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About Abigail Favale, Ph.D.
Abigail Favale, Ph.D., is a writer and professor in the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame. Her award-winning work has appeared in The Atlantic, First Things, Church Life, and various literary and academic journals. She is the author of the memoir Into the Deep: An Unlikely Catholic Conversion (Cascade, 2018) and the forthcoming The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory (Ignatius Press, 2022). Abigail and her husband have four children.
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Ask Your Husband is a superficial, ideological, and incoherent “guide”

March 13, 2022 Abigail Favale, Ph.D. 301

Reading Stephanie C. Gordon’s Ask Your Husband: A Catholic Guide to Femininity feels like a meandering stroll down a familiar lane. I was raised in conservative evangelicalism, and Gordon echoes many of the messages I […]

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