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Jean Hardisty

Jean Hardisty was PRA’s founder and president emerita, and had a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University. She was an activist for social justice issues for over 25 years and a well-known speaker and widely published author, especially on women’s rights and civil rights. In 1999, her book, Mobilizing Resentment, Conservative Resurgence from the John Birch Society to the Promise Keepers, was published by Beacon Press. She served on the boards of the Sister Fund, the Highlander Center, and the Women’s Community Cancer Project.

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Political Research Associates
Social Science Through a ‘Family Values’ Lens
Dr. Jean V. Hardisty, founding director of Political Research Associates, exposes the questionable social science justifying George W. Bush’s campaign to promote marriage as a cure for poverty…
Political Research Associates
The Right-Wing Roots of Marriage Promotion
Pushed to the Altar tells the story of how a right-wing social movement took power in the Bush administration and installed unproven anti-poverty policies to fulfill ideological valorization of the…
Public Eye
“An eye for an eye” captures the conservative model of punishment in contemporary western societies.
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