A Topic of Moral Theology

The Emancipation of Women

The social, economic and physiological 'emancipation' of the wife as an attack on conjugal order — what the Encyclical condemns and what true elevation of woman it approves.

In the index as Emancipation · Woman · Women

In the manuals

Summa of Moral Theology (Summa Theologiae Moralis)

Vol. II, Part Second. On the Precep…, Book Fourth. On the Fourth…, Question Second. On Obliga…, On the Emancipation of Women, nn. 285 & 286 (2 passages — hover a number to read it)

Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)

Vol. I, Bk. II, Tr. II, Diss. I, Pt. IV, Sect. III, Scholion. On the Emancipation of Women, n. 718 — I. Moderns distinguish a threefold emancipation of women: physiological, economic, and social: physiological, insofar as women wish, by their own free will, to be freed or to be free from the burdens of a wife, whether c… Read in context →

What Is Marriage? A Catechism Arranged According to the Encyclical “Casti Connubii” of Pope Pius XI

Vermeersch, What Is Marriage?, Part Two: The Attack on Ma…, The Campaign Against Conjugal Fidelity, nn. 133, 134, 135 & 136 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)

Treated under the broader heading Morality in Marriage — McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884) · Vermeersch, On Chastity · Merkelbach, Pastoral Questions · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae Moralis · Marc, Institutiones Morales · Konings, Theologia Moralis · Merkelbach, Summa Theologiae Moralis · Sabetti-Barrett, Compendium of Moral Theology · Clark, New Questions, Old Answers · Concina, Compendium — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)