num_pages: 484
description: This revised edition includes a New Intergalactic Introduction by the Author.Mary Daly's New Intergalactic Introduction explores her process as a Crafty Pirate on the Journey of Writing Gyn/Ecology and reveals the autobiographical context of this "Thunderbolt of Rage" that she first hurled against the patriarchs in 1979 and no hurls again in the Re-Surging Movement of Radical Feminism in the Be-Dazzling Nineties.Theologian/philosopher Daly (The Church &amp; the 2nd Sex, Rev. '75; Beyond God the Father, '73) has written "an extremist book...on the edge of a culture that is killing itself." Conceived as a radical feminist "Voyage" of woman becoming herself, it's made up of three "Passages." The 1st denounces the reversals &amp; deceptions ("mind pollution") of patriarchal disciplines (including "Godfather" theology) &amp; exuberantly sets out to "discover" the true "Croneology" behind that male mystification. The 2nd, "the most somber part of the Journey," analyzes Goddess-murder (and the murder of the Goddess in every woman) thru the "Sado-Rituals" of five specific historic atrocities: Indian suttee, Chinese footbinding, African genital mutilation, European witchburning, &amp; American gynecology &amp; psychotherapy (gynecology of the mind practiced by the-rapists). Following this "exorcism," the Voyager moves in the 3rd Passage to the Otherworld of lesbian-feminist Spinsters who successfully scorn patriarchal intimidation ("Spooking"), stir "the fire of female friendship" ("Sparking"), &amp;--after a rip-roaring "Unraveling" gotterdammerung--joyously spin on as Revolting Hags. En route Daly purposefully busts out of some traditional (male) forms &amp; language. Altho the word-work of the "living/verbing writer" sometimes gets in the way/weigh of flashing in-sights, a painstaking indictment of scholarly "erasure" of historic events &amp; some bone-chilling facts of women's story, Daly's excursion is bound to inspire Spinsters/Spider Women everywhere &amp; to leave just about everyone else haggard &amp; in-fury-ated.--Kirkus (edited)
language: English
title: Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism
titlecomplete: Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism
genres: Gender, Womens Studies, History, Politics, Philosophy, Religion, Theory, Womens, Nonfiction, Feminism
ratings_count: 1513
publisher: Beacon Press