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Women's Rights Exchange » Jean Hardisty

Founder and President Emerita of Political Research Associates (PRA), Senior Scholar at Wellesley

Jean Hardisty is the Founder and President Emerita of Political Research Associates (PRA), a research center that analyzes right wing, authoritarian, and anti-democratic trends and publishes educational materials for the general public. A political scientist with a Ph.D. from Northwestern University, she left academia after eight years of teaching and researching conservative political thought to establish PRA in response to the emergence of the New Right in 1981. After 23 years, she retired from PRA in 2004 and is now a Senior Scholar at the Wellesley Centers for Research on Women at Wellesley College. Dr. Hardisty is a widely published author and has been an activist for social justice issues, especially women's rights and civil rights, for over thirty years. Her book, Mobilizing Resentment: Conservative Resurgence from the John Birch Society to the Promise Keepers, was published by Beacon Press in October 1999.

Languages: English

Areas of Expertise:

• Confronting Violence against Women
• Sexual Rights
• US Foreign Policy
• Women's Health and Reproductive Rights
• Other Expertise: Christian Fundamentalism, Religious Fundamentalism

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