Kunzman on Christian Homeschooling, part 1

This post reviews Robert Kunzman, Write These Laws on Your Children: Inside the World of Conservative Christian Homeschooling (Boston: Beacon Press, 2009).
Kunzman [see his wonderful homeschooling research website here], Associate Professor of Education at Indiana University, Bloomington and author of many works on religion, ethics, and education, here gives us one of the most important [...]

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Lucy Frank’s THE HOMESCHOOL LIBERATION LEAGUE

This post reviews Lucy Frank, The Homeschool Liberation League (New York: Penguin, 2009).
Frank, author of seven young adult titles, here offers a delightful contribution to the growing genre of children’s literature with homeschooled characters. 

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Modern Girls, Pioneer Spirit, and Patriarchy

This post reviews Susan A. Miller,Growing Girls: The Natural Origins of Girls’ Organizations in America (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007)
Miller, a lecturer in the history department at the University of Pennsylvania, here writes a detailed and fascinating account of organizations created in the early 20th century to help girls maintain continuity with the frontier past [...]

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Joyce on Patriarchal Homeschooling, Part 3

This post is the final installment of my treatment of Kathryn Joyce, Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement.
In my first post I summarized the book’s content.  In my second post I offered a few critiques and generalizations.  Here I’d like to offer some speculations about the movement’s future, drawing on a few personal experiences in [...]

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