The Mary Daly Reader /

The Mary Daly Reader / / Mary Daly; ed. by Jennifer Rycenga, Linda Barufaldi.

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 Wa...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DTL Humanities 2020
VerfasserIn:
Daly, Mary,
MitwirkendeR:
Barufaldi, Linda,
Hunt, Mary E.,
Morgan, Robin,
Rycenga, Jennifer,
HerausgeberIn:
Barufaldi, Linda,
Rycenga, Jennifer,
TeilnehmendeR:
Hunt, Mary E.
Morgan, Robin.
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Biographical sketch
  • Acknowledgments
  • Editors’ note
  • Introduction: A kick in the imagination
  • Part I. Winds of change (to 1971)
  • 1. The case against the church
  • 2. Christian history: A record of contradictions
  • 3. The pedestal peddlars
  • 4. The second sex and the seeds of transcendence
  • Part II. From god to be-ing (1972– 1974)
  • 5. The women’s movement: An exodus community
  • 6. The problem, the purpose, the method
  • 7. After the death of god the father
  • 8. Beyond good and evil
  • 9. The second coming of women and the antichrist
  • 10. The bonds of freedom: Sisterhood as antichurch
  • 11. Antichurch and the sounds of silence
  • 12. The final cause, the future, and the end of the looking glass war
  • Part III. The double- edged labrys of outrageous/outraged philosophy (1975– 1984)
  • 13. Preface to gyn/ecology
  • 14. The metapatriarchal journey of exorcism and ecstasy
  • 15. Secular s and m
  • 16. African genital mutilation: The unspeakable atrocities
  • 17. Prelude to the third passage
  • 18. Newspeak versus new words
  • 19. Sparking: The fire of female friendship
  • 20. The dissembly of exorcism
  • 21. Daly on Matilda Joslyn Gage
  • 22. On lust and the lusty
  • 23. Metaphors of metabeing
  • 24. Beyond the sado-sublime: exorcising archetypes, evoking the archimage
  • 25. Restoration and the problem of memory
  • 26. Phallic power of absence
  • 27. Realizing reason
  • 28. The raging race
  • 29. From “justice” to nemesis
  • 30. The “soul” as metaphor for telic principle
  • 31. Be-friending: The lust to share happiness
  • Part IV. Spiraling onward (1985– 2010): Future and past piratical coursing
  • 32. Early moments: my taboo-breaking quest—to be a philosopher
  • 33. The dream of green
  • 34. The anti-modernist oath
  • 35. My doctoral dissertation in philosophy: Paradoxes
  • 36. The Time of the Tigers
  • 37. Re- Calling My Lesbian Identity
  • 38. Some Be- Musing Moments
  • 39. The Fathers’ Follies: Denial of Full Professorship
  • 40. Classroom Teaching of Women and of Men
  • 41. On How I Jumped over the Moon
  • 42. Magnetic Courage
  • 43. Quintessence: The Music of the Spheres
  • 44. A Heightened Experience of Losing and Finding (Response to Audre Lorde)
  • 45. What Terrific Shock Will Be Shocking Enough?
  • Notes
  • Works by Mary Daly: A Bibliography
  • Secondary Sources on Mary Daly
  • Index
  • About the Author
  • About the Editors

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