New review from The American Prospect’s Sarah Posner:
Quiverfull provides a comprehensive guide to the theology and political organization of these movements. Beyond being an indispensable guide to this landscape, Joyce’s cultural reporting is the standout of this book, as she travels the country visiting some of the movement’s leading lights, entrepreneurs selling their ideal of domesticated, godly bliss. The reader finds her on a weekend “Apron Society” retreat in rural Tennessee, casting an empathetic eye on a hugely pregnant young woman in the thrall of the submission theology; at the home of the publisher of a widely read magazine, Above Rubies, that peddles an antidote to feminism by promising liberation through submission; and at the authoritarian ministry of Debi and Michael Pearl, whose books on wifely submission and harsh child discipline have sold hundreds of thousands of copies.
