A journalist's investigation of a Christian Right movement in which women put their fertility in the service of a patriarchal culture war.

Fundamentalist Christianity may lose some access to power in the next election, but it has long-term plans. In this fascinating look at the new generation of fundamentalist Christian women, journalist Kathryn Joyce introduces us to the world of the patriarchy movement and Quiverfull families. Here, in direct and conscious opposition to feminist calls for marital equity, women live within stringently enforced doctrines of wifely submission and male headship. Instead of raising independent daughters, these Christians advocate a return to keeping daughters at home-and out of college-until their marriage to a suitor approved by Dad. To counter reproductive rights, they eschew all contraception in favor of the Quiverfull philosophy of letting God give them as many children as possible-families of twelve and more children that will, they hope, enable them to win the religious and culture wars through demographic means.

Quiverfull is a fascinating examination of the twenty-first-century women and men who proclaim self-sacrifice and submission as model virtues of womanhood-and as warfare on behalf of Christ.

More than fifteen years in the making, Blood and Politics is the most comprehensive history of the white nationalist movement as it has evolved over the last three-plus decades. [This book] ties together seemingly disparate strands--from neo-Nazi skinheads to Holocaust deniers, to Christian Identity churches, to David Duke, to the militia and beyond.  Among these organizations, two political strategies, mainstreaming and vanguardism, vie for dominance.  

Mainstreamers believe that a majority of white Christians will eventually support their cause. Vanguardists build small organizations of highly dedicated cadre and plan a naked seizure of power. [This book] shows how these factions have evolved into a normative social movement that looks like a demographic slice of white America, mostly blue collar and working middle class, with lawyers and PhDs among their leaders.  When the cold war ended, traditional conservatives helped birth a new white nationalism, most evident among anti-immigrant organizations.  With the dawn of a new millennium, they are fixated on predictions that white people will lose their majority status and become one minority among many--and the book concludes with a look to the future, elucidating the growing threat these groups will pose to coming generations.