Danielle Huntley ’06 (right) majored in philosophy and will attend Boston College Law School this fall.
“Radical Love, Feminist Questions Revisited: The Thought of Simone de Beauvoir and John Paul II”
Marina McCoy, assistant professor, philosophy department
“Danielle argues that Pope John Paul II’s thought, particularly in his Theology of the Body and “On the Dignity and Vocation of Women,” is a viable feminist response to ‘the woman problem’ as set out by Simone de Beauvoir. While both thinkers view the problem in terms of the social treatment of woman as an object or ‘other,’ John Paul argues that the equality and dignity of women as persons is also compatible with and even requires a valuation of femininity and motherhood in physical and spiritual senses. Danielle’s scholarship examines John Paul’s thought with depth, precision, and sensitivity.”