Episode 428: Reactionary Feminism

In her new book, Feminism Against Progress, Mary Harrington writes about some trends in second-wave feminism that need to be contested, and argues that this modern “feminism isn’t evidence of moral progress in some absolute sense, rather it comprises the aggregate response to ways that women’s lives were transformed by the industrial revolution and, crucially, by the departure of work from the home.” She deems her arguments “reactionary feminism.”

In this episode, we talk about historical feminism, this more modern feminism of freedom (liberation from all constraints), and what the gospel has to do with it.