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Pushing Limits – August 29, 2008

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Pushing Limits – August 29, 2008

Paula Gunn Allen

Pushing Llimits host Adrienne Lauby interviews Native American iconoclastic academic Paula Gunn Allen, a feminist Wikipedia calls  "hugely influential." Paula Gunn Allen died this spring.  One of her last interviews was with Adrienne Lauby. Gunn Allen speaks about her life long disability, modern social movements, assisted suicide and other pressing, controversial topics. 

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