Not counting women and children: looking for the gender subtext in Laudato Si’

Abstract

Pope Francis' Encyclical Laudato Si' (praise be to You) has become an unavoidable reference in contemporary debates on the ecological issue because it is a text that makes a well-founded diagnosis of the global crisis situation that the world is going through and make important proposals for the face. Dialogue text and open to dialogue, however, this opening does not concern women, as it reproduces the traditional view of them, a view that sees them, but does not take them into account, as the title chosen for this work points out, where the intention is to map, in the Encyclical, the traits that demonstrate that it did not count on women, rather it ignored them or resumed doctrinal perspectives that secondaryize them and diminish their social and ontological value, ignoring, thus, the decades of debates that women, inside and outside the Church, have developed around what it means to be a woman.