Lida Maxwell

Lida Maxwell is the Associate Professor of Political Science and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Boston University. She is the author of Insurgent Truth and Public Trials: Burke, Zola, Arendt, and the Politics of Lost Causes.

The Queer Relationship That Powered Rachel Carson’s Nature Writing

Lida Maxwell on Dorothy Freeman, “Silent Spring,” and Rejecting Heteronormativity

July 18, 2025 By Lida Maxwell

For Chelsea Manning, Coming Out and Whistleblowing Were Deeply Linked

Lida Maxwell on the Collapsing Distinctions Between Public and Private as a Whistleblower

September 23, 2019 By Lida Maxwell

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