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In the 1980s, Fiedler was active in movements for peace in
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later reported that she had disavowed the statement, but she responded, "I have never retracted or recanted one syllable... I continue to stand behind every word of it without the slightest reservation."
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Fiedler finished a doctoral dissertation in 1976 titled "Sex and
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