{"title":"Katie Gaddini","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKatie Gaddini\u003c\/strong\u003e offers deeply engaging narratives that explore personal growth and resilience. Her works, such as \u003cem\u003eEsther's Army\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Struggle to Stay\u003c\/em\u003e, combine emotional depth with thoughtful storytelling, providing readers with profound insights into human experiences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in themes relevant to education and personal development, Gaddini’s books invite reflection and understanding. They are ideal for readers seeking stories that blend compelling characters with meaningful life lessons.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-struggle-to-stay-by-katie-gaddini-9780231196741","title":"The Struggle to Stay","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvangelical Christianity is often thought of as oppressive to women. The #MeToo era, when many women hit a breaking point with rampant sexism, has also reached evangelical communities. Yet more than thirty million women in the United States still identify as evangelical. Why do so many women remain in male-dominated churches that marginalise them, and why do others leave? In each case, what does this cost them?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Struggle to Stay\u003c\/em\u003e is an intimate and insightful portrait of single women's experiences in evangelical churches. Drawing on unprecedented access to churches in the United States and the United Kingdom, Katie Gaddini relates the struggles of four women, interwoven with her own story of leaving behind a devout faith.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe connects these personal narratives with rigorous analysis of Christianity and politics in both countries, and contextualises them through interviews with more than fifty other evangelical women. Gaddini grapples with the complexities of obedience and resistance for women within a patriarchal religion against the backdrop of a culture war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHer exploration of how women choose to leave or remain in environments that constrain them is nuanced and personal, telling powerful stories of faith, community, isolation, and loss. 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Yet that narrative doesn't explain how they have also become some of the most influential political organisers of our time: the backbone of the modern conservative movement whose strategic efforts over the past six decades have culminated in the 2024 election of Donald Trump.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTo understand this unique and growing political force, sociologist Katie Gaddini conducted over ten years of ethnographic research, interviewing key players in the field and joining them across the country as they organised, rallied, and celebrated. As a former evangelical, Gaddini speaks the language of the Christian Right fluently and in \u003cem\u003eEsther's Army\u003c\/em\u003e, she profiles six distinct archetypes: college idealists, (anti)feminist powerhouses, Black conservatives, MAHA social media influencers, white suburbanites, and \"Mama Bears\" marching on state capitols to ban books and gender initiatives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eObserving Christian women's activism from grassroots networks to conservative universities to public politics and jobs at the White House—as they borrow feminist rhetoric to \"lean in\" to their executive skills while rejecting liberal feminism—Gaddini reveals how these women have turned being underestimated into a strategic force. 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