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Patrick Schmidt @pdwschmidt.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

My favorite type of post is seeing what people are reading. Here's my summer reading list here, minus a few older ones. @juliabowes.bsky.social, @profferguson.bsky.social, and @unlawfulentries.bsky.social included!

Stack of books including ones by Anna Law, Julia Bowes, and Andrew Guthrie Ferguson.

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

In Every Man’s Home a Castle, @juliabowes.bsky.social traces the emergence of parental rights as a conservative movement spurred by the presumed right of white men to govern their homes. Out now (16 June UK pub). Read a free preview: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Every Man's Home a Castle: Parental Rights and the Makings of Modern Conservatism by Julia Bowes. The emergence of parental rights as a conservative movement spurred by the presumed right of white men to govern their homes.

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Julia Bowes @juliabowes.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Very excited to share that my interview with Miranda Melcher on my new book, Every Man's Home A Castle, now out with @princetonupress.bsky.social is now live on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social You can have a listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/every-mans-h... #amhistory #parentalrights #conservatism

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Julia Bowes, "Every Man's Home a Castle: Parental Rights and the Makings of Modern Conservatism" (Princeton UP, 2026) - New Books Network

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

The emergence of parental rights as a conservative movement spurred by the presumed right of white men to govern their homes. Every Man's Home a Castle by @juliabowes.bsky.social is now available (16 June UK pub). Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #PoliSci #ReadUP

Every Man's Home a Castle: Parental Rights and the Makings of Modern Conservatism by Julia Bowes

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Julia Bowes @juliabowes.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

It is publication day!! 🎂 If you want to understand why the white patriarchal family is so central to American conservatism today, take a dive through history with me. And enjoy 30% with code EXH30 #amhistory #polsci #conservatism #legalhistory #oah26 @princetonupress.bsky.social

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Julia Bowes @juliabowes.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Thank you so much @derekgottliebphd.com! If you read the book, and make it all the way to the end, I hope you appreciate Derek's excellent indexing skills. Or start with the index to find what takes your fancy. Either way, thanks for spreading the word #OAH26 #parentalrights #amhistory #history

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

In Every Man’s Home a Castle, @juliabowes.bsky.social traces the emergence of parental rights as a conservative movement spurred by the presumed right of white men to govern their homes. Available April 21 (16 June UK pub). Preorder your copy here: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #PoliSci

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Julia Bowes @juliabowes.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Please judge my book by its cover! 🥰 You can also judge it by what appears on the pages buying it in the US from April 21, in the UK from mid June, and in Australia from mid-July. @princetonupress.bsky.social

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Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 30/09/2025

This sure reminds me of a conversation I was having with @jessicacalarco.com last week. Also reminds me of @juliabowes.bsky.social's forthcoming book: When do we REALLY stress our deep individualism? When “manhood” needs reasserting.

Title page of Julia Bowes’s forthcoming “Every Man’s Home a Castle"

The deep skepticism of state power and the combustible sense of manly pride was perhaps best captured in an anti-vaccination tirade published in Kentucky’s Hartford Herald in 1917 by an individual who styled himself simply as “A. Layman.” The “layman” disclosed neither his name nor his gender—nor did he need to. It was a rhetorical move that positioned his cause the common plight of all independent rights-bearing citizens, presumed to be white men, who needed to jealously guard their liberty against state power. His outburst was provoked by a recent local order that used the state’s compulsory schooling law to require the vaccination of all school-age children and laid out all of the arguments against vaccination that had been circulating in the country for three decades. He rejected the science and safety of vaccination: “Tens of thousands of miserable deaths, wrecked lives, and rotted arms,” he claimed, had not been caused by the scourge of smallpox but by “blood poison” resulting from the fraudulent science of vaccination. Next, he alleged there was a monopolistic conspiracy between vaccine manufacturers and the state who were both profiting off the public’s fear of smallpox.

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Julia Bowes @juliabowes.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Re-entering the online world of academia to share my latest work post-mat leave -- my very pithily titled article "Another Human Sacrifice Thrown to the Pitiless Moloch of Police Power" on anti-vaccination politics at the turn of the twentieth century. TLDR below.

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