Quiverfull
The Barbie Syndrome: Interchangeable Fundamentalist Wives Easily Replaced by the New Model
by Vyckie Garrison, No Longer Qivering
January 10, 2012 - 9:45pm (Print)
In most of the online discussion of how dangerous Michelle Duggar playing maternal Russian roulette actually is no one seemed to hit upon my first thought, how quickly would Jim Bob replace her with a newer, younger, prettier model?
My Life as a Daughter of Christian Patriarchy
by Vyckie Garrison, No Longer Qivering
September 12, 2011 - 10:09am (Print)
Deep within America, beyond your typical evangelicals and run of the mill fundamentalists, nurtured within the homeschool movement and growing by the day, are the Christian Patriarchy and Quiverfull movements. This is where I grew up.
My Life as a Daughter of Christian Patriarchy
This article, "The Beautiful Girlhood Doll," by Libby Anne is shared by Vyckie Garrison from her site No Longer Quivering. Libby Anne also writes at her blog, Love, Joy, Feminism. This article first appeared at Butterflies and Wheels.
"They're Not Crazy, Just Quiverfull!"
A look into how "happy" these Quiverfull families are, as they propogate their belief that families should have as many children as mother's bodies are physically able to have, as a way of serving "God." They "train" their children instead of raising them, and "training is a word [they] use proudly" in this way. Those in the Quiverfull Movement teach their daughters to submit to and serve their husbands ("helpmates") and push their sons to become breadwinners, both at very early ages.
Tea Party Family Values and the World's Greatest Freak Show
by Vyckie Garrison, No Longer Qivering
August 29, 2011 - 8:50am (Print)
Fundamentalist Christians are convinced that contemporary American society is the World's Most Spectacular Display of hideously mutated, diseased and anomalous freaks. "Step right up folks!" the preacher yells, "and witness a grotesque parade of ho-mo-sex-uals, lesbians, Wiccans, radical feminists, godless liberals, secular humanists, and ... (congregation gasps) Muslim extremists!"
RH Reality Check Interviews: Kathryn Joyce, Author of Quiverfull
by Laura Janoff, RH Reality Check
May 5, 2009 - 8:00am (Print)
Brazillian Waxes, Condom Lies, And Quiverfull
by Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check
March 30, 2009 - 9:03am (Print)
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Roundup: FOCA a "Mythical Abortion Bill," Says TIME
February 19, 2009 - 11:30am (Print)
