2 - Intermediate
- Gender and SexualityThe Genesis of Gender
Abigail Favale
In this book, Abigail Favale moves the reader from the feminist movement’s various waves (beginning in the 1910s) up to the present day. In this book, she shows how the modern gender paradigm has led to such intense confusion on the subject of what a woman even is, or whether they even really exist. We read this book each year in apologetics, and it seems overly enthusiastic to say that as of 2024, I have now read this book five times. Favale is a Roman Catholic, and so she quotes the Pope frequently, speaks of things being sacramental that aren’t actually sacraments, and talks a lot about the Virgin Mary. Even still, this is the best book written from someone who was inside the feminist movement before eventually seeing its dead end. This book will inform you both on the subject of feminism, but especially transgenderism.