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Gender & Authoritarianism

Political Research Associates
An exploration of how prochoice religious communities can build influence as U.S. courts are poised to take away reproductive freedom.
Report
Political Research Associates
How Anti-Trans Feminists Are Complicit in Christian Right Anti-Trans Advocacy
Analysis of advocacy efforts over the past three years by U.S. anti-trans feminists demonstrates the movement’s success is limited to its unlikely role as mouthpiece of the Christian Right.
Report
Political Research Associates
Anti-choice forces are taking advantage of the COVID-19 crisis to pass state-level abortion bans and restrict funding to Planned Parenthood, posing a threat to both pregnant people and the greater public health.
Article
Political Research Associates
The fight against so-called “gender ideology,” a catch-all term used by various factions of the global right to disparage any disruption of a narrow understanding of the traditional family, has well and truly arrived here in the United States.
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Political Research Associates
In addition to creating their own favorable political conditions, the Michigan Chamber of Commerce also opened a back door allowing anti-choice organizations to enact abortion bans with little to no public oversight at all.
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Political Research Associates
How the Christian Right Built Capacity to Undo Roe State By State
This report was originally published on June 30, 2019 and has recently been converted into HTML text format in June 2022; please excuse any grammatical errors. Executive Summary The progressive…
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Public Eye
A Roundtable on Gender and White Supremacy
In November 2018, Loretta Ross and PRA convened a diverse group of activists, researchers, and scholars at the Blue Mountain Center, in upstate New York, for a wide-ranging conversation about gender and White supremacy.
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Political Research Associates
During the 1990s, the anti-abortion movement advocated for incremental policies that made abortion increasingly difficult to access. Since 2017, the movement has pivoted to launching a direct legislative assault in the states aimed at Roe.
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Public Eye
A PRA Webinar Roundtable
In the 1980s, the Moral Majority helped usher in an era of politicized Christianity in the United States. The breadth of Christian Right activity since then, from the evangelical Right, to fundamentalist homeschooling, to cross-denominational culture war
Webinar
Public Eye
Book Review
Evangelical “purity” culture, roughly defined, is the belief that Christianity requires sexual abstinence before (heterosexual) marriage, especially for girls and women, and promises sexual fulfillment to those who save sex until marriage.
Book Review