Female He Created Them Podcast

In this episode, KT and Mary discuss Abigail Favale’s book The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory, including whether women are just as much a part of the tradition as men, issues surrounding the notion that men image Christ and women image the Church, and thinking about what women contribute beyond motherhood.

Other References:

Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan

Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich

Rec from KT: Blessed is She Planner

In this episode, KT & Mary discuss two essays by Dorothy Sayers: "Are Women Human?" and "The Human Not Human." Topics include men taking 'women's work,' considering men as 'homo' and 'vir' but women only as 'femina' and whether we have any right to be touchy about olde timey gender norms.

As you'll notice, this episode was recorded in 2024...

Lastly, the episode Mary mentions about Ephesians 5 will come out in season 2.

Other references:

The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity by Peter Brown

In this episode, we discuss Origen’s Revenge: The Greek and Hebrew Roots of Christian Thinking on Male and Female by Brian Patrick Mitchell.

Mitchell examines the two streams of tradition from ancient communities that inform contemporary Christian thought on sexual difference: Greek and Hebrew (anti-sexual and pro-sexual, respectively). We also talk about Trinitarian theology and the problem with the gap between neat theories of ‘what women are like’ or ‘how men and women relate’ and the reality of individuals and their unique relationships.

Other references:

We mention an episode about Abigail Favale’s book on gender, which episode is forthcoming.

In this episode, KT and Mary discuss Louise Perry's piece "The Myth of Female Agency." The conversation is very little about Lily Philips and a lot about concepts of agency and the spiritual life.

In this episode, KT and Margaux conclude their discussion of Gertrude Von Le Fort's The Eternal Woman, by examining two Von Le Fort's three feminine symbols: bride and mother.

In this episode, KT is joined by Margaux Killackey (MALA, St. John’s College) to discuss Gertrude von le Fort’s The Eternal Woman: The Timeless Meaning of the Feminine. In this first part, we discuss Von le Fort’s understanding of the symbolic and the first of her three feminine ‘types’: the virgin.

We changed the episode order, so the reference to the woman as image of God episode doesn’t mean you missed anything. That content will be posted as episodes 9 and 10.

Other references:

In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden

The Lumen Christi Institute

Essays on Faith, Hope, and Love by Josef Pieper

In this episode, KT is joined by Monica Jeffery (PhD candidate, School of Philosophy, Catholic University of America) to discuss two essays on woman by St. Edith Stein, including thoughts on the 'feminine soul,' gender essentialism, and the feminine as constituting half of what it means to be an ordinary human being.

In today's episode, we discuss John Paul II's Letter to Women and Mulieris Dignitatem.

In this episode, we talk about the project and where we will be headed in the forthcoming episodes. Welcome to Female He Created Them!