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#370 Has Feminism Delivered? - Carrie Gress


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What if the movement meant to free women has actually made them less happy, and people have struggled to discuss it?

In this episode of Being Human, Richard Atherton talks with Carrie Gress, a philosopher, co-founder of The Theology of Home, and author of eleven books, including The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us. Carrie, who has a PhD in philosophy, originally planned to write a short chapter on first-wave feminism. Instead, she spent four years discovering how its roots are closely linked to socialism, the occult, and a view of womanhood shaped more by envy than by freedom.

​She links Mary Wollstonecraft's call for equality to the consciousness-raising methods used in Mao's China, revealing a history that is new to many people. Her argument is not against women. Instead, she argues for restoring what feminism has quietly removed: the unique strengths women bring to families, workplaces, and culture when they embrace their own identity.

We discuss:

  • The hidden origins of feminism
  • Why women are less happy now
  • Motherhood as feature, not flaw
  • The false binary no one questions
  • What men really love about women
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    Links: 

    Carrie Gress / The Theology of Home

    The End of Woman (Book)
    Carrie’s Substack

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