New Feminism as a Response to the Modern Crisis of Community
New Feminism as a Response to the Modern Crisis of Community

Summary/Abstract: The article presents and analyzes a number of chosen major arguments of the New Feminists which base their theories on John Paul II’s theological anthropology of sexuality and theology of woman. The New Feminism is a kind of personalist humanism which centers its attention on the human person realizing his or her nature within relations of personal self-giving. Assumptions of male and female equality, difference, and complementarity together with the specific female sensitivity towards the human and relationships form the basis for the New Feminist theoretical argumentation and practical postulates. The New Feminism is also a theologically inspired social response to the modern crisis of community and the deficit of affirmation of values such as person or human relations. By offering a serious correction or completion of the modern perspective of freedom and independence with its vision of fulfillment of freedom by love, the New Feminism seems to constitute a necessary kind of social philosophy which does not try to substitute the one-sided concept of freedom with any equally one-sided view of the social bond or addiction to others, but it rather attempts at the reconciliation of values which seem to be complementary.

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