Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism {original edition} (1978)

by Mary Daly

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Includes sections on Indian suttee, Chinese footbinding, African genital mutilation, and European witchburning.

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Daly's Gyn/Ecology exposes the insidious beliefs and "customs" of global patriarchy. Daly dives into explorations of misogynist language.

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Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism {original edition}

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Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism

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1978

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Their origin and their history patriarchal poetry their origin and their history patriarchal poetry their origin and their history...

Patriarchal poetry makes no mistake... Patriarchal Poetry is the same at Patriotic poetry is the same as patriarchal poetry is the same as Patriotic poetry is the same as patriarchal poetry is the same. Patriarchal poetry is the same. -- Gertrude Stein from "Patriarchal Poetry," Bee Time Vine and Other Pieces

Their origin and their history patriarchal scholarship their origin and their history. Patriarchal scholarship makes no mistake. Patriarchal Scholarship is the same a Patriotic scholarship is the same as patriarchal scholarship is the same as patriarchal poetry. Patriarchal scholarship is the same. -- Myself, Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism

I have dreamed on this mountain/Since first I was my mother's daughter/And you can't just take my dreams away/Not with me watching. You may drive a big machine/But I was born a great big woman/And you can't just take my dreams away/Without me fighting... No you can't just take my dreams away. -- Holly Near, from "Mountain Song" sung by Meg Christian, Face the Music (Olivia Records)

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The First Passage: To my mother and foresister, Anna, whose vision extended beyond the boundaries imposed by patriarchal institutions--who always encouraged me to do my own work, and who opened the way for the Labyrinthine Journey

The Second Passage: To Jan Raymond, scholar of deepest integrity, true doctor of philosophy--trail-blazing Amazon/Searcher whose labrys/spirit awakens in other women the awareness of their own equality to the A-mazing task

The Third Passage: To Denise Connors, courageous Voyager, who has witnessed and understood--more profoundly than anyone I have known--the murder and dismemberment of the Goddess, and who survives to Re-member, Spark, and Spin

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This book is about the journey of women becoming, that is, radical feminism.

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