Understanding the Quiverfull/Patriarchy Movement
When we think of the Quiverfull movement, or the Patriarchy movement, we do not think of
them in anyway as a a threat to our basic freedoms, they are a quirky, weird group. The
Quiverfull/Patriarchy movement is not a denomination, but an ideal, their tenets of faith spread in
small communities, and individual, albeit, large families across the nation. It is in the way they attempt to
infiltrate the mainstream that is troublesome. Through politics and education, they wish the US to
submit to a distinct perspective of Godliness, one that preaches submission, and that all rights are not
equal.
The Quiverfull movement is spread primarily through the homeschooling movement, it can be
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Fundamentalist Christianity always
presupposes the domination of males and the subordination of both womand children to the absolute
authority of fathers and husbands...Abuse, therefore, is simply the price that biblical literalism and
moral absolutism inevitbly extract from the women and children.” 3
It goes without saying that price is extracted in everyhome that these movements are practiced in.
Sometimes it is physical, but more often it is emotional, and spiritual. A visit to Vykie Garrisons page
No Longer Quivering, on Patheos.com cites an explosion of sorts of women who have left, or are in
the process of leaving this ideology behind.
With the growing popularity of this movement we must wonder why? Why is it attracting
attention, and even followers? Maybe the reason so many average men and women are drawn to this
movement is because of the rapidly changing landscape in the USA, a shift from traditional familial
norms, a surging of atheist and agnostic beliefs in that stray from their parents church going
When we think of the Quiverfull movement, or the Patriarchy movement, we do not think of
them in anyway as a a threat to our basic freedoms, they are a quirky, weird group. The
Quiverfull/Patriarchy movement is not a denomination, but an ideal, their tenets of faith spread in
small communities, and individual, albeit, large families across the nation. It is in the way they attempt to
infiltrate the mainstream that is troublesome. Through politics and education, they wish the US to
submit to a distinct perspective of Godliness, one that preaches submission, and that all rights are not
equal.
The Quiverfull movement is spread primarily through the homeschooling movement, it can be
seen in …show more content…
Fundamentalist Christianity always
presupposes the domination of males and the subordination of both womand children to the absolute
authority of fathers and husbands...Abuse, therefore, is simply the price that biblical literalism and
moral absolutism inevitbly extract from the women and children.” 3
It goes without saying that price is extracted in everyhome that these movements are practiced in.
Sometimes it is physical, but more often it is emotional, and spiritual. A visit to Vykie Garrisons page
No Longer Quivering, on Patheos.com cites an explosion of sorts of women who have left, or are in
the process of leaving this ideology behind.
With the growing popularity of this movement we must wonder why? Why is it attracting
attention, and even followers? Maybe the reason so many average men and women are drawn to this
movement is because of the rapidly changing landscape in the USA, a shift from traditional familial
norms, a surging of atheist and agnostic beliefs in that stray from their parents church going