CV NEWS FEED // Two “strong critics of modern feminism” are set to debate what modern feminism has done “to alter the structure, function, and purpose of the ‘fundamental social unit.’
In an upcoming event sponsored by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and the Abigail Adams Institute, scholars Erika Bachiochi and Scott Yenor will “square off” on questions regarding the advantages and disadvantages of modern feminism for women and society at large:
Has feminism’s victory’s for women’s “equality” yielded strong fruits? Has progress in women’s educational and professional opportunities been beneficial to the social fabric, or even to women themselves?
Or has the “freedom to choose” eroded the family unit as more women choose to reject it? Does the solution to today’s ills involve discarding feminism, or does America need a better feminism?
Debaters at the April 3 event will attempt to answer these questions by responding directly to the development of feminism in modern history.
A legal scholar specializing in Equal Protection jurisprudence, feminist legal theory, sexual ethics, and Catholic social teaching, Bachiochi has said that she will approach the debate from the perspective that in “our post-industrial tech age,” society is in need of a feminism more closely resembling first wave, “grounded in our common rational capacities as sharers in the Imago Dei.”
Bachiochi is the founder and director of the Wollstonecraft Project, which is a center for university students “at Harvard and elsewhere” that seeks to guide, facilitate, and support scholarly engagement in questions of sexual equality and freedom, as philosophically informed by realist metaphysics, virtue-based ethics, and understanding of rights grounded in responsibilities.”
Bachiochi’s most recent book, The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision, was published by Notre Dame Press in 2021. She is also a current fellow at Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) in Washington, DC.
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