“The Occupy Wall Street movement failed because they didn’t realize just how far we needed to go. I think before we have an Occupy Wall Street movement we need to have an Occupy Ourselves movement. And that has to start with women.”

–Mary E. Harrington

Speak Life • Mar 10, 2023 Mary E. Harrington, contributing editor at UnHerd, is interviewed by Glen Scrivener about her latest book ‘Feminism Against Progress’. The Way Back is a series of interviews lighting the path back to faith. Christian author and filmmaker Glen Scrivener is speaking to a range of Christians and non-Christians about the current meaning crisis, and what we have lost in walking away from the Jesus story. In a post-Christian age, is there a way back? Presented by Glen Scrivener Music by Thomas Thorogood

Feminism Against Progress

Mary Harrington

In Feminism Against Progress, Mary Harrington argues that the industrial-era faith in progress is turning against all but a tiny elite of women. Women’s liberation was less the result of human moral progress than an effect of the material consequences of the Industrial Revolution. We’ve now left the industrial era for the age of AI, biotech and all-pervasive computing. As a result, technology is liberating us from natural limits and embodied sex differences. Although this shift benefits a small class of successful professional women, it also makes it easier to commodify women’s bodies, human intimacy and female reproductive abilities.

This is a stark warning against a dystopian future whereby poor women become little more than convenient sources of body parts to be harvested and wombs to be rented by the rich. Progress has now stopped benefiting the majority of women, and only a feminism that is sceptical of it can truly defend female interests in the 21st century.

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