PURE LUST
Elemental Feminist Philosophy
Mary Daly
'Mary Daly is probably the most important Radical Feminist thinker around; she is also a writer of flamboyant brilliance'
Sara Maitland, New Statesman
'Mary Daly is an extraordinary woman and this is an extraordinary work, demanding unusual spiritual and intellectual effort from its readers. The effort is worth it'
New York Times Book Review
Mary Daly is one of the most exhilarating and imaginative feminist thinkers of our time. She is also a raging Fury, a Nag-Hag, a Crone. In Pure Lust - which is the female lust for change, as opposed to Cockocracy, the Phallic State - she extends the 'deviant philosophy' developed in her classic Gyn/Ecology.
She refers to Websters' First Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language inorder to deconstruct/reconstruct our speech and expose the assumptions behind our thought processes. She unvoers the patriarchal reversals that have made us the inheritors of a belief system of the absurd, in which jesus is manifested as a male peudo-goddess and the Pope as a male Great Mother. She exhorts us to the Vourage to Sin, to break outof the guilt and fear in which the male sadosociety entraps us and to dis-cover the States of Natural Grace.
Mary Daly
is a voyager, moving beyond the imprisoning mental, physical, emotional, spiritual walls of the State of Possession; a Positively Revolying hag, repelling the forces of patriarchy; and a Crafty Pirate, Righteously Plundering the treasures of knowledge that have been stolen and hidden fom women and struggling to SMuggle these back in such a way that they can be seen as distinct from the mind-binding trappings.
She holds seven degrees, and is the author of The Church and the Second Sex; Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation; Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism; Websters' First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language (Conjured in cahoots with Jane Caputi); Outercourse: the Be-Dazzling Voyage and Quintessence... Realizing the Archaic Future: A Radical Elemental Feminist Manifesto.
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