Female protagonists today are much more likely to be sexually-experienced and wisecracking career women. Instead of June Cleaver, we have Captain Marvel. Despite this cultural distance, though, many of Friedan’s observations still resonate today.
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Biopower's Scapegoating of the Female Body →
What is a Woman? →
The Feminine Mystique Revisited →
Andrea Long Chu Says You Are a Female, and He’s Only Partly Wrong
The woman has the spontaneous, natural power to make space for the other, which embodies the spiritual reality to which all human beings are called.
The Starved Body: Anorexia and the Fracture within the Self →
The man seems light and liquid, the woman heavy and tied down. Likewise, the anorexic strives for the light and airy. She escapes the gravity not only of her body but also of need. Ultimately, both sexual revolution and eating disorders rebel against the given, against what is inescapable. Sex creates babies. Bodies require food. But who says? The rules don’t apply to me. Modernity valorizes the independent, self-sufficient man, as he strides rationally and freely into the well-managed future of his own creation. But the cheerleaders of secularism do not seem to have reckoned with the innately destructive quality of the self that has been unleashed from any transcendent orientation.
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The reigning ideology tells us that the unkempt contours of female fertility must be scoured away by a masculine, mechanizing ideology in order to fit into the smooth cogs of the sexual revolution. But is the only paradigm that applies to female fertility one of technological “control”?
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The contraceptive mindset cannot avoid scapegoating women’s bodies as the cause of both personal and societal problems. By contrast, the Church, with critical and prophetic clarity, points out that it is selfish desire, not the female body, that is the source of our problems.
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Named "Best of The Public Discourse, 2017"
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Contraception and Catholicism
Contraception and Catholicism: What the Church Teaches and Why presents a simple yet profound explanation of Catholic teaching on contraception. Through an exploration of the meaning of sex and the effects of contraception on the culture, Contraception and Catholicism helps both undecided as well as convinced readers to understand the reasonableness of Church teaching.
Margaret Sanger's Eugenic Legacy
Margaret Sanger's Eugenic Legacy: The Control of Female Fertility definitively exposes the extensive connections between Sanger's Planned Parenthood and the eugenics movement.
Women, the Pill, and the Sexual Revolution
A book review, named in the Best of The Public Discourse of 2015
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