The Child Catchers by Kathryn Joyce

November 12, 2014 by Christina

Nonfiction — print. PublicAffairs, 2013. 352 pgs. Library copy. Entangled in the political juggernaut of reproductive rights, adoption is championed as a “win-win” compromise to a woman’s right to choice — abortion opponents “win” as the woman has not had an abortion, pregnant women “win” because they do not have to raise the fetus in question, and couples struggling with infertility “win” because they can finally become parents. Yet adoption is also entangled with serious moral and ethical dilemmas — as suggested […]

Categories: 2014 Reads, Adoption, Africa, Asia, Europe, Nonfiction, North America, South America, United States • Tags: Kathryn Joyce

Quiverfull by Kathryn Joyce

August 17, 2014 by Christina

Nonfiction — print. Beacon Press, 2009. 272 pgs. Library copy. The Quiverfull movement is a subculture to the fundamentalist Christian movement and a component of the Christian patriarchy movement – the former rejects birth control and the later values submission as a cornerstone of Christian womanhood. The most famous adherents of the Quiverfull movement in the United States are the Duggar family from Arkansas with nineteen children and their own show on TLC, although they do not use the term “quiverfull”. […]

Categories: 2014 Reads, Nonfiction, North America, Religion, United States • Tags: Kathryn Joyce