“Everything kept coming back to ‘if there is a problem in your marriage, it is because of you’.”
Alaina Demopoulos, a features writer for Guardian US, tells Annie Kelly about her recent experience attending the influencer Tilly Dillehay’s “wife school”.
“I think the first thing that really got me, and she says this pretty early on, is if you’re going to suffer, suffer as a righteous woman. And that, I think, was the first sign that something here was off, because she doesn’t actually want to make women’s lives better. She just wants to make women more palatable for their husbands and their church communities.”
Why has there been a rise of Christian conservative influences teaching women how to submit to their husbands?
Mariah Wellman, an assistant professor at Michigan State University, explains the role the Christian influencers play in the Christian nationalist movement in the US and what a shifting culture on women’s rights means for policy.
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