A Catholic feminist perspective on care - with Erika Bachiochi

About this episode

The episode explores the intersection of Catholic feminism and contemporary debates on care and gender with guest Erika Bachiochi.

What can the ideas of an eighteenth-century feminist thinker contribute to contemporary debates around gender and care? How should law and social policy support caregivers and create a better balance between care, work and family life? Is Catholic feminism a contradiction in terms - and if not, what's distinctive about the perspective that it offers on care? These are some of the questions we discuss in this episode, with Erika Bachiochi. Erika is an American legal scholar who works at the intersection of constitutional law, political theory, women’s history, and Catholic social teaching. She is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center - and Professor of Practice and Director of the Mercy Otis Warren Initiative at the School of Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University, where she also serves as Editor-in-Chief of the online journal, Fairer Disputations . A 2018 visiting scholar at Harvard Law School, Erika is a Senior Fellow at the Abigail Adams Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she founded the Wollstonecraft Project . Erika received a B.A. from Middlebury College in 1996, an M.A. in theology as a Bradley Fellow from the Institute for…

People in this episode

Host: Martin Robb

Guest: Erika Bachiochi

Topics covered

• Catholic feminism
• gender and care
• law and social policy
• caregivers
• work-life balance
• women's history

Keywords

• Catholic feminism
• care
• gender
• law
• social policy
• Erika Bachiochi
• work-life balance
• women's history

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Ethics and Public Policy Center, Arizona State University, Fairer Disputations, Harvard Law School, Abigail Adams Institute, St. Benedict’s

Places: Massachusetts, Cambridge

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