The reversal of Roe, bans on teaching about gender, and gunmen showing up at drag shows all are part of a trend in US and international politics. Rebecca Sanders and Laura Dudley Jenkins call it 'patriarchal populism'. They explain what patriarchal populism is, and three tactics used to undermine and attack established women’s and LGBTQ+ human rights
Professor and Graduate Director, School of Public and International Affairs, University of Cincinnati
Laura's books focus on affirmative action in India, access and equity in higher education, and religion and politics.
Religious Freedom and Mass Conversion in India
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019 won the 2020 Hubert Morken Best Book Prize from the American Political Science Association's Religion and Politics Section.
Laura's most recent articles and forthcoming book chapter critically examine patriarchal populist attacks on women’s and LGBTQI+ rights, food aid and embodied sovereignty, and neoliberal 'women’s empowerment' training in ready-made garment factories.
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