Economics of Submission

Economics of Submission is the fifth book in the EATMS Productions Religious Authority series, a survival guide for women trying to understand how financial dependence becomes one of the primary mechanisms through which authoritarian religious movements maintain power. This book is not about whether charity is good, whether women should stay home with children, or whether churches should help people in need. It is about what happens when income, healthcare, housing, caregiving, and basic survival become conditional on obedience to religious hierarchy. Written by Petra Nein and Hannah Frasier, with an introduction by Esme Mees, this book examines the economics behind Christian nationalist governance through financial dependence, unpaid caregiving, the provider model, pregnancy, religious charity, healthcare monopolies, marriage, debt, donor networks, procurement systems, and institutional funding. It explains how unpaid labor, privatized aid, religious healthcare systems, financial insecurity, and political funding work together to make submission less costly than resistance while tracing the money that sustains religious authority. This is not a personal finance guide, budgeting book, economics textbook, theology book, or investment manual. It is a women-centered systems guide explaining how economic dependence becomes political governance, how financial vulnerability becomes institutional leverage, and how women can recognize the economic structures that limit autonomy before crisis. As part of the EATMS Productions catalog of survival guides, systems analysis, and social criticism, this volume gives readers practical tools for assessing financial exposure, understanding institutional incentives, documenting economic risk, and strengthening long-term independence. For readers interested in Christian nationalism, Project 2025, women’s economic independence, unpaid labor, caregiving, religious healthcare, financial abuse, marriage and money, donor networks, nonprofit funding, public procurement, religious charity, healthcare monopolies, women’s autonomy, authoritarian America, economic coercion, and practical political survival guides for women, Economics of Submission offers a clear, direct, women-centered map of how financial systems become governing systems.