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

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