Now available here in audio!  “Owned:  Slaves, Women, Children and Livestock,” by Valerie Tarico, is excerpted from the upcoming audio-book Women v. Religion, ed. Karen Garst. The whole book is awesome, and you can get a print or kindle version here.  For those who would rather listen than read, a rough cut of my chapter is free to you as a sneak preview!

Just turn on your audio and paste the link into your browser:

Valerie Tarico is a psychologist and writer in Seattle, Washington. She is the author of Trusting Doubt: A Former Evangelical Looks at Old Beliefs in a New Light and Deas and Other Imaginings, and the founder of www.WisdomCommons.org.  Her articles about religion, reproductive health, and the role of women in society have been featured at sites including The Huffington Post, Salon, The Independent, Free Inquiry, The Humanist, AlterNet, Raw Story, Grist, Jezebel, and the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.  Subscribe at ValerieTarico.com.