Published December 31, 2024
Feminism, understood as the peculiar modern ideology of the 20th century, has reached its self-destroying zenith in the erasure of woman in gender ideology and in the putative “right” to intentionally end the life of one’s developing unborn child. But this form of feminism is not worthy of the name. To fight the cultural and legal disintegration wrought by the now-hegemonic “feminism” of the 20th century, a new feminism is necessary for the 21st century: a movement that advocates for women as women, and that understands (as did the original 19th-century women’s rights movement) that rights are intrinsically linked with responsibilities.
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EPPC Fellow Erika Bachiochi is a legal scholar who works at the intersection of constitutional law, political theory, women’s history, and Catholic social teaching. She is also the editor-in-chief of Fairer Disputations, the online journal of the Mercy Otis Warren Initiative for Women in Civic Life and Thought at the School for Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at ASU. She is a 2024–25 Fellow at the Nesti Center for Faith and Culture at the University of St. Thomas (Houston) where she is teaching a women’s history course in UST’s new Catholic Women and Gender Studies Program.
