2000 WINGS #28-00 Mobilizing Resentment - Free Audiobook

In 1981,  Jean Hardisty founded Political Research Associates, an

independent nonprofit research center to study the U.S. political

right. Her latest book is "Mobilizing Resentment: Conservative

Resurgence from the John Birch Society to the Promise Keepers " (Beacon

Press, 1999). In her talk at the 2000 National Women's Studies

Association, Hardisty delves into the motivation and methods of the

right and particularly three kinds of right-wing women, the traditional

right, the Christian Right, and the "Equality Feminists." She also

talks about the racism of the new right. Though she says progressives

have a huge job of rebuilding to do, she is hopeful that today there is

activist motion, though she suggests the left has things to learn from

the coordination and recruitment methods of the right.

Talk recorded and edited by Frieda Werden.