susan Sontag, an examination of Lady Di's popularity, Foucault body-of-work slams, and much more. Never boring, this book of breathless vitality is volcanic. It also contains book reviews, interviews, cartoons, and even her 'Spy' advice column, all executed in her signature bloodthirsty style.
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