feminism unmodified discourses on life and law

I’ve dubbed this fightback “reactionary feminism.” I use “reactionary” in recognition that “progress” in its contemporary form wages war on human nature. This is an order that’s been marching under the banner of “feminism,” but is better understood as a profoundly anti-women libertarianism of the body. When we put these together, they form the backbone of a micro-scale, women-led fightback against the atomized, dehumanized, and commodified transhumanist social order under which we’ve all been living for half a century. And this goes for men as well as women.Īnd three: close to the heart of modern women’s dissociation from our own bodies, and the countless forms of exploitation that follow from this, is a technology that was sold as emancipatory to us: the Pill. Two: co-ed social life has lots to offer, but there are times when single-sex social spaces are important. Unless you’re very rich raising kids in this atomized context, marriage is not the misogynist option but the pro-women one. It’s the minimum unit for human-scale solidarity. One: if you want to be a mother, marriage is not a patriarchal institution designed to oppress you. These are simple if counter-cultural principles in today’s atomized world.

In the end I gave up trying to please everyone, and just made three arguments I wish someone had offered me when I was university age, so I wouldn’t have needed to spend the following fifteen years reverse-engineering them from first principles, and sustaining a great many scars in the process.

When you start suggesting policies, someone is bound to hate it. One of the things I discovered when writing Feminism Against Progress is that it’s much easier to make a critique than to suggest what to do about it. Later this week, we will publish their responses. and featured remarks from Alexandra DeSanctis, Christine Emba, and Leah Libresco Sargeant.

The panel was co-hosted by Public Discourse and the Catholic Information Center in Washington, D.C. Editor’s note: Below is a lightly edited transcript of Mary Harrington’s remarks at a recent event on her new book, Feminism Against Progress ( Regnery 2023).

Feminism unmodified discourses on life and law