Camille Paglia (1947) American writer
Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994), "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality", p. 30
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), Rape and Modern Sex War, p. 52
Camille Paglia (1947) American writer
Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994), "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality", p. 30
Camille Paglia (1947) American writer
Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994), "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality", p. 31
Camille Paglia (1947) American writer
Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), p. 11
Ellen Willis (1941–2006) writer, activist
"Lust Horizons: Is the Woman's Movement Pro-Sex?" (1981), No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays (1992)
Context: These apparently opposed perspectives meet on the common ground of sexual conservatism. The monogamists uphold the traditional wife's "official" values: emotional commitment is inseparable from a legal/moral obligation to permanence and fidelity; men are always trying to escape these duties; it's in our interest to make them shape up. The separatists tap into the underside of traditional femininity — the bitter, self-righteous fury that propels the indictment of men as lustful beasts ravaging their chaste victims. These are the two faces of feminine ideology in a patriarchal culture: they induce women to accept a spurious moral superiority as a substitute for sexual pleasure, and curbs on men's sexual freedom as a substitute for real power.
Catharine A. MacKinnon (1946) American feminist and legal activist
Source: Reflections on Sex Equality under Law (1991) Yale Law Journal Vol.100 No. 5, p. 1212
“Incredible cosmic powers do not equate with high IQ.”
Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer
Source: Steelheart
“We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.”
Gloria Steinem (1934) American feminist and journalist
Ursula K. Le Guin book Four Ways to Forgiveness
"A Woman's Liberation", p. 158; first published in Asimov's (1995)
Four Ways to Forgiveness (1995)
Andrea Dworkin (1946–2005) Feminist writer
Context: Anti-feminism is also operating whenever any political group is ready to sacrifice one group of women, one faction, some women, some kinds of women, to any element of sex-class oppression: to pornography, to rape, to battery, to economic exploitation, to reproductive exploitation, to prostitution. There are women all along the male-defined political spectrum, including both extreme ends of it, ready to sacrifice some women, usually not themselves, to the brothels or the farms. The sacrifice is profoundly anti-feminist; it is also profoundly immoral...
"Anti-feminism," Right Wing Women (1983), pp. 230-231.