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By Carrie Gress, The Catholic Thing, Oct. 9, 2023

Carrie Gress has a doctorate in philosophy from The Catholic University of America. She is the editor-in-chief of Theology of Home and the author of several books, including The Marian OptionThe Anti-Mary Exposed, and co-authot of Theology of Home. She is also a homeschooling mother of five and a homemaker. Her new book is The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us.

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I’d heard it so many times, I scarcely thought I needed to research it. The well-worn refrain said that feminism hadn’t always been bad. The first wave was good. I decided to go look for myself just to check the box and confirm that what I’d always heard was in fact true.

Astonishingly, I discovered that all was not so rosy in feminism’s first wave. What I thought would take two days of work for my book, The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us, quickly turned into months. The deeper I dug, the worse it got.

Three essential elements to a full understanding emerged: the occult, radical egalitarianism of the sexes (which later morphed into smashing the patriarchy), and free love. What I discovered was that not only was the first wave clearly an anti-Christian ideology, but it planted the seeds for what would later become an even more sinister form of ideology. …

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