Lisa Duggan

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Lisa Duggan (born 1954 ) is an American gender researcher and historian . She specializes in LGBT studies and American studies .

Life

She received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 . She has taught at Brown University and is currently a professor at New York University at the Institute for Social and Cultural Analysis.

With her essay The New Homonormativity: The Sexual Politics of Neoliberalism in the book Materializing democracy: toward a revitalized cultural politics published in 2002, she coined the term homonormativity . In it, she criticizes homonormativity as a neoliberal strategy to integrate gay men and lesbian women into the status quo by adapting to heteronormative lifestyles, instead of questioning current political institutions and social norms .

From 2014 to 2015 she was President of the American Studies Association . In this role she was part of a controversy surrounding a boycott of Israeli universities by the American Studies Association, which she endorsed and supported.

Works

  • with Nan D. Hunter : Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political Culture . 1995.
  • Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence and American Modernity . 2000.
  • with Laurent Berlant (Ed.): Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and National Interest . 2001.
  • The Twilight of Equality? : Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy . 2003.
  • Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed. University of California Press, 2019.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mary Jo Buhle, Paul Buhle, Harvey J. Kaye (Eds.): The American Radical . Routledge, 2013, pp. 367 .
  2. ↑ Lisa Duggan. In: New York University. Retrieved October 6, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Julia M. O'Brien (Ed.): Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies . Oxford University Press, 2014, pp. 324 .
  4. ↑ Lisa Duggan: Lisa Duggan: Israel boycott has not hurt us. In: Providence Journal. November 22, 2014, accessed October 6, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Duggan, Lisa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American gender researcher
DATE OF BIRTH 1954