Wendy Kaminer is an author, lawyer and civil libertarian. She is the author of I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993.
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Wendy Kaminer is a lawyer, social critic and has been a contributing editor of
The Atlantic since 1991. She writes about law, liberty, feminism, religion and popular culture and has written seven books, including
Free for All;
Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials; and
I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional. Kaminer worked as a staff attorney in the New York Legal Aid Society and in the New York City Mayor's Office and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993. She is a renowned contrarian who has tackled the issues of censorship and pornography, feminism, pop psychology, gender roles and identities, crime and the criminal-justice system, and gun control. She is now a senior correspondent for
The American Prospect and her articles and reviews have appeared in
The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The American Prospect, Dissent, The Nation, The Wilson Quarterly, Free Inquiry, and
spiked-online.com. Her commentaries have aired on National Public Radio.