The title screen from the April 20 online presentation, How Fluid Are We? Gender, the Body, and Us given by Dr. Angela Franks, a professor of theology at St. John s Seminary. Pilot screen capture
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BRIGHTON What is fluidity, and why is it so highly valued in the current culture particularly in connection to gender? These were some of the questions that Dr. Angela Franks, professor of theology at St. John s Seminary, addressed on April 20 in a webinar presentation entitled How Fluid Are We? Gender, the Body, and Us.
Drawing on Scripture, philosophy, and sociology, Franks presented a big picture concerning our cultural love of fluidity by closely examining the term itself.
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Sex, Gender and a Whole Lot of Confusion 04/12/2021 at 1:37 AM Posted by Kevin Edward White
A conversation with Catholic literary scholar and former postmodern feminist Abigail Favale.
Jonathan Liedl, National Catholic Register, April 12, 2021
Deep confusion about sexual identity is a seeming cornerstone of contemporary society, plaguing not only our institutions and laws, but, sadly, the lived experiences of many. But according to Abigail Favale, a deeper linguistic confusion undergirds much of our inability to make sense of who we are in a way that fully integrates all the factors, including our bodies.
In fact, in an important 2019 piece for Church Life Journal entitled “The Eclipse of Sex by the Rise of Gender,” Favale argues that a widespread cultural neglect of our sexed bodies and inherent procreative potential as the basis for the distinction between men and women and therefore for a person’s own sexual identity is the source of many societal ills toda