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Lisa Duggan

Lisa Duggan is a journalist, activist, and Professor of Social & Cultural Analysis at New York University. She is author most recently of Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed.

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The sex wars of the 1980s were about much more than pornography.

Lisa Duggan

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