Michele Swenson

Michele Swenson, a former nurse, has researched and written about the history of women’s health care, as well as religious fundamentalist and gun-centered ideologies. Her book "Democracy Under Assault: TheoPolitics, Incivility and Violence on the Right" (2005) is an in-depth examination of the fractured church-state divide, assaults on the independent judiciary, as well as resurgent 19th-century science, socioeconomic Darwinism, corporatism, and Christian nativism.