Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Mary Daly
Standard Name: Daly, Mary
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Textual Features | Isak Dinesen | In this spare, beautifully written, and highly selective account, |
Literary responses | Michèle Roberts | The Times Literary Supplement reviewer, Laura Marcus
, saw the influence of Mary Daly
in MR
's text. Praising the book, she cited its full [and] resonant prose,and its use of language and myth, which... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Monica Furlong | This book reflects MF
's wide reading and an impish sense of humour employed to help her and her readers live with the unacceptable. Each chapter comes headed by a very funny cartoon and a... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Adrienne Rich | AR
argues here that the period spent in a woman's womb is the single common experience that all human beings possess, but that childbearing and motherhood, like other women's work and relationsips, are nevertheless devalued... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Adrienne Rich | AR
's delineation of a lesbian continuum . . . of woman-identified experience Rich, Adrienne. Blood, Bread, and Poetry. Norton. 51 |
Timeline
1968: Mary Daly, an academic at the Jesuit-run...
Writing climate item
1968
Mary Daly
, an academic at the Jesuit-run Boston College
, published the first of her works in feministtheology, The Church and the Second Sex, an analysis of Roman Catholic
and, more broadly, Christian
thinking about women.
1973: US feminist theologian Mary Daly published...
Writing climate item
1973
US feministtheologianMary Daly
published Beyond God the Father, which she called a self-conferred diploma marking her graduation from the Catholic church.
1978: US feminist theologian Mary Daly published...
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1978
US feministtheologianMary Daly
published her best-known work, Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism, which among other things addresses the misogynist assumptions ingrained within language.
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