G&T: DALY

Question 1

What does Daly state about God?

Answer 1

“If God is male, then male is God”.

Question 2

What is religion/christianity used for according to Daly?

Answer 2

Tool to enforce this oppression with one patriarchal divine person who combines combines sexism, racism and classism.

Question 3

What do the Bible and popular images of God spawn?

Answer 3

Spawned the oppression of women.

Question 4

What is tertullian?

Answer 4

Saw women as “the devil’s gateway” responsible for the fall.

Question 5

What does Augustine suggest?

Answer 5

Women were not made in the image of God.

Question 6

What did Aquinas see women as?

Answer 6

ill-concived males.

Question 7

What does Luther suggest about Adam?

Answer 7

Was lord of all and Eve spoiled this.

Question 8

What does Daly believe needs to be removed?

Answer 8

The old androcentric language - remove ‘God as father’.

Question 9

What does Daly accuse Bonhoeffer of?

Answer 9

Insisting that women are subject to their husbands.

Question 10

What does Daly accused Barth of?

Answer 10

Claiming women are subordinate to men.

Question 11

What is Fletcher accused of?

Answer 11

Making a male made theory focusing on individualism rather than liberation of women.

Question 12

What is ‘Rapism’?

Answer 12

A culture of rape.

Question 13

What does Daly call leaders of society?

Answer 13

‘Sovereigns of Sado’

Question 14

What do the professionals and media do?

Answer 14

Erase female power and oppress them in a state of ‘grateful’ dead.

Question 15

What else enforces this idea of ‘grateful dead’?

Answer 15

Systematic act of physical violence towards women - genital mutilation, foot binding etc.

Question 16

What is ‘armchair rape’?

Answer 16

Men who commit rape through pornography and metaphorically rapping women.

Question 17

What example from Judges does Daly give?

Answer 17

“I will bring them out to you now, and you can use them and do to them whatever you wish”.

Question 18

What were the three elements of the unholy trinity?

Answer 18

• Genocide
• War
• Rape

Question 19

What did Daly say about patriarchy and the unholy trinity of genocide?

Answer 19

“Patriarchy possessed women … lulled into a sleeping death”.

Question 20

What did Daly believe there was a link between?

Answer 20

Rape and genocide.

Question 21

What did Daly state about a raped individual?

Answer 21

A raped person is no longer an individual but is instead part of a group of ‘raped people’.

Question 22

How does Daly support the idea of a raped individual losing their individuality?

Answer 22

An expression of the dominant group.

Question 23

Why does genocide happen according to Daly?

Answer 23

Because of the need of men for violence and so rape can be seen as genocide - the ‘killing’ of an individual and the becoming a victim of rape.

Question 24

What link does Daly form between rape and war?

Answer 24

The mentality of rape and the phenomenon of war.

Question 25

What example does Daly give of rape and war?

Answer 25

Hundreds of thousands of Bengali women being raped by West Pakistani soldiers in 1971.

Question 26

What link does Daly create between rape, war and the Bible?

Answer 26

Moses is enraged after a campaign against Midein because the commanders had spared the lives of all women.

Question 27

What does Daly believe about language?

Answer 27

Language has corrupted when killing a human in war is ‘just’ but killing an unborn foetus in abortion is ‘unjust’.

Question 28

What does Daly believe we should focus on instead of maleness?

Answer 28

‘Quintessence’

Question 29

What is ‘quintessence’?

Answer 29

Highest essence of being which lives, loves and creates.

Question 30

What was there a renewed interest in in the 1970s?

Answer 30

Pagan spirituality and nature worship - links to the Gaia hypothesis.

Question 31

What did she call women to ignore?

Answer 31

The oppressive taboos of patriarchy and connect with their wild side, embracing paganism and witchcraft.

Question 32

What is war defended by?

Answer 32

‘Phallic morality’ and ‘phallic mentality’.

Question 33

What does it mean to be female?

Answer 33

“To be deviant by definition in the prevailing culture”.

Question 34

What does Chan say in criticism of Daly’s view of God?

Answer 34

It is not as simple as saying ‘God is male’.

Question 35

What does Chan argue about the Christian idea of fatherhood?

Answer 35

As embodied in the Trinity is unique.

Question 36

What does Chan believe Daly glosses over?

Answer 36

The focus that God is the Heavenly Father and creator of all = universal fatherhood.