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Mary Daly
October 16, 1928 – January 3, 2010
“Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.”
Radical feminist philosopher, academic, author and theologian.
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Photo 1. Mary Daly circa 1970. Photo 2. Mary Daly holds a double-headed ax, a symbol that modern-day feminists link to Amazon warriors and lesbian and feminist strength. Daly repeatedly challenged the Boston College establishment until a legal case led to her retirement. (Photo by Gail Bryan)
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More About Mary:
- Obituary
- Feminist Theologian Mary Daly Remembered, NPR, All Things Considered, January 5, 2010
- The Radical Feminist Philosophy of Mary Daly, Justine Durrell
- Tribute to Mary Daly, Waterwheel, a Quarterly Newsletter of the Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual, 2010
- Interview with Mary Daly on KDVS, April 5 2006
- Mary Daly papers, Sophia Smith Collection of Women’s History
- Mary Daly’s profile on LGBTQ Religious Archives Network
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America, pages 106 – 107
- Wikipedia
- Books and Selected writings by Mary Daly
- The Church and the Second Sex. Harper & Row, 1968.
- The Spiritual Dimension of Women’s Liberation. In Notes From The Third Year: Women’s Liberation, 1971.
- A Call for the Castration of Sexist Religion. In The Unitarian Universalist Christian27 (Autumn/Winter 1972), pp. 23–37.
- Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women’s Liberation. Beacon Press, 1973.
- God Is A Verb. In Ms., (Dec., 1974), pp. 58–62, 96-98.
- Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism. Beacon Press, 1978.
- Prelude to the First Passage. In Feminist Studies, vol. 4, no. 3 (Oct., 1978), pp. 81–86.
- Pure Lust: Elemental Feminist Philosophy. Beacon Press, 1984.
- Websters’ First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language, Conjured in Cahoots with Jane Caputi(with Jane Caputi and Sudie Rakusin). Beacon Press, 1987.
- Outercourse: The Bedazzling Voyage, Containing Recollections from My Logbook of a Radical Feminist Philosopher. Harper San Francisco, 1992.
- Sin Big. In The New Yorker(Feb 26 & Mar 4, 1996), pp. 76–84.
- Quintessence… Realizing the Archaic Future: A Radical Elemental Feminist Manifesto. Beacon Press, 1998.
- Amazon Grace: Re-Calling the Courage to Sin Big. Palgrave Macmillan, 1st ed. Jan. 2006.