This episode is Mary and KT discussing all the books they've been meaning to read but haven't and deliberating on what to read next.

References:

Holy Feast and Holy Fast by Carolyn Walker Bynum

Sick Societies by Robert Edgerton

- Psmith review of the same

Diagnosing Social Pathology by Frederik Neuhouser

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

The Dignity of Dependence by Leah Libresco Sargeant

- Other Feminisms substack

In a Different Voice by Carol Gilligan

The Evolution of Beauty by Richard O. Prum

Women and the Gender of God by Amy Peeler

Beyond God the Father by Mary Daly

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez

Debt: The First Thousand Years by David Graeber

In this episode, Mary and KT discuss Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum Novarum, plus historical context about the industrial revolution and the emergence of Catholic Social Teaching.

References:

The Dignity of Society by Russell Hittinger

In this episode, we're joined by Dr. Eileen Reuter and Dr. Matalyn Vennerstrom to discuss A. G. Sertillanges, OP's The Intellectual Life. Topics include a holistic, embodied approach to the intellectual life for, how mothers relate to time, can Sertillanges’ frame be applied to women,  seasons and the ebb and flow of the intellectual vocation, should we point out errors or politely ignore them?

Other references:

University of St. Thomas Houston Catholic Women's and Gender Studies Program

The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability by Elizabeth Barnes

Essays on Woman by Edith Stein

Edith Stein episode

In this episode, KT and Mary talk about the outcome of their Lenten resolutions and eventually get to the topic of the Easter Gospel readings. Topics: what do the Resurrection accounts say about women’s ecclesial vocation, the priesthood as spiritual motherhood, and the courage to be inadequate.

References:

He Leadeth Me by Walter Ciszek, SJ

Called to Communion - Joseph Ratzinger

A lot of things we couldn’t remember where they came from…

In this episode, Mary and KT discuss "The Maturation of Mutual Submission" by Dr. Greg Bottaro. Topics include he feminine principle and human meaning, female subordination as cafeteria Catholicism, developments in what is available to us through reason requiring a rethinking of the faith/reason conclusions of theology, and whether women are participants in sex.

(Apologies for the fact that KT is apparently bumping the mic in her excitement…)

Other references:

Models of the Church by Avery Dulles, SJ

In this episode, Mary and KT discussed Abigail Favale's article "Rethinking Complementarity: From Stereotypes to Icons." Topics include what are sex-predictive traits and the aggregate versus the particular, stereotypes based on the statistical extreme making the average woman/man feel like a misfit, accounting for virtue and acknowledging how men and women experience the world differently.

Other references:

Episode on JPII's Letter to Women

Episode on the Eternal Woman

Episode on The Genesis of Gender

In this episode, Mary and KT are joined by Mary's husband Luke to discuss John Paul II's "Meditation on Givenness." Topics include what's up with phenomenology, questions about KT’s memory, the philosophical anthropology of gift, and whether there is a particular character to the man-woman dynamic outside of an exclusive relationship.

Other references:

Origen’s Revenge: The Greek and Hebrew Roots of Christian Thinking on Male and Female - FHCT episode

Other Feminisms

In this episode, KT and Mary discuss the beginning of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, the magnum opus of the mother of modern feminism. We're interested in her also because Beauvoir was raised Catholic. Topics include existentialism and whether one is born or has to become a woman, the invisible ways the built world is hostile to female bodies, and Beauvoir's take on why societal sexism goes much deeper than men thinking women are equal.

Other references:

The Hidden Face by Ida Görres

"The Friend-Group Fallacy" in The Atlantic 

My Antonia by Willa Cather

"Does the Built World Welcome You?" in Other Feminisms

The Saints and Spousal Abuse episode

He Leadeth Me by Walter Ciszek, SJ

In this episode, Mary and KT are joined by Margaux to discuss an article about Servant of God Maria Aristeia Ceccarelli and her experience of intimate partner violence. How ought the Church to tell the stories of women who were heroically holy, even in circumstances they shouldn't have been in? If we uphold someone as a saint so that the living can imitate them, what are the potential dangers of not telling the story of an abused woman carefully? Also includes reflections on what faithfulness in marriage is--and what it isn't.

Other references:

Episode on the Eternal Woman

The Long Loneliness by Dorothy Day

"Love, Guilt, and Forgiveness" by Eleonore Stump

In this episode, Mary and KT discuss the Sisters of the Little Way audio documentary, Descent into Light. The discussion is more about the theory of what is abuse, why does it happen in Church-spaces, and what is a ‘culture of abuse.’ We also talk about spiritual abuse, abuse as the sin of power, and more.

There are no descriptions of actual sexual abuse nor similar explicit content.

Other references:

Lumen Gentium

Collaborators and Privates

The Catholic Church Lacks an Imagination for Lay Agency