Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement (Like the Duggar Family)

The TV-Reality couple the Duggars & their 18 kids are part of this movement. Newsweek has an article by author of this book.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/189763/page/1

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Product Description

A journalist's investigation of a Christian Right movement in which women put their fertility in the service of a patriarchal culture war
In the corners of fundamentalist Christendom across the country, an old ideal of Christian womanhood is being revived. It looks like this: The "biblical" woman wears modest, feminine dress and avoids not only sex but also dating before marriage. She doesn't speak in church, or try to have authority over men. She doesn't work outside the home, but within it she is its tireless center. She is a submissive wife who bolsters her husband in his role as spiritual and earthly leader of the family. She understands that it's her job to keep him sexually satisfied at all times, and that it's her calling as a woman to let those relations result in as many children as God wants to bless her with. She's not the throwback to the fifties summoned in media-stoked "mommy wars" but is a return to something far older. This Christian patriarchy movement finds its fullest expression in families following what they call the Quiverfull philosophy. Here, in direct and conscious opposition to feminist calls for gender equality and marriage equity, women live within stringently enforced doctrines of wifely submission and male headship. They eschew all contraception in favor of the philosophy of letting God give them as many children as possible-families of twelve or more children that will, they hope, enable them to win the religion and culture wars through demographic means: by reproducing more than other social groups.Journalist Kathryn Joyce plunged into this world to give readers an intimate view of the patriarchy movement. We meet Nancy Campbell, grandmother to thirty-two and counting, and editor of an internationally distributed magazine that provides guidance for women seeking to be "virtuous" mothers and wives. We are invited into the home of Donna Mauney, an "ex-feminist" homeschooling mom from North Carolina, whose children are more dedicated to the movement than she is. We are also introduced to the aspirations of Doug Phillips, founder of Vision Forum and one of the most influential proponents of the patriarchy movement-aspirations that include a return to the values of sixteenth-century Calvinism, the repeal of women's suffrage, and the cultivation of "virtuous daughterhood": unconditional devotion of a daughter to her father, who serves, quite literally, as her "Lord," until he helps her choose a husband who will then fulfill that role. Quiverfull takes us into the heart of a movement we ignore at our peril, and offers 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.

About the Author

Kathryn Joyce received her B.A. from Hampshire College and her M.A. in cultural reporting and criticism from New York University. Her freelance writing has appeared in The Nation, Mother Jones, Newsweek, The Massachusetts Review, and other publications. She has received support from The MacDowell Colony and The Nation Institute and is former managing editor of The Revealer, a daily review of religion and the media published by NYU's Center for Religion and Media, a Pew Charitable Trusts "Center of Excellence." She lives in New York City.

What will be funny to see is how the Duggar's react if and when one of their 18 kids comes out as gay. According to the stats, there is a very reasonable chance that that could happen.

:rofl:

or a single life? Or, if, God forbid, one of the daughters actually got a JOB?

The only college they are gonna have a shot at getting into is maybe Bob Jones U.

Lots of home schooled kids get into college.

I can pretty much guarantee you. People like this put little value on education, particularly for females.

Talibornagains of the Clown Car Uterus persuasion.

Sounds like relationships based on mutual fears...

I can remember as a very young wife standing in awe as my husband patiently
explained and showed me how to change a tire, change the oil and do a
tune up on our old Ford...

He told me that he wanted me to learn to do these simple things so I would
never have to feel that I had to have just any man to take care of these things
in case something would happen to him.


Tikki

until she could change a tire and change oil for the same reason.

:)

Tikki

I was channel surfing last night and watched a few minutes of their show. (I was really, really bored, okay?)

They use the code word "Nike" when they see a woman who is "immodestly dressed" and that code word indicates to the boys in the family that they are to walk by the woman with their heads down, and not look at her. One can only imagine what type of minor fashion statement might constitute "immodest".

I'm sorry - flame away - but this is like going back to the fifties!!! It's a backwards movement and not a forward movement. I for one have fought too hard my whole live to have women attain equality.

These people have the right to live their life the way they see fit, but frankly, this lifestyle disgusts me.

"women's liberation" they accept - such as the right of a woman to freely publish a book under her own name, have a job as an editor, etc.

Hypocrites

to create an Idiocracy

in which women like Campbell and Mauney would be Aunts.

cf Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaids' Tale"