Free Women, Free Men Free Women, Free Men Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism is a 2017 essay collection by American academic and cultural critic Camille Paglia. Comprising previously published essays, the book's central principles, according to Paglia, are "free thought and free speech—open, mobile, and unconstrained by either liberal or conservative ideology"; she argues for an "enlightened feminism, animated by a courageous code of personal responsibility". Dwight Garner of "The New York Times" felt that, though the collection has moments where "she’s a fearless public intellectual and more necessary than ever," "Free Women, Free Men" "[displays] her worst qualities." While praising Paglia's
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