Amazon Grace: Re-Calling the Courage to Sin Big
Daly has her reputation as a radical feminist with little patience for the foibles and menace of patriarchy to uphold, and in this incendiary tract--"a challenge and an invitation" for women and to women--she does. It is a rallying cry, a feminist manifesto, enjoining women to combat their oppressors. Employing everything from quantum theory to Thomistic philosophy, Daly argues forcefully about the dangers of patriarchy while freely acknowledging that many of her critics associate the term with "seventies feminism" and consider the entire rhetoric passe. She begs to differ and comments at length about the interconnectedness of women and ecology. The villain of her eloquent rant is George W. Bush, who she suggests epitomizes Hannah Arendt's phrase "the banality of evil" in his dangerous politics and his vacant, arrogant persona. Calling Daly strident is an understatement, yet her contentious take on the modern world deserves to be heard.June SawyersCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved