‘A husband expects a yes’: how wife schools are shaping submissive Christian women

Sebastian Ujică

A cottage industry of women are selling courses aligned with a conservative movement that claims feminism is the source of women’s discontent A thirtysomething woman with the easy smile of your favorite neighbor sits in her earth-tone living room, natural light washing over a gray couch so long it could easily fit four children. The woman speaks of a friend, a married mother, who was frustrated that she had to constantly remind her germophile husband to wash his hands. Hearing this, the woman