Mary Daly è stata una filosofa e teologa femminista radicale che si descrisse come una 'femminista lesbica radicale'. Ha insegnato al Boston College, un'istituzione gesuita, per 33 anni, ritirandosi infine dopo aver violato le politiche universitarie negando l'ammissione agli studenti maschi nei suoi corsi avanzati di studi sulle donne. Sebbene abbia permesso agli uomini di frequentare le classi introduttive e li abbia tutorati privatamente per studi avanzati, la sua posizione ha evidenziato il suo approccio intransigente alla ricerca femminista. Il lavoro di Daly approfondisce la filosofia e la teologia femminista radicale.
The battle for legal contraception challenged key tenets of Irish identity: Catholicism, large families, traditional gender roles, and sexual puritanism. It is a story of gender, religion, social change, and failing efforts to reaffirm Irish moral exceptionalism.
This philosophical autobiography of the world's foremost radical feminist philosopher offers an imaginative chronicle of Mary Daly's voyage. Daly sees her work as that of a pirate, righteously plundering treasures of knowledge that have been stolen and hidden from women. In this inventive blend of autobiography and visionary philosophy, she reveals her struggles to smuggle back these treasures and to distinguish them from their mindbinding trappings. Outercourse brilliantly recounts Daly's debunking of patriarchal thought and blazes new paths to freedom by enabling women to discover the hidden connections that make sense of their lives.
'Certainly one of the most promising theological statements of our time.' --The Christian Century'Not for the timid, this brilliant book calls for nothing short of the overthrow of patriarchy itself.' --The Village Voice
Mary Dalys Buch besteht aus drei Passagen. In der ersten beschreibt sie die Wirkung alter und neuer Mythen auf das Selbst der Frauen. In der zweiten untersucht sie die frauenzerstörerischen Praktiken aus verschiedenen Zeiten und Kulturräumen: Witwenverbrennung in Indien, Füßeeinbinden in China, Genitalverstümmelungen in Afrika, Hexenverbrennungen in Europa, moderne amerikanische Gynäkologie und Nazi-Medizin. In der dritten Passage benennt Mary Daly die Gegenkräfte, die Frauen entwickeln können: Sprühen im Sinn von Funkenschlagen - Das Feuer der Frauenfreundschaft; Spinnen im mythischen Sinn des Wortes - neue Zeiten/Räume spinnen.
