VIDEO: Erika Bachiochi on Finding Balance in Life

In this excerpt adapted from her book The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision, EPPC Fellow Erika Bachiochi writes about women’s early joint property rights claims and the value of the work of the home, tracing Mary Wollstonecraft’s argument that such work affords the character development men, women, and children need for true success in the public sphere, which provides a renewed rationale for family policy today.

The time has come instead to discard the male-normative theories of equality on which the putative right to abortion is constructed today. Instead, let’s make room, as earlier generations of women’s rights advocates did, for vulnerable and dependent children, and for the women—and men—responsible for their care.

Women and men ought to enjoy political rights by virtue of their common human nature, but such rights are not individualistic means for self-actualization.

In an interview with Fox News, EPPC Fellow Erika Bachiochi discusses her call to reimagine ‘feminism anew: a feminism in search of human excellence.’