Female He Created Them Podcast

KT & Mary
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  • Philosophy
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Welcome to Female He Created them—a podcast about women in the Christian intellectual tradition. femalehecreatedthem.substack.com

  1. 2d ago

    Rights vs. Responsibilities: The Care Ethic and the Moral Development of Girls

    In this episode, KT and Mary discuss In A Different Voice (1982), the pioneering work of Carol Gilligan, who is credited as one of the originators of feminist psychology. The book examines the moral development of children and young adults, arguing that girls/women generally follow a distinct trajectory from that which had been put forward by Freud and others as the ‘standard’ (male) trajectory: identity formation through separation, the glorious achievement, a focus on moral rules and personal rights, which finally reaches maturity in a turn to generosity through intimate relationship. Girls, she argues, instead find their identity through attachments and generosity marks an earlier stage. Girls are not done developing when they orient morality around responsibility to others, but when they realize the self is also a person who matters. This point can only be reached through a crisis wherein she must rise above a feeling of helplessness to make an important choice. Ultimately, both paths reach a maturity which requires integrating the fundamental insight of the other—the value of self and our responsibilities. Thus, the paths are complementarity and in full human maturity should result in the sexes helping each other—women helping men to see their responsibilities and men helping women see that they, too, are a person who has rights. Get full access to Female He Created Them at femalehecreatedthem.substack.com/subscribe

  2. Aug 19

    Leah Libresco Sargeant/The Dignity of Dependence

    We’re back! In this episode, Mary and KT discuss Leah Libresco Sargeant’s new(ish) book The Dignity of Dependence. Topics include reflections on whether the world is the wrong shape for women and a philosophical anthropology that is expansive enough for all people at all stages of life, irrespective of sex, age, temporary or permanent disability, sickness, left-handedness, etc. Plus some irresponsible thoughts about basketball. Other references: Collaborators and Privates - Eurydice Lives A Message for Girls about Womanhood - Pamela Paul Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious - Ross Douthat The Religious Potential of the Child - Sofia Cavaletti Get full access to Female He Created Them at femalehecreatedthem.substack.com/subscribe

  3. May 27

    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 by Carolyn Walker Bynum Sick Societies by Robert Edgerton - Psmith review of the same Diagnosing Social Pathology by Frederik Neuhouser The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan The Dignity of Dependence by Leah Libresco Sargeant - Other Feminisms substack 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

    Our Bookshelf

  4. May 13

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

    In this episode, Mary and KT discuss Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum Novarum, 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

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

  5. Apr 29

    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 The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability by Elizabeth Barnes Essays on Woman by Edith Stein Edith Stein episode Get full access to Female He Created Them at femalehecreatedthem.substack.com/subscribe

    A. G. Sertillanges OP/The Intellectual Life

  6. Apr 15

    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

    Women at the Resurrection

  7. Apr 1

    The Maturation of Mutual Submission

    In this episode, Mary and KT discuss "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

    The Maturation of Mutual Submission

  8. Mar 18

    Rethinking Complementarity: From Stereotypes to Icons/Abigail Favale

    In this episode, Mary and KT discussed Abigail Favale's article "Rethinking Complementarity: From Stereotypes to Icons." Topics include what are sex-predictive traits and the aggregate versus the particular, stereotypes based on the statistical extreme making the average woman/man feel like a misfit, accounting for virtue and acknowledging how men and women experience the world differently. Other references: Episode on JPII's Letter to Women Episode on the Eternal Woman Episode on The Genesis of Gender Get full access to Female He Created Them at femalehecreatedthem.substack.com/subscribe

    Rethinking Complementarity: From Stereotypes to Icons/Abigail Favale
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Welcome to Female He Created them—a podcast about women in the Christian intellectual tradition. femalehecreatedthem.substack.com

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  • Creator
    KT & Mary
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    35
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Katherine Brizek & Mary Tillotson
  • Show Website
    Female He Created Them Podcast