Lisa Duggan () is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at

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. Duggan was president of the

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from 2014 to 2015, presiding over the annual conference on the theme of "The Fun and the Fury: New Dialectics of Pleasure and Pain in the Post-American Century." Duggan earned her Ph.D. from the

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. Duggan is also one of the editors of queer commentary website, Bully Bloggers, developed with

José Esteban Muñoz José Esteban Muñoz (August 9, 1967 – December 3, 2013) was a Cuban American academic in the fields of performance studies, visual culture, queer theory, cultural studies, and critical theory. His first book, ''Disidentifications: Queers of ...

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, and Tavia Nyong’o. Duggan has described herself as a "commie pinko queer feminist". She was written on topics including feminist responses to pornography and homonormativity.

Bibliography

* ''Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political Culture'' with Nan D. Hunter (

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, 1995) *''Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence and American Modernity'' (

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, 2000) * ed. ''Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and National Interest'' with

Lauren Berlant Lauren Gail Berlant (October 31, 1957 – June 28, 2021) was an American scholar, cultural theorist, and author who is regarded as "one of the most esteemed and influential literary and cultural critics in the United States." Berlant was the Geo ...

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, 2001) * ''The Twilight of Equality?: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy'' (Beacon Press, 2003) * ''Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed'' (University of California Press, 2019)

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