Mary Daly

Standard Name: Daly, Mary

Connections

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Intertextuality and Influence	Adrienne Rich	AR 's delineation of a lesbian continuum . . . of woman-identified experience Rich, Adrienne. Blood, Bread, and Poetry. Norton, 1986. 51 became one of her most controversial and influential theories. Rejecting established definitions of lesbianism as pathology, she means to acknowledge the...
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...
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...
Textual Features	Isak Dinesen	In this spare, beautifully written, and highly selective account, Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. ID presents herself as a modern European who sees in the life of primitive peoples interacting with the soil, vegetation, animals and weather around them the...

Timeline

1968

Mary Daly , an academic at the Jesuit-run Boston College , published the first of her works in feminist theology, The Church and the Second Sex, an analysis of Roman Catholic and, more broadly,...

1973

US feminist theologian Mary Daly published Beyond God the Father, which she called a self-conferred diploma marking her graduation from the Catholic church.

Sturgis, Susanna J. “Mary Daly, Revolting Hag”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.

, No. 3, May–June 2010, pp. 30-1.

1978

US feminist theologian Mary Daly published her best-known work, Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism, which among other things addresses the misogynist assumptions ingrained within language.

Sturgis, Susanna J. “Mary Daly, Revolting Hag”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.

, No. 3, May–June 2010, pp. 30-1.

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