Our Bookshelf

Our Bookshelf

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 [https://www.ucpress.edu/books/holy-feast-and-holy-fast/paper] by Carolyn Walker Bynum Sick Societies by Robert Edgerton - Psmith review of the same [https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-sick-societies-by-robert-b] Diagnosing Social Pathology by Frederik Neuhouser The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan The Dignity of Dependence by Leah Libresco Sargeant - Other Feminisms substac [https://www.otherfeminisms.com/]k 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 Get full access to Female He Created Them at femalehecreatedthem.substack.com/subscribe [https://femalehecreatedthem.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Rerum Novarum - Women, Catholic Social Teaching, and the Industrial Revolution

In this episode, Mary and KT discuss Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum Novarum [https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_15051891_rerum-novarum.html], [https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_15051891_rerum-novarum.html] plus historical context about the industrial revolution and the emergence of Catholic Social Teaching. References: The Dignity of Society by Russell Hittinger Get full access to Female He Created Them at femalehecreatedthem.substack.com/subscribe [https://femalehecreatedthem.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

A. G. Sertillanges OP/The Intellectual Life

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 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgmV7peXdYM] The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability by Elizabeth Barnes Essays on Woman by Edith Stein Edith Stein episode [https://open.substack.com/pub/femalehecreatedthem/p/episode-2-edith-steinessays-on-woman?r=kd56h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web] Get full access to Female He Created Them at femalehecreatedthem.substack.com/subscribe [https://femalehecreatedthem.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Women at the Resurrection

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… Get full access to Female He Created Them at femalehecreatedthem.substack.com/subscribe [https://femalehecreatedthem.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

The Maturation of Mutual Submission

In this episode, Mary and KT discuss "The Maturation of Mutual Submission [https://catholicpsych.substack.com/p/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 Get full access to Female He Created Them at femalehecreatedthem.substack.com/subscribe [https://femalehecreatedthem.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]