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Author: Audrey Clare Farley

Audrey Clare Farley is the author of the forthcoming book, The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt (on-sale April 20, 2021). She is also a writer, book reviewer, and historian of twentieth-century American fiction and culture. Having earned a PhD in English from University of Maryland, College Park in 2017, Farley occasionally lectures in history and literature at local universities. Her essay on Ann Cooper Hewitt, published in July 2019 in Narratively, was the publication’s second most-read story of the year. Her writing on the eugenics movement and other topics has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New Republic, Public Books, Lady Science, Longreads, and Marginalia Review of Books, where she is a contributing editor. She lives in Hanover, Pennsylvania.
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The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt

The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt

Audrey Clare Farley

An excerpt from Chapter 2 of “The Unfit Heiress: the Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt” by Audrey Clare Farley—a story of eugenics and women’s reproductive rights framed by the sordid court battle between Ann Cooper Hewitt and her socialite mother.

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How Christian Schools and Homeschooling Teach Supremacist Conspiracies

Audrey Clare Farley

Scrambling to explain the mainstreaming of QAnon conspiracies, many have blamed conservative news. But another breeding ground for the conspiracies is the Christian schooling and homeschooling environment.

“The Christian Right has been doing ‘alternative facts’ since before it was cool.”

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