The Mary Daly reader /
"Utrageous, humorous, inflammatory, Amazonian, intellectual, provocative, controversial, and a discoverer of Feminist word-magic, Mary Daly's influence on Second Wave feminism was enormous. She burst through constraints to articulate new ways of being female and alive. This comprehensive r...
Saved in:
| Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Other Authors: | , , , |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | New York : New York University Press, [2017] |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Preface / Robin Morgan
- Biographical sketch / Mary E. Hunt
- Introduction: A kick in the imagination
- Part 1. Winds of change (to 1971). The case against the church ; Christian history: a record of contradictions ; The pedestal peddlars ; The second sex and the seeds of transcendence
- Part 2. From God to be-ing (1972-1974). The women's movement: an Exodus community ; The problem, the purpose, the method ; After the death of God the Father ; Beyond good and evil ; The second coming of women and the antichrist ; The bonds of freedom: sisterhood as antichurch ; Antichurch and the sounds of silence ; The final cause, the future, and the end of the looking glass war
- Part 3. The double-edged labrys of outrageous/outraged philosophy (1975-1984). Preface to gyn/ecology ; The metapatriarchal journey of exorcism and ecstasy ; Secular s and m ; African genital mutilation: the unspeakable atrocities ; Prelude to the third passage ; Newspeak versus new words ; Sparking: the fire of female friendship ; The dissembly of exorcism ; Daly on Matilda Joslyn Gage ; On lust and the lusty ; Metaphors of metabeing ; Beyond the sado-sublime: exorcising archetypes, evoking the archimage ; Restoration and the problem of memory ; Phallic power of absence ; Realizing reason ; The raging race ; From "justice" to nemesis ; The "soul" as metaphor for telic principle ; Be-friending: the lust to share happiness
- Part 4. Spiraling onward (1985-2010): Future and past piratical coursing. Early moments: my taboo-breaking quest
- to be a philosopher ; The dream of green ; The anti-modernist oath ; My doctoral dissertation in philosophy: paradoxes ; The time of the tigers ; Re-calling my lesbian identity ; Some be-musing moments ; The fathers' follies: denial of full professorship ; Classroom teaching of women and of men ; On how I jumped over the moon ; Magnetic courage ; Quintessence: the music of the spheres ; A heightened experience of losing and finding (response to Audre Lorde) ; What terrific shock will be shocking enough?