Posted in Family life, History of Homeschooling, Socialization, tagged Camp Fire Girls, Charlotte Gulick, Doug Phillips, Girl Pioneers, Girl Scouts, Growing Girls, Jamestown, Patriarchy, Quiverfull, summer camp, Susan A. Miller, Vision Forum on July 13, 2009| 1 Comment »
This post reviews Susan A. Miller,Growing Girls: The Natural Origins of Girls’ Organizations in America
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 even as they prepared them for the modern future–organizations like Camp Fire Girls, Girl Scouts, Girl Pioneers, and many more. (more…)
Posted in Family life, History of Homeschooling, Parental motivation, Politics of homeschooling, Socialization, tagged Albert Mohler, Amish, Christian Right, Doug Phillips, Gary North, Geoffrey Botkin, God's Harvard, Half-Way Covenant, Hanna Rosin, Harvard College, Jr., Kathryn Joyce, Michael Farris, Mormons, Old Order Mennonite, Patriarchy, Patrick Henry College, Protestantism, Puritans, Quiverfull, R.C. Sproul, Reconstructionism, Religious Right, Rousas J. Rushdoony, Rousas Rushdoony, Southern Baptist, Unitarianism, Yale Divinity School on July 6, 2009| 9 Comments »
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 the process. (more…)
Posted in Family life, Parental motivation, tagged Autonomy, birthrate, democracy, Family Wage, feminism, Kathryn Joyce, megachurches, Patriarchy, Pippa Norris, Quiverfull, Ronald Inglehart, Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide, Sexual Revolution, The Atlantic on June 29, 2009| 1 Comment »
This post continues my review of Kathryn Joyce, Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement
In my last post I summarized Joyce’s book. Here I will offer three criticisms and then try to generalize a bit from her data. In my next post I’ll offer some predictions for the future of the Patriarchy movement. First for the critique: (more…)
Posted in Family life, History of Homeschooling, Motherhood, Parental motivation, tagged Above Rubies, Allan Carlson, Bill Gothard, Birthrates, Botkin Sisters, Carmon Friedrich, Charles Provan, Constitution Party, Dawn Irons, Debi Pearl, Doug Phillips, Focus on the Family, Francis Schaeffer, Howard Phillips, James Dobson, Jan Hess, Jerry Falwell, Jonathan Falwell, Jr., Kathryn Joyce, Martha Peace, Mary Pride, Michael Pearl, Moral Majority, Nancy Campbell, No Greater Joy, Patriarchy, Philip Lancaster, Phillip Longman, Quiverfull, R.C. Sproul, Rachel Scott, Rick Hess, Rousas Rushdoony, Southern Baptist Convention on June 22, 2009| 4 Comments »
This post reviews Kathryn Joyce, Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement
Joyce, a freelance journalist based in New York City, here pens an important book on one of the most dynamic subcultures within the homeschooling world: “quiverfull” families where father is patriarchal lord, mother is submissive breeder of as many children as God provides, sons are trained to be arrows used in battle against secularism, and daughters are given a sex-specific home education to prepare them to be obedient wives and dutiful mothers. (more…)
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