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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. 
This is such an important book that I intend to devote three blog posts to it. In this first one I will summarize the book’s contents. In a second post I’ll draw out some of its insights and and offer some critique. In the third, I’ll break with my normal protocol and offer more personal reflections precipitated by the book’s content. Continue reading
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).
(Boston: Beacon, 2009).
(New York University Press, 2013).
in 2008 there was only one really good book on homeschooling in print, Mitchell Stevens’ 
. Now there are five. In addition to Stevens’ and mine, all researchers should read Kunzman’s 
, Murphy’s