Nadine Strossen

Strossen, the ACLU's first woman president, from 1991 to 2008, took on fellow feminists in 1995 with Defending Pornography, arguing against the anti-pornography ordinances promoted by Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin on the grounds that censorship laws are most often turned on women and sexual minorities. In her 2018 book Hate she made a similar case against hate-speech bans, by then a popular cause on the progressive left. She has since criticised the organisation she once led for stepping back from defending speech its own supporters dislike.