Latest Post
Quiverfull: Shunned by God’s Army
This is a 2008 documentary I did for CTV Canadian television about an important chapter in the history of the homeschooling movement in the US and which was connected in some ways with what has come to be known as the Quiverfull movement. The events recounted in this video took place in 1994 and 1995. … Continue reading
Featured Posts
The choices women make to bear many children in the context of fundamentalist communities will cost them, sometimes dearly. Nobody talks much about these costs, certainly not women who are still in these communities, where to talk about such things indicates fearfulness (viewed as sin) or a lack of faith (viewed as spiritual weakness or … Continue reading
You keep buying the huge, family size, even when there are only two kids at home now and you have a smallish (or at least “normal” sized) family. Following from the first bullet point above, you consistently use your giant pots to cook huge amounts of food… which then becomes leftovers because it’s way too … Continue reading
Jeyoani (my oldest daughter, who is 33) read the following paragraphs to me from a website she’d come across after we’d been talking about Kathryn Joyce’s new book, Quiverfull. I’d visited the site before and recognized it as a Doug Phillips/Vision Forum kind of a place and therefore, I’d had no interest in lingering. The … Continue reading
In November of 2006 I wrote a blog post entitled I Blame the Patriarchs, Part I: The Truth About Full Quiver Families. I wrote this post in part in response to a horrifying series of events in my area in which Kimberly Forder, who had subscribed to my magazine when I was publishing, had been … Continue reading
A little over a year ago, I blogged about having been interviewed by Kathryn Joyce, who was writing a book about the Quiverfull Movement. The book has now been published, I’ve received my review copy, and though I haven’t read the entire book yet (and will begin tonight), what I have read is excellent! I … Continue reading
From approximately 1986 through 1994, I was a participant and ultimately a leader in a movement which has come to be known as the “Quiverfull Movement,” the “Titus Two” movement, and the “Patriarch” movement, Christian Bible literalist movements in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand that emphasize obedience to the Bible, submission to authority, separation … Continue reading
"Right-wing women have surveyed the world: they find it a dangerous place. They see that work subjects them to more danger from more men; it increases the risk of sexual exploitation. They see that creativity and originality in their kind are ridiculed; they see women thrown out of the circle of male civilization for having ideas, plans, visions, ambitions. They see that traditional marriage means selling to one man, not hundreds; the better deal. They see that the streets are cold and that the women on them are tired sick and bruised. They see no way to make their bodies authentically their own and to survive in the world of men... Right wing women are not wrong... Their desperation is quiet; they hide their bruises of body and heart; they dress carefully and have good manners; they suffer, they love God, they follow the rules... They use sex and babies to stay valuable because they need a home, food, clothing. They use the traditional intelligence of the female-animal, not human; they do what they have to do to survive." -- Andrea Dworkin, from Right Wing Women
Recent Comments