Feminism - Daly

Question 1

what type of feminist is Daly?

Answer 1

post Christian radical feminist

Question 2

what does it mean to be a post Christian radical feminist?

Answer 2

Views the church as a major source of a abuse of women throughout history. Believes feminist’s can retain Christian values but does not believe in the traditional values. we need to completely rebuild society.
Thinks that men and women should abandon Christianity to exorcise the demons out of the patriarchy and follow the spiritual forces within nature

Question 3

how Did Daly view lesbianism?

Answer 3

Heterosexual relationships disempower women and thus women are more empowered in lesbian relationships
men are inherently aggressive whilst women are caring

Question 4

what does Daly mean by Be-ing

Answer 4

biblical language is androcentric
so we should castrate God as a being and view him as be-ing
he is something people do
so we can embrace them spiritually
this allows us to challenge systems of oppression of jsut being the way things are and instead they re something we conform and adhere to
which encourages change and liberation form the opressisve phalocentric forces in society

Question 5

what is the unholy trinity and what was it caused by?

Answer 5

the unholy trinity consists of war rape and genocide and is a result of the global celebration of phallocentric power (PP) . Men have unmerited privilege and power which has led them to feel entitled to partake in ‘rape culture’ and subdue women.

Question 6

Sodom and Gomorrah

Answer 6

men come to house a house requesting for the man but the owner of the house offers his virgin daughter and concubine of his male guest instead to beaten and raped

Question 7

who are armchair rapists?

Answer 7

these are men who get pleasure from rape stories and abuse of women as it reinforces their sense of power and domination

Question 8

how does genocide coincide with rape for Daly?

Answer 8

both equally objectify their victims and the object is not seen as a person but a means

Question 9

how does war fit into the trinity for Daly?

Answer 9

in society there is a ‘phallic mentality’ that leads to violence and war which we need to step away from. Men often defend war in the guise of necessity and then deprive people of abortion and euthanasia as an attempt to maintain their power.

Question 10

what is the gender caste system?

Answer 10

men are given an unequal large proportion of power which is reinforced through social and cultural constructs from birth, giving men the power to treat women as slaves. Sadly this is accepted at the norm.

Question 11

what is transvaluation?

Answer 11

Society is under imprisonment and requires a complete re-evaluation of existing values like Nietzsche she argued the death of God and christianity is necessary to do this

Question 12

what is the passive self?

Answer 12

apollonian

Question 13

what is the energetic creative self?

Answer 13

dionysian

Question 14

for daly who can only be truly dionysian?

Answer 14

women

Question 15

what is the apollonian veil?

Answer 15

falsely created ideas , in which women believe, that prevent women from growing into their natural dionysian self. Only women can remove this veil

Question 16

what is the foreground for daly?

Answer 16

false patriarchal world which is sucking the life out of women and nature

Question 17

who are snools?

Answer 17

men in power

Question 18

who are henchwomen ?

Answer 18

women who gain power from snools and buy into patriarchy instead of reaching for liberation and transvaluation

Question 19

If god is…

Answer 19

male then male is God

Question 20

what is the antichurch for Daly?

Answer 20

women need to unite and form a sisterhood that stands in opposition to the traditional church. They should explore eOld Religion

Question 21

who can be spiritual for Daly?

Answer 21

only women through a process of self-realisation. Foreground world displays male centred, false image that opresses women unknowingly. In films and songs.

Question 22

what did Daly say about nature and women?

Answer 22

Earlier times women had achieved a spiritual relationship with nature which has been tarnished through patriarchal schemes using the justification of God.
male domination is responsible for degrading the created world and must be replaced through femenism which will provide human flourishment as well as natural

Question 23

what did Daly think about language and God?

Answer 23

it is not sufficient to present God in female terms such as God/Goddess
since it would still be male in essence - lip service
God has been male for too long we cannot just accept this and make him a her
God needs to be castrated through the reformulation of language

Question 24

why could Dalys view of men being aggressive and competitive be harmful?

Answer 24

she is posing gender essentialism through defining men as ontologically aggressive, this perhaps polarises gender and doesn’t create equality. This view could also reinforce phallocentric power if men are being told it is a part of their very being then there is nothing they could do about it.

Question 25

Why is radical lesbian feminism limited?

Answer 25

women can autonomously choose to be with a man and we should not exclude these women from feminism but empower women for whoever they choose to date.

Question 26

what did Annette Baier argue?

Answer 26

developed virtue ethics and believed both men and women are motivated by different virtues. But women’s virtues have been overlooked. A union of these virtues is necessary so each each gender morality

Question 27

what was hampsons view and does it agree with Daly?

Answer 27

Hampson argued that Christianity is innately misogynistic and rooted in a patriarchal world hence cannot be reformed.
The scriptural roots, which are from the past, are incompatible with modern day feminism.
This supports Daly

Question 28

how could Kraemer support Daly?

Answer 28

As an exclusivist , he would argued that the whole system of the Bible should be understood and from doing this it is clear it is more sexist than not. Since it was written by men as well we cannot simply refer to God as a woman but we should completley reevaluate the Bible.

Question 29

how could Bonhoeffer go against Daly?

Answer 29

Whilst there should be no rusty swords left in the bible we can discern Gods will in modern day to understand morality transvaluation is not necessary

Question 30

why do some feminists see a problem with the idea of a transcendent God?

Answer 30

possibly belief in a god who is totally different from the world is a major cause of sexism

this is because belief in a transcendent creator creates a master-slave relationship which reinforces patriarchal hierarchy

Question 31

whilst daly seems radical what is her pressing issue with religion?

Answer 31

what she rejected was really the formal institutional religion model and its doctrines and forms of control

she believes these doctrines have been developed by men to favour men

so much that even calling god female would not change his male essence

Question 32

what does transvaluation require?

Answer 32

complete castration of God

aboloshing God and all ideas surrouding them to be replaced with authentic human existnce

Question 33

what is the patrairchal world categorised into?

Answer 33

the foreground and background

Question 34

what effect has a male God had?

Answer 34

‘if God is male, then male is God’
it has made males feel as only them can be powerful and as part of the imago dei are closer to God.

This is a false spirituality the maleness of God is an invention of the patriarchy

Question 35

Deuteronomy 21

Answer 35

it states that after a victory in war, soldiers are free to take one of the defeated enemy’s women as a wife