title: The Twilight of Equality?: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy
author:  Lisa Duggan 
description: A superb book . . . [Duggan] reveals just how much the far-reaching neoliberal revolution has been advanced, at every step of the way, through insidious appeals to race, gender, and sexuality.--Andrew Ross, author of <i>The Celebration Chronicles </i>&lt; br&gt;<br /> Brilliantly bold and coherent. [Duggan] rebuts the puritanical and the implicit, and makes a potent case for various hues of the unrepresented or underrepresented in American politics."--Akinbola E. Akinwumi, <i>Politicalaffairs.net</i><br /><br />"Duggan's well-reasoned argument is that true progressive change must occur not in parts but as a unified whole."--<i>Publishers Weekly</i><br /><br />"Finally, a cogent and hard-hitting attack on the cultural politics of neo-liberalism . . . We need Duggan's book, now more than ever, to point the way to new progressive politics, real social justice and a revitalized public intellectual sphere."--Judith Halberstam, author of <i>Female Masculinity</i><br /><br />"Lisa Duggan's insightful, carefully argued, and passionate book finally makes sense of neo-liberals' rise to power in the 1990s . . . Duggan leaves us with a brilliant analysis of where we are now and a map for how to get to a better, more just place."--Tricia Rose, author of <i>Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk About Sexuality and Intimacy</i>
zlib_text: A D D I T IO N AL  PR AIS E FOR  MEAN GIRL
  “An individualist who built a cult, Ayn Rand
  aggrandized greed as a virtue and was the
  unapologetic purveyor of what Lisa Duggan
  brilliantly calls ‘optimistic cruelty.’ This short,
  accessible, and powerful book charts the rise of
  aﬀective neoliberalism through the lens of a life.
  Buy it for anyone who has ever been lured by The
  Fountainhead or who needs help shrugging oﬀ
  Atlas Shrugged.”
  Bonnie Honig, author of Public Things:
  Democracy in Disrepair
  “With Mean Girl, Duggan oﬀers readers a history
  of how greed and capitalist accumulation were
  made cool and sexy. In a historical moment in
  which billionaires have been refashioned into
  super-beings, her history of this libertarian
  matriarch provides a necessary and eye-opening
  intervention.”
  Roderick Ferguson, author of One-Dimensional
  Queer
  “Reading Mean Girl is an exercise in emotional
  upheaval. One minute I was laughing out loud, the
  next crying into my tea, and then ﬁnally feeling
  conﬁdent that