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Kathryn Joyce

Kathryn Joyce is an author and journalist based in New York City. She is author of The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking and the New Gospel of Adoption (PublicAffairs, 2013), and Quiverfull: Inside the Christian A system of social control characterized by rigid enforcement of binary sex and gender roles. Learn more Movement (Beacon Press, 2009). Her freelance writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Highline, Pacific Standard, The New Republic, Mother Jones, The Nation, and many other publications. She was the editor of PRA’s The Public Eye from 2015 to 2022. 

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Religion Dispatches
Conservatives and Christians remember a different message than Solzhenitsyn’s celebrated exposé of the Russian gulags…
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Religion Dispatches
A growing movement among conservative Christians exhorts women to give up the foolish notion of independence and subordinate themselves to their husbands. In this excerpt from Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement, Kathryn Joyce connects the dots between cinnamon buns and submission.
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Religion Dispatches
McCain’s choice of Palin was really meant to offer voters a more traditional womanly appeal: part Angel in the House, part sex icon….
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