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Carrie Gress on How Feminist Movement Drew Ideology From the Occult

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🗓️ 9 August 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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INTERVIEW: The English Romantic poet Percy Shelley, who died in 1822 at age 29, played a significant role in developing the ideas of the feminist movement, author Carrie Gress says.  Ideas of the “the occult, smashing the patriarchy, and free love” played a significant role in Shelley’s writing and ideology, says Gress, author of the new book “The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us.” Shelley was a “barbaric man” who was “involved in the occult,” Gress says. His wife was Mary Shelley, author of the 1818 novel “Frankenstein,” she notes, and Shelley drew on the ideas of her parents—a vision of a “women’s revolution where there’s no monogamy, there’s no marriage, all of these things are just erased, and people just live this bucolic life without any reference to their human nature.”  Shelley’s ideology contributed to the modern feminist movement, a movement that has led to what Gress calls “The End of Woman.” Gress, also a fellow at the Washington-based Ethics and Public Policy Center, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the history of feminism and explain how the feminist movement has harmed women and left women unfulfilled. Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Daily Signal Podcast.

0:08.0

I'm Virginia Allen.

0:09.0

Today is Wednesday, August 9.

0:12.0

The feminist movement misdiagnosed what ails women and women are paying the price today.

0:19.8

That's according to author Carrie Grass.

0:22.8

Carrie is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the author of the new book

0:28.5

The End of Woman, how smashing the patriarchy has destroyed us.

0:34.4

In the book, Carrie goes all the way back to the roots of the feminist movement in the

0:38.5

1700s and discusses the life of the woman who's considered to be the first feminist, Mary

0:45.2

Woolstonecraft.

0:46.9

And she guides us through in her writing all the way through to present day to how the

0:51.6

feminist movement is connected to what we're seeing in the transgender movement and so

0:57.2

many of the issues that ails our society.

1:01.4

Her book is out on August 15th, it's available for pre-order now and she joins us on the

1:07.1

show today to explain truly how the feminist movement led to the end of woman.

1:14.4

But before we get to my conversation with Carrie Grass, I want to tell you all about one

1:18.2

of our other podcasts from the Heritage Foundation Podcast Network.

1:22.6

We have to sometimes ask the question, how do you take America back?

1:26.5

Well, it starts with ideas, ideas we take on offense to reclaim America.

1:33.8

That's why I can't recommend the Kevin Roberts Show highly enough.

1:37.9

It's a deep dive on how critical issues that plague our nation plus conversations with

1:43.4

high profile guests from across the movement.

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