Quiver full movement7/10/2023 ![]() ![]() At turns funny, terrifying, and heartbreaking, Quiverfull is a necessary book, an empathetic and brilliant analysis of how this small group of believers shape mainstream ideas about motherhood, marriage, sex and gender. “Prairie muffins,” hayrides, and babies-lots of babies-don’t sound like the stuff of fanaticism, but in Quiverfull Kathryn Joyce brings us the news from the most militant frontier of fundamentalism-a “patriarchy movement” of right-wing women who embrace a caricature of 19th century womanhood as a strategy for culture war. Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed and This Land is Their Land ![]() ![]() If you’ve been feeling complacent about women’s status-read this book! Kathryn Joyce gives us a first-ever glimpse into the Christian patriarchy movement, and her riveting reporting makes it all the scarier. While mainstream America faced the possibility of a female president, a grassroots movement has been quietly organizing to restore patriarchy-and reduce women to the status of slave-like breeders. Quiverfull is a fascinating examination of the twenty-first-century women and men who proclaim self-sacrifice and submission as model virtues of womanhood-and as warfare on behalf of Christ. To counter reproductive rights, they eschew all contraception in favor of the Quiverfull philosophy of letting God give them as many children as possible-families of twelve and more children that will, they hope, enable them to win the religious and culture wars through demographic means. Instead of raising independent daughters, these Christians advocate a return to keeping daughters at home-and out of college-until their marriage to a suitor approved by Dad. Here, in direct and conscious opposition to feminist calls for marital equity, women live within stringently enforced doctrines of wifely submission and male headship. In this fascinating look at the new generation of fundamentalist Christian women, journalist Kathryn Joyce introduces us to the world of the patriarchy movement and Quiverfull families. Fundamentalist Christianity may have lost some access to power in the last election, but it has long-term plans. ![]()
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