The Mary Daly Reader

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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. Cover THE MARY DALY READER Title Copyright Dedication 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