The name “quiverfull” refers to Psalm 127: “Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are sons born in one’s youth. In Quiverfull, journalist Kathryn Joyce examines Phillips’s ministry and the sliver of the Christian Right that promotes “biblical womanhood”-women’s theologically grounded submission to men within the family and beyond. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008, 192 pp., $29.95, hardcoverĭuring the 2008 campaign, Doug Phillips, the leader of the conservative Christian home-schooling ministry Vision Forum, opposed Sarah Palin’s vice presidential candidacy on the grounds that God did not mean for women to lord over men or depart from being “keepers of the home.” Phillips called Palin’s selection “the single most dangerous event in the conscience of the Christian community in the last ten years.” Righting Feminism: Conservative Women and American Politics Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movementīoston: Beacon Press, 2009, 315 pp., $25.95, hardcover
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