Mary Daly - Definition and Overview

Mary Daly (born 1928) is a radical feminist theologian, a mother of modern feminist theology. She has doctorates in theology and philosophy from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. A former Catholic theologian and nun, she taught at Boston College for 33 years.

This feminist icon has provoked strong reactions of both love and hate for her outspoken views. She has been accused of sexism and discrimination (for refusing in some public forum situations to take questions from men), advocating "gendercide", and of course heresy.

Bibliography

• Quintessence: Realizing the Outrageous Contagious Courage of Women. A Radical Elemental Feminist Manifesto. Beacon Press, 1998.

• Websters' First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language. (with Jane Caputi and Sudie Rakusin) Harper, 1994.

• Outercourse: The Bedazzling Voyage Containing Recollections from My Logbook of a Radical Feminist Philosopher. Harper, 1992.

• Pure Lust: Elemental Feminist Philosophy. Harper, 1992.

• Gyn/ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism. Beacon Press. 1990 ISBN 0807014133

• The Church and the Second Sex. Harper & Row, 1968. Reprint: Beacon Press, 1985.

• Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation. Beacon Press, 1973.

• Natural Knowledge of God in the Philosophy of Jacques Maritain. Officium Libri Catholici, 1966.

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External links

• http://www.mdaly.com/
• http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/Daly.html
• http://cat.nyu.edu/wickedary/dalyinfo.html
• Controversy surrounding Daly (http://www.feminista.com/archives/v2n10/wilson.html)