S8 Ep886: Sex, Gender, and the Anthropology of Trans* Identities: Dr. Abigail Favale
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🗓️ 22 July 2021
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Abigail and I talk about all things related to gender, postmodern feminism, and the ontology of trans* identities. We discuss the meaning of sex and gender, the relationship between body and soul, the possibility of an intersex condition of the brain, whether brains are male and female, intersex conditions, gender stereotypes, and how all of this relatest to the anthropological understnading of trans* experiences.
Dr. Favale is dean of the College of Humanities and Associate Professor of English at George Fox University. She graduated from George Fox University with a philosophy degree in 2005, and went on to complete her doctorate at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where her dissertation was granted the Samuel Rutherford Prize for the most distinguished thesis in English literature.
Dr. Favale is an active writer in multiple genres. Her literary criticism has appeared in various academic journals and essay collections. In 2017, she was awarded the J.F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction. A lifelong Christian, Favale entered the Catholic Church in 2014, and her memoir about this transition, Into the Deep, is forthcoming from Cascade Books.
Dr. Favale’s first book, Irigaray, Incarnation and Contemporary Women’s Fiction(Bloomsbury 2013), examines religious themes in the work of contemporary women novelists. This book was awarded the 2014 Feminist and Women's Studies Association Book Prize. Abigail has also written short fiction for several literary journals, such as The Potomac Review, Talking River Review, zaum and Melusine. In 2013, Abigail was a regular online contributor on gender-related issues for The Atlantic Monthly; her essays have also appeared in First Things, PopMatters and Geez Magazine.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. You are in for a treat. I have on the show today, |
| 0:03.7 | they wanted only Dr. Abigail Favoli, who is the Dean of the College of Humanities at George |
| 0:09.3 | Fox University. She's also the Associate Professor of English, and she used to be in charge of |
| 0:15.0 | the Honors Program at George Fox University, which is a very prestigious and rigorous program |
| 0:22.8 | over there at George Fox in Oregon. Her first first book is titled, I'm going to butcher this, |
| 0:29.1 | Ira Guerre, Incarnation and Contemporary Women's Fiction, which was published in 2013, |
| 0:35.2 | and this book was awarded the 2014 Feminist and Women's Studies Association book prize. |
| 0:43.3 | Abigail has an interesting story. PhD from St. Andrews went full on into what she would call postmodern |
| 0:50.4 | feminism, had a faith crisis, and ended up being converted to Catholicism, and she is now a |
| 0:57.4 | faithful Catholic Christian and an amazing thinker. I had a, I mean, as I said at the end, |
| 1:03.8 | well, I don't know if I said it online, maybe I said it offline, that this conversation I feel like |
| 1:10.1 | maybe more for me than anybody like Abigail is so knowledgeable in things like gender theory, |
| 1:15.9 | postmodern feminism, sex and gender conversations as they pertain to trans |
| 1:22.0 | approaches to Christian anthropology, sex soul theories and brain sex theories and masculinity |
| 1:30.0 | and femininity, and I know some of those words might make sense to you. Hopefully some of you are |
| 1:35.0 | interested in some of the things we talk about. We do try to keep it somewhat down to earth, |
| 1:39.1 | but we do get pretty deep on some of these topics. So at the end of the conversation, I'm just like, |
| 1:43.8 | man, I hope people benefit from this. For me, this was just a stimulating conversation, |
| 1:50.0 | and I hope you benefit from it as well. We dig into, yeah, the meaning of sex and gender, |
| 1:55.8 | and various other things that kind of flow from that. So I haven't talked to Abigail before |
| 2:01.2 | this episode. This was kind of us getting to know each other, and I, man, she's super awesome. |
| 2:06.0 | So so excited for you to engage this conversation. If you would like to support the show, you can go |
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