Female He Created Them Podcast

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…)

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Lumen Gentium

Collaborators and Privates

The Catholic Church Lacks an Imagination for Lay Agency

In this episode, Mary and KT talk about Genesis 1-3 and the opening chapters of Luke. Topics include the alleged 'natural created order' upset by Eve's disobedience seen in light of the Annunciation, whether men are more fallen than women and women are more punished than men, the meaning of ‘dominion,' and whether women’s work has to be ‘flexible’ or whether accommodating women's childbearing is a basic requirement for a just society.

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Patriarchy’s ‘Created Order’ Dogma Fails Its Highest Profile Test Case

The enuma elish

FHCT Episode on Origen's Revenge: The Greek and Hebrew Roots of Christian Thinking on Male and Female 

In this episode, KT is joined by Rachael Killackey of Magdala Ministries. We discuss the sinful woman of Luke 7 and the woman caught in adultery of John 8, who to KT's surprise, is not necessarily Mary Magdalene. We also discuss Rachael's work with women healing from sexual sin and a lot of other biblical Marys.

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Gregory the Great's Homily 33

Five for Sorrow Ten for Joy by Rumer Godden

The Chosen (TV show)

Letter on the Collaboration of Men and Women in the Church and the World by Josef Ratzinger

About Time (movie)

Marnie Ferree

Love & Responsibility by Karol Wojtyla

Other Feminisms

In this episode, KT and Mary talk about lots of things, including the three munera of Christ, Abigail and David, whether women are natural mothers while men are natural priests, gang violence, and making peace through vulnerability as the image of God.

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Judith Episode

Sheila Wray Gregoire

“Idolizing Virginity” by Rachael Gieger Killackey

Jesus of Nazareth by Joseph Ratzinger

The Last of the Mohicans

Pocahontas (yeah)

A Catholic Introduction to the Old Testament by Brant Pitre and John Bergsma

I Will Take Joy by Rachel Wilhelm

Suffer the Children by Carl Bloch

In this episode, KT is joined by her sister Grace (BA, Catholic University of America; MA in Theology, University of Notre Dame) to discuss Jesus' encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4. Themes include how God thinks about women, why KT dislikes bridal imagery but how it might be thought of in an empowering way, and why we're so intent on being indispensable.

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The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis

Deus Caritas Est episode

Good Good Father - Curt Vernon and Julie Futch