Inside the Hidden World of Christian Patriarchy: One Woman’s Journey to Freedom

Inside the Hidden World of Christian Patriarchy: One Woman’s Journey to Freedom

Tia Levings’s A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy comes from this same world of content, control, and quiet erasure. She too was a fundamentalist wife: homeschooling, sometimes home-churching, blogging. She too crafted a digital persona that signaled self-denial and headship order. Levings’s memoir turns inward to ask what happens when the search for answers moves beyond the certitude, clarity, and legibility fundamentalism both offers and demands. In A Well-Trained Wife, thinking beyond fundamentalism’s binaries becomes a way for Levings to live beyond the role she was taught to embody.

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