Sexual Personae Review

Paglia's story of Western culture is defined by a central conflict between two ancient Greek forces:

: This represents order, logic, and the "male" drive to build, categorize, and create a safe structure for society. Sexual Personae

: This is the "female" force of nature—chaos, instinct, and the primal urges that civilization tries to suppress but can never fully extinguish. Paglia's story of Western culture is defined by

In Paglia's view, art is the battlefield where these forces meet. From the regal, rigid beauty of to the internal, explosive poetry of Emily Dickinson , she traces how artists have attempted to trap the "Dionysian" within "Apollonian" forms. A Provocative Worldview and the "male" drive to build