S2 Ep1003: #1003 - Gender Ideologies, Feminism, and the Catholic Church: Dr. Abigail Favale
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🗓️ 29 August 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Abigail has a fascinating story! Conservartive evangelical turned Christian feminist, turned third wave post-modern (practailly agnostic) feminist, turned catholic wife and mother–all while being a robust scholar of gender theory and theolgoy. We talk about all things related to gender, feminism (all 3 waves), transgender ideologies, the Catholic Church, and everything in-between.
Abigail Favale, Ph.D., is a writer, professor, and speaker. She has an academic background in gender studies and feminist literary criticism, and now writes and speaks regularly on topics related to women and gender from a Catholic perspective. Her latest book The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory was just released in June 2022 by Ignatius Press.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of Theology in the Rob. My guest today is Dr. Abigail |
| 0:05.1 | Favalli. Dr. Favalli is a writer and professor in the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the |
| 0:10.2 | University of Notre Dame where she just recently got hired. She has written for the Atlantic First |
| 0:16.2 | Things Church Life. She's written her first book is Into the Deep and Unlikely Catholic Conversion |
| 0:22.8 | and her most recent book, which was just recently published this July, is The Genesis of Gender, |
| 0:28.8 | a Christian theory. And that's the launching point for our conversation. We talk about her |
| 0:34.8 | expertise in the concept of gender. We also talk about her journey into and out of third wave |
| 0:43.2 | feminism. And we go in a lot of details about what that even means, what's the difference between |
| 0:47.8 | first, second and third wave feminism and why she used to buy into some of that and then now |
| 0:53.0 | no longer does. And we also talk about her conversion to the Catholic Church. So please welcome back |
| 0:58.4 | to the show for the second time. Be one or only Dr. Abigail Favalli. |
| 1:10.8 | Thanks so much for coming back on the show. There's two kind of big topics I want to talk about. |
| 1:16.8 | First of all, you just released your book. Is this your first book or first popular level book? |
| 1:23.1 | It's my second popular level. I have an academic book that was like my dissertation, which |
| 1:28.7 | shall not be named, nor just kidding, but I'm not going to like plug that right now. I did write a |
| 1:34.0 | memoir about my conversion to Catholicism in 2018. So that was my first kind of popular book, |
| 1:39.7 | and then this is my second. So this book, The Genesis of Gender, a Christian theory, which the last |
| 1:45.0 | podcast we did we talked all about a gender and really enjoyed that conversation. I also, |
| 1:50.9 | I did want to hear about in more detail why you left feminism. And that's not even the right way |
| 1:56.7 | frame in it because it's like what, you know, what kind of feminism are we even talking about, |
| 2:01.9 | you know, but I kind of want to do both. But let's start with your book. What tell us, give us |
| 2:07.2 | this elevator pitch of what your book is all about. I'm sure I'll have several questions |
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