The Mary Daly Reader
Makes key excerpts from Daly's work accessible to readers who are seeking to access the essence of her thought in a single volume.

Outrageous, 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 reader offers a vital introduction to the core of Daly’s work and the complexities secreted away in the pages of her books. Her major theories—Bio-philia, Be-ing as Verb, and the life force within words—and major controversies—relating to race, transgender identity, and separatism—are all covered, and the editors have provided introductions to each selection for context.

The text has been crafted to be accessible to a broad readership, without diluting Daly’s witty but complicated vocabulary. Begun in collaboration with Daly while she was still alive, and completed after her death in 2010, the chapters in this book will surprise even those who thought they knew her work. They contain highlights from Mary Daly’s published works over a forty-year span, including her major books Beyond God the Father, Gyn/Ecology, and Pure Lust, as well as smaller articles and excerpts, with additional contributions from Robin Morgan and Mary E. Hunt.

Perfect for those seeking an introduction to this path-breaking feminist thinker, The Mary Daly Reader makes key excerpts from her work accessible to new readers as well as those already familiar with her work who are seeking to access the essence of her thought in a single volume.

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The Mary Daly Reader
Makes key excerpts from Daly's work accessible to readers who are seeking to access the essence of her thought in a single volume.

Outrageous, 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 reader offers a vital introduction to the core of Daly’s work and the complexities secreted away in the pages of her books. Her major theories—Bio-philia, Be-ing as Verb, and the life force within words—and major controversies—relating to race, transgender identity, and separatism—are all covered, and the editors have provided introductions to each selection for context.

The text has been crafted to be accessible to a broad readership, without diluting Daly’s witty but complicated vocabulary. Begun in collaboration with Daly while she was still alive, and completed after her death in 2010, the chapters in this book will surprise even those who thought they knew her work. They contain highlights from Mary Daly’s published works over a forty-year span, including her major books Beyond God the Father, Gyn/Ecology, and Pure Lust, as well as smaller articles and excerpts, with additional contributions from Robin Morgan and Mary E. Hunt.

Perfect for those seeking an introduction to this path-breaking feminist thinker, The Mary Daly Reader makes key excerpts from her work accessible to new readers as well as those already familiar with her work who are seeking to access the essence of her thought in a single volume.

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Makes key excerpts from Daly's work accessible to readers who are seeking to access the essence of her thought in a single volume.

Outrageous, 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 reader offers a vital introduction to the core of Daly’s work and the complexities secreted away in the pages of her books. Her major theories—Bio-philia, Be-ing as Verb, and the life force within words—and major controversies—relating to race, transgender identity, and separatism—are all covered, and the editors have provided introductions to each selection for context.

The text has been crafted to be accessible to a broad readership, without diluting Daly’s witty but complicated vocabulary. Begun in collaboration with Daly while she was still alive, and completed after her death in 2010, the chapters in this book will surprise even those who thought they knew her work. They contain highlights from Mary Daly’s published works over a forty-year span, including her major books Beyond God the Father, Gyn/Ecology, and Pure Lust, as well as smaller articles and excerpts, with additional contributions from Robin Morgan and Mary E. Hunt.

Perfect for those seeking an introduction to this path-breaking feminist thinker, The Mary Daly Reader makes key excerpts from her work accessible to new readers as well as those already familiar with her work who are seeking to access the essence of her thought in a single volume.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781479877768
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 01/24/2017
Pages: 464
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Mary Daly (1928-2010) was an American radical feminist philosopher, academic, and theologian. She taught at Boston College for 33 years.

Robin Morgan is the editor of Sisterhood Is Powerful, named “One of the 100 most influential Books of the 20th Century” by the New York Public Library.

Mary E. Hunt is Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER).

Jennifer Rycenga is Professor Emerita of Comparative Religious Studies at San José State University. She is the author of the forthcoming Schooling the Nation, on white abolitionist educator Prudence Crandall and her black students (2024), and coeditor of our The Mary Daly Reader (2016), as well as coeditor of Frontline Feminisms (Routledge, 2000) and Queering the Popular Pitch (Routledge, 2006).

Linda Barufaldi is a lifelong radical feminist activist who has worked in the peace, civil rights, women’s, LGBT and environmental movements.

Table of Contents

Preface Robin Morgan xi

Biographical Sketch Mary E. Hunt xv

Acknowledgments xxi

Editors' Note xxiii

Introduction: A Kick in the Imagination Jennifer Rycenga Linda Barufaldi 1

Part I Winds of Change (To 1971) 11

1 The Case against the Church 13

2 Christian History: A Record of Contradictions 18

3 The Pedestal Peddlars 25

4 The Second Sex and the Seeds of Transcendence 33

Part II From God to Be-Ing (1972-1974) 37

5 The Women's Movement: An Exodus Community 39

6 The Problem, the Purpose, the Method 47

7 After the Death of God the Father 58

8 Beyond Good and Evil 91

9 The Second Coming of Women and the Antichrist 95

10 The Bonds of Freedom: Sisterhood as Antichurch 99

11 Antichurch and the Sounds of Silence 109

12 The Final Cause, the Future, and the End of the Looking Glass War 113

Part III The Double-Edged Labrys Of Outrageous/Outraged Philosophy (1975-1984) 121

13 Preface to Gyn/Ecology 124

14 The Metapatriarcfial Journey of Exorcism and Ecstasy 131

15 Secular S and M 163

16 African Genital Mutilation: The Unspeakable Atrocities 167

17 Prelude to the Third Passage 190

18 Newspeak versus New Words 197

19 Sparking: The Fire of Female Friendship 202

20 The Dissembly of Exorcism 206

21 Daly on Matilda Joslyn Gage 210

22 On Lust and the Lusty 216

23 Metaphors of Metabeing 228

24 Beyond the Sado-Sublime: Exorcising Archetypes, Evoking the Archimage 235

25 Restoration and the Problem of Memory 246

26 Phallic Power of Absence 250

27 Realizing Reason 256

28 The Raging Race 272

29 From "Justice" to Nemesis 275

30 The "Soul" as Metaphor for Telic Principle 287

31 Be-Friending: The Lust to Share Happiness 291

Part IV Spiraling Onward (1985-2010): Future and Past Piratical Coursing 299

32 Early Moments: My Taboo-Breaking Quest-To Be a Philosopher 301

33 The Dream of Green 304

34 The Anti-Modernist Oath 308

35 My Doctoral Dissertation in Philosophy: Paradoxes 311

36 The Time of the Tigers 319

37 Re-Calling My Lesbian Identity 324

38 Some Be-Musing Moments 327

39 The Fathers' Follies: Denial of Full Professorship 330

40 Classroom Teaching of Women and of Men 334

41 On How I Jumped over the Moon 337

42 Magnetic Courage 344

43 Quintessence: The Music of the Spheres 352

44 A Heightened Experience of Losing and Finding (Response to Audre Lorde) 355

45 What Terrific Shock Will Be Shocking Enough? 360

Notes 371

Works by Mary Daly: A Bibliography 415

Secondary Sources on Mary Daly 421

Index 435

About the Author 451

About the Editors 453

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