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The Fairie Queene makes cinema out of the west's primary principle: to see is to know; to know is to control. The Spenserian eye cuts, wounds, rapes.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
Hitchcock finds women captivating but dangerous. She allures by nature but she is chief artificer in civilisation, a magic fabricator of persona whose very smile is an arc of deception.
Woman's flirtatious arts of self-concealment mean man's approach must take the form of rape.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
Not until all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him.
Vamps and Tramps (1994)
The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
Only utopian liberals could be surprised that the Nazis were art connoisseurs.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
When feminist discourse is unable to discriminate the drunken fraternity brother from the homicidal maniac, women are in trouble.
Vamps and Tramps (1994)
With their propagandistic frame of mind, feminist leaders never admitted that their opponents could be equally motivated by ethics.
Vamps and Tramps (1994)
I think it is one of the greatest pictures ever taken of a woman.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
When feminism and gay activism set themselves against organized religion, they have the obligation to put something better in its place.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
The spiritual history of the Sixties has yet to be written.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
Incompetent amateurs have given prostitution a bad name.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
Art advances by self-mutilation of the artist.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
Women's studies is institutionalized sexism.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
As texting has become the default discourse for an entire generation, the ability to read real-life facial expressions and body language is alarmingly atrophying.
Male mastery in marriage is a social illusion, nurtured by women exhorting their creations to play and walk. At the emotional heart of every marriage is a pietà of mother and son.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
Western culture from the start has swerved from femaleness. The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)