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About The Book
Feminism Doesn’t Empower Women. It Erases Them.
The bestselling author of Theology of Home, Carrie Gress shows that fifty years of radical feminism have solidified the primacy of the traditionally male sphere of life and devalued the attributes, virtues, and strengths of women.
Feminism, the ideology dedicated to "smashing the patriarchy," has instead made male lives the norm for everyone. After fifty years of radical feminism, we can’t even define "woman." In this powerful new book, Carrie Gress says what cannot be said: feminism has abolished women.
Hulking "trans women" thrash female athletes. Mothers abort their baby girls. Drag queens perform obscene parodies of women. Females are enslaved for men's pleasure—or they enslave themselves. Feminism doesn’t avert these tragedies; it encourages them. The carefree binge of self-absorption has left women exploited, unhappy, dependent on the state, and at war with men. And still, feminists cling to their illusions of liberation.
But there are real answers. Real answers for real women. Carrie Gress—a wife, mother, and philosopher—punctures the myth of feminism, exposing its legacy of abuse, abandonment, and anarchy. From the serpent’s seduction of Eve to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to Kate Millett’s lust, violence, and insanity to Meghan Markle’s havoc-ridden rise to royalty, Gress presents a history as intriguing as the characters who lived it. The answers women most desperately need, she concludes, are to be found precisely where they are most afraid to look.
Only a rediscovery of true womanhood—and motherhood—can pull our society back from the brink. And happiness is possible only if women are open to making peace with men, with children, with God, and—no less difficult—with themselves. For feminism’s victims, Gress is a welcoming voice in the darkness: The door is open. The lights are on. Come home.
The bestselling author of Theology of Home, Carrie Gress shows that fifty years of radical feminism have solidified the primacy of the traditionally male sphere of life and devalued the attributes, virtues, and strengths of women.
Feminism, the ideology dedicated to "smashing the patriarchy," has instead made male lives the norm for everyone. After fifty years of radical feminism, we can’t even define "woman." In this powerful new book, Carrie Gress says what cannot be said: feminism has abolished women.
Hulking "trans women" thrash female athletes. Mothers abort their baby girls. Drag queens perform obscene parodies of women. Females are enslaved for men's pleasure—or they enslave themselves. Feminism doesn’t avert these tragedies; it encourages them. The carefree binge of self-absorption has left women exploited, unhappy, dependent on the state, and at war with men. And still, feminists cling to their illusions of liberation.
But there are real answers. Real answers for real women. Carrie Gress—a wife, mother, and philosopher—punctures the myth of feminism, exposing its legacy of abuse, abandonment, and anarchy. From the serpent’s seduction of Eve to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to Kate Millett’s lust, violence, and insanity to Meghan Markle’s havoc-ridden rise to royalty, Gress presents a history as intriguing as the characters who lived it. The answers women most desperately need, she concludes, are to be found precisely where they are most afraid to look.
Only a rediscovery of true womanhood—and motherhood—can pull our society back from the brink. And happiness is possible only if women are open to making peace with men, with children, with God, and—no less difficult—with themselves. For feminism’s victims, Gress is a welcoming voice in the darkness: The door is open. The lights are on. Come home.
Product Details
- Publisher: Regnery (August 15, 2023)
- Length: 256 pages
- ISBN13: 9781684514359
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Raves and Reviews
"Whereas second wave feminists made popular the notion that 'the personal is political,' Carrie Gress gracefully yet unflinchingly demonstrates in The End of Woman that, for the women who made feminism, the political is deeply personal. We would be remiss to ignore the decadence, dysfunction, and depression that followed so many their whole lives long, and equally silly to imagine that these personal tragedies had no bearing on the ideas they very successfully memed into the reality of modern life. This excellent book is for anyone who has known the tragedy of living by lies, and who earnestly wants to see the truth, no matter how unpopular it may have become."
—Helen Roy, contributing editor at The American Mind
"Carrie Gress is a powerhouse, a quiet powerhouse who spends her days changing the culture. She believes in the power of beautiful objects to change the world, and she believes in making the public case for a proper understanding of womanhood which she has done beautifully in her new book, The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy has Destroyed Us. Carrie Gress has opened up an important new debate."
—Austin Ruse, president of the Center for Family & Human Rights (C-Fam), and author of Under Siege: No Finer Time to be a Faithful Catholic.
“An eloquent clarion call to restore women to their rightful and essential place in society.”
—Peachy Keenan, author of Domestic Extremist: A Practical Guide to Winning the Culture War
"Beautifully written and empathetic, it argues that we accept the things we cannot change about our human vulnerability while pointing the way to making sure women are respected and cared for. A first-rate work.”
—Mark Judge, author of The Devil’s Triangle
“This cautionary tale is all we need to break with the feminist ‘brand.’ And to emerge from its confines, Gress suggests something both simple and radical: let women be women, particularly in our self-sacrificial love as mothers.”
—Andrea Picciotti-Bayer, director of the Conscience Project and mother of ten
“Carrie Gress is a brilliant woman and fearless writer.”
—Paul Kengor, professor of political science, Grove City College, and editor of the American Spectator
“The End of Woman is an insanely intelligent and vital book on why destroying womanhood and manhood hasn’t made anyone happy—and never will.”
—Kimberly Ells, author of The Invincible Family: Why the Global Campaign to Crush Motherhood and Fatherhood Can't Win
“My hope is for men and women to read The End of Woman with a heart open to see the reality of what secular feminism has done to our society. . . . This is a must read.”
—Abby Johnson, former Planned Parenthood clinic director and current CEO of And Then There Were None
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