The Church and the Second Sex

by Mary Daly

Overview

First published in 1968, The Church and the Second Sex represents one of the most important critiques of sexism in the Christian tradition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807011010
Publisher:	Beacon Press
Publication date:	01/03/1986
Edition description:	REVISED
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.52(d)

About the Author

Mary Daly (1928–2010) was a world-renowned radical feminist philosopher who held doctorates in theology and philosophy from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. Her groundbreaking books include Church and Second Sex, Beyond God the Father, Gyn/Ecology, Pure Lust, Websters' First New Intergalatic Wickedary of the English Languague (Conjured in Cahoots with Jane Caputi), and Outercourse.

Table of Contents

	New Archaic Afterwords	xi
	Autobiographical Preface to the 1975 Edition	5
	Feminist Postchristian Introduction	15
Chapter 1	The Case Against the Church	53
Chapter 2	History: A Record of Contradictions	74
Chapter 3	Winds of Change	118
Chapter 4	The Pedestal Peddlars	147
Chapter 5	The Demon of Sexual Prejudice: An Exercise in Exorcism	166
Chapter 6	Theological Roots of the Problem: Radical Surgery Required	179
Chapter 7	Toward Partnership: Some Modest Proposals	192
	Conclusion: The Second Sex and the Seeds of Transcendence	220
	Index	225

Editorial Reviews

'A hard-hitting, highly original, and even revolutionary book unmasking the latent anti-feminism in so much Catholic thinking and practice.' —Thomas Merton

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