Catholic Feminism | Erika Bachiochi

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🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In this lecture, Erika Bachiochi discusses Catholic feminism, her encounter with St. John Paul II's Theology of the Body and her subsequent intellectual journey, and the historical roots of feminism in Christian thought, particularly focusing on the views of early feminists on abortion and chastity.

This lecture was given on October 29th, 2024, at Benedictine College.

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About the Speaker:

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.

Keywords: Abortion, Catholic Feminism, Chastity, Christian Feminism, Elizabeth Blackwell, Evangelium Vitae, First Wave Feminism, John Paul II, Rights Of Women, Theology Of The Body

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1:01.0	When I was invited to speak here on Catholic feminism, I experienced something of a mental whiplash. I have been studying and thinking and writing and speaking on this
1:12.5	theme in one way or another for more than 20 years. But the context in the world, but also in the
1:18.6	church too, has shifted markedly over these two decades. So before getting into the meat of my talk,
1:25.6	I want to share a bit of my own story,
1:27.9	the inspiration for my work in this area, some signs of hope, and some strange new currents.
1:34.7	So as one who was baptized Catholic as an infant, but then remained virtually un-catechized in a
1:41.7	family rent by three divorces, I experienced a profound reversion while
1:48.6	a student at the very liberal New England or Vermont School Middlebury College.
1:53.9	So I was a progressive pro-choice feminist early in college and I volunteered for my then-congressman
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