And are you a feminist, I guess?

My thinking has really evolved on this because I never felt like I had a good answer.

But I think now, finally, having really looked at the whole picture.

I'm... Welcome to Louvcast, where we cover all things faith, culture, and politics.

This is a special interview edition, and I have with us today, Carrie Gress.

She is a scholar at the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America, my alma mater, so yay, and a fellow at Ethics and Public Policy Center.

Gress is also the editor of the online women's magazine Theologyofhome.com.

I will leave a link in the show notes to that. Check it out. It's beautiful.

She has a doctorate in philosophy from the Catholic University of America and is the author of several books. Her latest is coming out this month,

The End of Woman, How Smashing the Patriarchy Destroyed Us. And my favorite little tidbit,

she's a homeschooling mother of five as well. And they live in Virginia. So,

Carrie, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me. It's great to be here.

All right. So the end of woman, I read it. I just finished it last night. And it's a great read.

It's astonishing. So if you could just share with us sort of your central thesis, elevator pitch summary, and then we'll

dig into it a little bit. Yeah. So the book is really a hard look at feminism and just a,

to focus on how it really was an ideology from the beginning and basically asking the question, how do we make women like men?

And we're seeing the natural progression of that now with the trans movement. So the book sort of

steps all the way it starts with what people would consider the earliest days of feminism,

the late 1990s, and then ends with the trans movement. And it kind of chronicles

all the steps in between that have led us to this point where, you know, we can't really

define what a woman is and we have a lot of confusion about gender and, and we're actually

trying to transition women's bodies into male bodies. So I think that's probably the quickest summary I could give about it.

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