Ugly Freedoms by Elisabeth Anker was published by Duke University Press in January. Elisabeth is associate professor of American Studies and Political Science at George Washington Univ. and author of Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom, also published by Duke University Press. Her new book reckons with the complex legacy of freedom offered by liberal American democracy, identifying modes of “ugly freedom” that can lead to domination or provide a source of emancipatory potential.
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