Elizabeth

  • Do we care about mental illness?

    I’m going to ask that as a truly open-ended question. Do we, namely, (Catholic) Christian academics, care about mental illness as a serious locus theologicus, a phenomenon demanding serious theological reflection? Continue reading

  • Feminist masculinity?

    Mary Daly famously said that men would have to find their own way through and then out of patriarchy; she herself could not be bothered to tell them what to do. Her focus was on helping women connect with the… Continue reading

  • Keep Speaking Like A Woman

    …And not like a girl who is unsure of herself and her ideas, as Julia so clearly put it recently. As I am wont to do, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the academy, the growth from graduate student… Continue reading

  • How Are We All Human? Intellectual Disability and Appeals to Aquinas

    In retrospect, I would say that this is more like the draft of an article (in the sense of being overwrought and technical) than it is a suitable blog post. But here you go. You’re welcome, blog world. Introduction Apropos… Continue reading

  • Neurotic Pride and Healthy Self-Esteem!

    In some research, I came across an interesting pair of lists for evaluating whether one is crafting a healthy or a harmful way of being in the world, particularly in terms of one’s own self-relation. I will reproduce these lists… Continue reading

  • “Can you forgive?”: Augustine and Silver Linings Playbook

    I’ve been doing a frenzied amount of work on Augustine lately (surprise!). Specifically, I’ve been examining what he has to contribute to the issue of cultivating proper self-love. Despite his caricature, one in which he joyfully condemns people to hell… Continue reading

  • On the Rage of Women

    “Rage — Goddess, sing the rage of undergraduate women (and men)” That’s how that epic poem began, right? I’ve been thinking about that riff on the real opening line tonight as I return to blogging from a 6-month hiatus. You’ll… Continue reading

  • Work and Family Balance: Some Open Questions

    Last week I wrote about Anne-Marie’s Slaughter’s piece “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All.” In this post, I attempted to highlight the problematic gender assumptions undergirding Slaughter’s argument, the most important one being the uncritical claim that women qua… Continue reading

  • Feminism lied to me!

    Well, I suppose it’s time to say something about the recently penned, (in)famous Atlantic article “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All” by Anne-Marie Slaughter. In this article, Slaughter explains how, as the first female director of policy planning at the State… Continue reading