{"podcast":{"title":"New Books in Gender","slug":"new-books-in-gender-612984","podcast_index_feed_id":612984,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/LIT3077747900","website_url":"https://newbooksnetwork.com","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/f01fabce-f1a3-11e8-8461-f77ace4487d2/image/e2241d70e6072e60f482d28cf495fbab.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"New Books Network","episode_count":1000,"summary":"This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: ⁠https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/⁠ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies","last_synced_at":"2026-07-13T16:22:32.043062+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-gender-612984"},"episode":{"title":"Julia Bowes, \"Every Man's Home a Castle: Parental Rights and the Makings of Modern Conservatism\" (Princeton UP, 2026)","slug":"julia-bowes-every-man-s-home-a-castle-parental-rights-and-the-makings-of-modern-conservatism-princeton-up-2026","published_at":"2026-05-08T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-gender-612984/julia-bowes-every-man-s-home-a-castle-parental-rights-and-the-makings-of-modern-conservatism-princeton-up-2026","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-gender-612984","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK6153181663.mp3?updated=1778044821","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK6153181663.mp3?updated=1778044821","summary":"“Parental rights” is a rallying cry for today’s American conservatives, signaling opposition to mandatory vaccination and “woke” public school curricula. In Every Man's Home a Castle: Parental Rights and the Makings of Modern Conservatism (Princeton UP, 2026), Dr. Julia Bowes traces the origins of the modern parental rights movement to the nineteenth century, when the introduction of compulsory schooling laws, child labor regulations, and vaccine requirements provoked a resistance rooted in the presumed right of white men to govern their homes. A wide-ranging coalition—including Irish Catholic immigrants in Illinois, Mormon enclaves in Utah, and Protestant clergy in Virginia—believed that the state had usurped the “natural rights” of parents and “invaded the home.”Dr. Bowes shows how, by the turn of the century, those disparate voices had coalesced into national conservative movements. Anti-vaccinationists, alternative medical practitioners, and parents who opposed compulsory school medical exams joined forces to form the National League for Medical Freedom. Deciding a case brought by conservative Catholic lawyers, the Supreme Court declared parental rights a “fundamental liberty” protected by the Fourteenth Amendment. And the Sentinels of the Republic, a conservative citizen’s lobby, mobilized a campaign to defeat the proposed federal Child Labor Amendment, bringing together pro-family and free-market politics with far-reaching consequences.Exploring the emergence of parental rights as an antistatist ideology through legal cases, legislative debates, and political movements, Dr. Bowes argues that the expansion of state power over children provoked such fierce opposition because the paternal rights of white men—considered the “rights-bearing” individuals of American de…","meta_description":"“Parental rights” is a rallying cry for today’s American conservatives, signaling opposition to mandatory vaccination and “woke” public school curricula.…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2339,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/new-books-in-gender-612984/episodes/julia-bowes-every-man-s-home-a-castle-parental-rights-and-the-makings-of-modern-conservatism-princeton-up-2026/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-gender-612984/julia-bowes-every-man-s-home-a-castle-parental-rights-and-the-makings-of-modern-conservatism-princeton-up-2026.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}