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Women and Children First

Posted on April 17, 2009 · Add Comment

Upcoming Events

Posted on April 9, 2009 · Add Comment

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A few new interviews…

Brazillian Waxes, Condom Lies, And Quiverfull (podcast)
Amanda Marcotte of RH Reality Check

Matthew Elliott of GlobalComment

Hemant Mehta at Friendly Atheist

Journalist Studies Indie Religious Publishing
Jason Boog of Media Bistro’s Galley Cat
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Radio Quiverfull

Posted on March 30, 2009 · Add Comment

Links to three recent radio appearances for Quiverfull:

Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy, a Baptist preacher dedicated to the separation of church and state and head of the Interfaith Alliance and The Interfaith Alliance Foundation, talks to me about Quiverfull on his wonderful radio show, State of Belief on Air America. Listen here.
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No Longer Quivering

Posted on March 29, 2009 · Add Comment

Vyckie Garrison, an exited Quiverfull mother to seven whose story I wrote about in Salon, has begun her own blog, writing in partnership with her friend Laura, another ex-Quiverfull mom to 11. The blog, No Longer Quivering, is a fascinating look inside the movement from two women who have changed their beliefs about it entirely. [...]
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Extreme Motherhood

Posted on March 17, 2009 · Add Comment

New article at Newsweek:

If there is a wholesome counterpoint to the gossip-rich travails of single-mom Nadya Suleman and her 14 children, it might be Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, who had their 18th child just weeks before the arrival of Suleman’s octuplets in January. The Duggar birth was televised on the Arkansas [...]
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All God’s Children

Posted on March 14, 2009 · Add Comment

New story at Salon:

The Quiverfull movement saddles women with a life of submission and near-constant pregnancies. One mother explains how she embraced the extreme Christian lifestyle — and why she left.

Accepting every pregnancy as a unilateral blessing meant some radical leaps of faith, however. Put into physical practice, Vyckie Garrison says the [...]
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Interview at Buzzflash

Posted on March 10, 2009 · Add Comment

Buzzflash editor Mark Karlin interviewed me recently about Quiverfull. The interview is up today. Here’s an excerpt from his introduction:

When Americans think of patriarchal societies, female submission, or extreme gender inequality based on religious teachings, visions of Muslim women in burkas or Hindus in poorly arranged marriages may come to mind. The [...]
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Victory through Daughters

Posted on March 9, 2009 · Add Comment

Excert from Quiverfull at Killing the Buddha:

There were complications when Geoffrey Botkin’s first daughter, Anna Sofia, was born. The problems were physical—Anna Sofia’s mother, Victoria, could have died—and more esoteric, too. Geoffrey Botkin is one of the leading voices of a ministry called Vision Forum, the intellectual avant-garde of fundamentalism. One [...]
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New review at Buzzflash

Posted on March 9, 2009 · Add Comment

Kathryn Joyce approaches the Quiverfull followers with deep curiosity and the restraint of a good journalist. Joyce’s book is like walking into another world; in fact it is, except that these are a splinter group of the people who are so important to the coalition that Rove put together for the Republican Party.

Patriarchy is [...]
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