In this Book
- The Mary Daly Reader
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: NYU Press
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.
Table of Contents
- Biographical Sketch
- pp. xv-xx
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xxi-xxii
- Editors’ Note
- pp. xxiii-xxiv
- Part I. Winds of Change (to 1971)
- pp. 11-12
- 1. The Case against the Church
- pp. 13-17
- 3. The Pedestal Peddlars
- pp. 25-32
- 7. After the Death of God the Father
- pp. 58-90
- 8. Beyond Good and Evil
- pp. 91-94
- 11. Antichurch and the Sounds of Silence
- pp. 109-112
- 13. Preface to Gyn/Ecology
- pp. 124-130
- 15. Secular S and M
- pp. 163-166
- 17. Prelude to the Third Passage
- pp. 190-196
- 18. Newspeak versus New Words
- pp. 197-201
- 19. Sparking: The Fire of Female Friendship
- pp. 202-205
- 20. The Dissembly of Exorcism
- pp. 206-209
- 21. Daly on Matilda Joslyn Gage
- pp. 210-215
- 22. On Lust and the Lusty
- pp. 216-227
- 23. Metaphors of Metabeing
- pp. 228-234
- 25. Restoration and the Problem of Memory
- pp. 246-249
- 26. Phallic Power of Absence
- pp. 250-255
- 27. Realizing Reason
- pp. 256-271
- 28. The Raging Race
- pp. 272-274
- 29. From “Justice” to Nemesis
- pp. 275-286
- 33. The Dream of Green
- pp. 304-307
- 34. The Anti-Modernist Oath
- pp. 308-310
- 36. The Time of the Tigers
- pp. 319-323
- 37. Re-Calling My Lesbian Identity
- pp. 324-326
- 38. Some Be-Musing Moments
- pp. 327-329
- 40. Classroom Teaching of Women and of Men
- pp. 334-336
- 41. On How I Jumped over the Moon
- pp. 337-343
- 42. Magnetic Courage
- pp. 344-351
- 43. Quintessence: The Music of the Spheres
- pp. 352-354
- Works by Mary Daly: A Bibliography
- pp. 415-420
- Secondary Sources on Mary Daly
- pp. 421-434
- About the Author
- pp. 451-452
- About the Editors
- p. 453