Rift
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Rift

A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy

Cait West

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Rift

A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy

Cait West

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A gripping memoir about coming of age in the stay-at-home daughter movement and the quest to piece together a future on your own terms. Raised in the Christian patriarchy movement, Cait West was homeschooled and could only wear clothes her father deemed modest. She was five years old the first time she was told her swimsuit was too revealing, to go change. There would be no college in her future, no career. She was a stay-at-home daughter and would move out only when her father allowed her to become a wife. She was trained to serve men, and her life would never be her own. Until she escaped. In Rift, Cait West tells a harrowing story of chaos and control hidden beneath the facade of a happy family. Weaving together lyrical meditations on the geology of the places her family lived with her story of spiritual and emotional manipulation as a stay-at-home daughter, Cait creates a stirring portrait of one young woman's growing awareness that she is experiencing abuse. With the ground shifting beneath her feet, Cait mustered the courage to break free from all she'd ever known and choose a future of her own making. Rift is a story of survival. It's also a story about what happens after you survive. With compassion and clarity, Cait explores the complex legacy of patriarchal religious trauma in her life, including the ways she has also been complicit in systems of oppression. A remarkable literary debut, Rift offers an essential personal perspective on the fraught legacy of purity culture and recent reckonings with abuse in Christian communities.

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Publisher
Eerdmans
Year
2024
ISBN
9781467467254
Topic
Scienze sociali
Subtopic
Biografie nell'ambito delle scienze sociali

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Author’s Note
  6. Resources
  7. Birth
  8. But First …
  9. Rules
  10. Starter
  11. Marketplace
  12. Spark
  13. Colorado
  14. Fire
  15. Reader
  16. Vision
  17. Church
  18. Camp
  19. Girl
  20. Daydreams
  21. Nightdreams
  22. Graduate
  23. Practice
  24. Hawai‘I
  25. Island
  26. Helper
  27. Courtship
  28. Paradise
  29. Ophelia
  30. Plans
  31. Rebel
  32. Chava
  33. Engagement
  34. Selena
  35. Michigan
  36. Pure
  37. Home
  38. Work
  39. Rachel
  40. Essay
  41. Daughter
  42. Voices
  43. Virtue
  44. Unearthing
  45. Wilderness
  46. Origins
  47. Choice
  48. Postlude
  49. Acknowledgments
  50. Land Acknowledgment
  51. Notes