Sex Wars is a collection of writings by Duggan and Hunter that brings together the best of the important work they have done on sexual politics in America over the past decade. Sex Wars traces the development of this politics and its deployment in three different arenas--speech and representation, legal regulation, and scholarship.

Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political Culture

Self-Help

Hunter, Nan

Duggan, Lisa

Routledge

Sex Wars is a collection of writings by Duggan and Hunter that brings together the best of the important work they have done on sexual politics in America over the past decade. Sex Wars traces the development of this politics and its deployment in three different arenas--speech and representation, legal regulation, and scholarship.

History

Americas

Sex Wars

This book is a collection of essays written during the 1980s and 1990s, generated as parts of other, larger activist efforts going on at the time. Read together, the essays trace the progress of the conversations between different activist groups, and between the authors of the pieces, Lisa Duggan and Nan Hunter, creating a bridge between feminists, gay activists, those in politics, and those in the law. Since the 1995 publication of Sex Wars, the political landscape has altered significantly. Yet the issues (and essays) are still relevant today. The anniversary edition contains a new chapter dealing with the changes in the law since the book's publication (Lawrence v. Texas, for example).

Hunter, Nan D.

Reference

"Astute."—New York Times Ayn Rand’s complicated notoriety as popular writer, leader of a political and philosophical cult, reviled intellectual, and ostentatious public figure endured beyond her death in 1982. In the twenty-first century, she has been resurrected as a serious reference point for mainstream figures, especially those on the political right from Paul Ryan to Donald Trump. Mean Girl follows Rand’s trail through the twentieth century from the Russian Revolution to the Cold War and traces her posthumous appeal and the influence of her novels via her cruel, surly, sexy heroes. Outlining the impact of Rand’s philosophy of selfishness, Mean Girl illuminates the Randian shape of our neoliberal, contemporary culture of greed and the dilemmas we face in our political present.

Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed (Volume 8) (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present)

Business & Money

Economics

University of California Press

"Astute."—New York Times Ayn Rand’s complicated notoriety as popular writer, leader of a political and philosophical cult, reviled intellectual, and ostentatious public figure endured beyond her death in 1982. In the twenty-first century, she has been resurrected as a serious reference point for mainstream figures, especially those on the political right from Paul Ryan to Donald Trump. Mean Girl follows Rand’s trail through the twentieth century from the Russian Revolution to the Cold War and traces her posthumous appeal and the influence of her novels via her cruel, surly, sexy heroes. Outlining the impact of Rand’s philosophy of selfishness, Mean Girl illuminates the Randian shape of our neoliberal, contemporary culture of greed and the dilemmas we face in our political present.

Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present) (Volume 8)

The Twilight of Equality?: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy

By now, we've all heard about the shocking redistribution of wealth that's occurred during the last thirty years, and particularly during the last decade. But economic changes like this don't occur in a vacuum; they're always linked to politics. The Twilight of Equality? searches out these links through an analysis of the politics of the 1990s, the decade when neoliberalism-free market economics-became gospel. After a brilliant historical examination of how racial and gender inequities were woven into the very theoretical underpinnings of the neoliberal model of the state, Duggan shows how these inequities play out today. In a series of political case studies, Duggan reveals how neoliberal goals have been pursued, demonstrating that progressive arguments that separate identity politics and economic policy, cultural politics and affairs of state, can only fail. Ultimately, The Twilight of Equality? not only reveals how the highly successful rhetorical maneuvers of neoliberalism have functioned but, more importantly, it shows a way to revitalize and unify progressive politics in the U.S. today.

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Beacon Press

On a winter day in 1892, in the broad daylight of downtown Memphis, Tennessee, a middle class woman named Alice Mitchell slashed the throat of her lover, Freda Ward, killing her instantly. Local, national, and international newspapers, medical and scientific publications, and popular fiction writers all clamored to cover the ensuing “girl lovers” murder trial. Lisa Duggan locates in this sensationalized event the emergence of the lesbian in U.S. mass culture and shows how newly “modern” notions of normality and morality that arose from such cases still haunt and distort lesbian and gay politics to the present day.Situating this story alongside simultaneously circulating lynching narratives (and its resistant versions, such as those of Memphis antilynching activist Ida B. Wells) Duggan reveals how stories of sex and violence were crucial to the development of American modernity. While careful to point out the differences between the public reigns of terror that led to many lynchings and the rarer instances of the murder of one woman by another privately motivated woman, Duggan asserts that dominant versions of both sets of stories contributed to the marginalization of African Americans and women while solidifying a distinctly white, male, heterosexual form of American citizenship. Having explored the role of turn-of-the-century print media—and in particular their tendency toward sensationalism—Duggan moves next to a review of sexology literature and to novels, most notably Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness. Sapphic Slashers concludes with two appendices, one of which presents a detailed summary of Ward’s murder, the trial, and Mitchell’s eventual institutionalization. The other presents transcriptions of letters exchanged between the two women prior to the crime.Combining cultural history, feminist and queer theory, narrative analysis, and compelling storytelling, Sapphic Slashers provides the first history of the emergence of the lesbian in twentieth-century mass culture.

Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity

Social Sciences

Duke University Press Books

On a winter day in 1892, in the broad daylight of downtown Memphis, Tennessee, a middle class woman named Alice Mitchell slashed the throat of her lover, Freda Ward, killing her instantly. Local, national, and international newspapers, medical and scientific publications, and popular fiction writers all clamored to cover the ensuing “girl lovers” murder trial. Lisa Duggan locates in this sensationalized event the emergence of the lesbian in U.S. mass culture and shows how newly “modern” notions of normality and morality that arose from such cases still haunt and distort lesbian and gay politics to the present day. Situating this story alongside simultaneously circulating lynching narratives (and its resistant versions, such as those of Memphis antilynching activist Ida B. Wells) Duggan reveals how stories of sex and violence were crucial to the development of American modernity. While careful to point out the differences between the public reigns of terror that led to many lynchings and the rarer instances of the murder of one woman by another privately motivated woman, Duggan asserts that dominant versions of both sets of stories contributed to the marginalization of African Americans and women while solidifying a distinctly white, male, heterosexual form of American citizenship. Having explored the role of turn-of-the-century print media—and in particular their tendency toward sensationalism—Duggan moves next to a review of sexology literature and to novels, most notably Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness. Sapphic Slashers concludes with two appendices, one of which presents a detailed summary of Ward’s murder, the trial, and Mitchell’s eventual institutionalization. The other presents transcriptions of letters exchanged between the two women prior to the crime. Combining cultural history, feminist and queer theory, narrative analysis, and compelling storytelling, Sapphic Slashers provides the first history of the emergence of the lesbian in twentieth-century mass culture.

Do you feel like you're on a daily treadmill? Are you questioning if this is your lot in life? Do you feel like you never get ahead financially, that you're struggling to make ends meet? Do you long for some "me" time? Do you know what you'd love to do in life but can't seem to make it happen?  Financial Planner Lisa Duggan has seen these problems and frustrations time and again. In It's Your Life Lisa will show you how to take control of your finances, to view money as an enabler, combining your individual values, what makes YOU tick, with your financial decision-making so that you understand the choices you have. This book encourages you to look at your "WHY?"   It's Your Life examines in detail: • the benefits to be achieved by taking control of your life and money • common mistakes people make with their money management • the importance of understanding your values and priorities • why you need to know your starting point • building a cheer squad to support you • the importance of commitment to a plan • protecting yourself • choices and tradeoffs we all face • the basics of good financial management. Life is too short and precious, so stop dwelling on what might have been, take a deep breath, look forward to the future and act. Live a life you love!  About the Author Lisa Duggan holds a Bachelor of Business (Acc), is a Certified Financial Planner and is the principal financial planner at Epona Financial Guidance. She is a passionate advocate for the value of advice, believing that with the right knowledge and compassionate guidance people can change their lives. She is driven to assist people to take control of their destiny and the roller coaster ride of life, to achieve their dreams....whatever they may be.  She practises what she preaches, now only working four days per week, having moved to the country where she enjoys spending time with her partner Bas, Border Collie Molly, horse Cooper and a few hundred sheep.

It's Your Life

Personal Finance

Michael Hanrahan Publishing

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Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political Culture

Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political Culture

Sex Wars

Sex Wars

Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed (Volume 8) (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present)

Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present) (Volume 8)

The Twilight of Equality?: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy

Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity

Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity

It's Your Life