Audiobook - A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy - Tia Levings
I apologize as there is quite a bit of personal backstory first.
I'll admit it: back in my teenage years I watched quite a lot of 'reality' TV -wifeswap, americas next top model, even big brother was preferable to revising for my GCSE's. One show that I found particularly compelling was 'sixteen kids and counting'- later changed to seventeen, eighteen and eventually nineteen. If you don't know much about those shows - they featured the Duggar family. The Duggars are evangelical christians who are part of the IBLP (the institute of basic life principals) run by a man named Bill Gothard. Well, Mr. Gothard and his institute are completely nuts. So I found the show about the Duggars with their strict gender roles, ridiculous amounts of children