Articles by Anna Mitchell Mahoney

October 8, 2025

🌈 Abortion rights and the cost of compromise

Anna Mitchell Mahoney

Abortion rights advocates in hostile environments face difficult choices. Clare Daniel, Anna Mitchell Mahoney and Grace Riley’s research in Louisiana shows how traditional advocacy approaches fail to sway legislators, while attempts to communicate across differences risk long-term consequences. Gender scholarship must contend with the dilemma of sacrificing broader goals for smaller, immediate impacts in increasingly constrained political landscapes

Anna Mitchell Mahoney

Executive Director, Senior Policy Fellow, Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College

Anna conducts research centred on women's representation and gendered institutions.

Her current intersectional working project (with co-authors) includes an investigation of Black women legislators as bridges between Black Caucuses and women's caucuses at the state and federal levels.

Her work has been published in Politics and Gender, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Political Research Quarterly, and Representation.

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