By Mary Daly,Jennifer Rycenga,Linda Barufaldi,Robin Morgan,Mary E. Hunt

Makes key excerpts from Daly's paintings available to readers who're trying to entry the essence of her notion in one volume. 

 

Outrageous, funny, inflammatory, Amazonian, highbrow, provocative, arguable, and a discoverer of Feminist word-magic, Mary Daly’s impression on moment Wave feminism used to be huge, immense. She burst via constraints to articulate new methods of being woman and alive. This accomplished reader deals an essential advent to the middle of Daly’s paintings and the  complexities secreted away within the pages of her books. Her significant theories—Bio-philia, Be-ing as Verb, and the lifestyles strength inside words—and significant controversies—relating to race, transgender identification, and separatism—are all coated, and the editors have supplied introductions to every choice for context.  

The textual content has been crafted to be obtainable to a vast readership, with out diluting Daly’s witty yet advanced vocabulary. started in collaboration with Daly whereas she used to be nonetheless alive, and accomplished after her demise in 2010, the chapters during this booklet will shock even those that proposal they knew her paintings. They comprise highlights from Mary Daly’s released works over a forty-year span, together with her significant books Beyond God the Father, Gyn/Ecology, and Pure Lust, in addition to smaller articles and excerpts, with extra contributions from Robin Morgan and Mary E. Hunt.  

Perfect for these looking an advent to this path-breaking feminist philosopher, The Mary Daly Reader makes key excerpts from her paintings available to new readers in addition to these already acquainted with her paintings who're looking to entry the essence of her notion in one volume.

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