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Camille Paglia

Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.

Camille Paglia

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Camille Paglia argues that feminism rejects fixed ideas about gender, yet those very ideas have shaped Western culture's powerful and imaginative expressions of sexuality in art. She suggests that as soon as creativity is involved, these expressions become myths that challenge natural reality rather than simply reflect it.

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