G&T: DALY Flashcards
What does Daly state about God?
“If God is male, then male is God”.
What is religion/christianity used for according to Daly?
Tool to enforce this oppression with one patriarchal divine person who combines combines sexism, racism and classism.
What do the Bible and popular images of God spawn?
Spawned the oppression of women.
What is tertullian?
Saw women as “the devil’s gateway” responsible for the fall.
What does Augustine suggest?
Women were not made in the image of God.
What did Aquinas see women as?
ill-concived males.
What does Luther suggest about Adam?
Was lord of all and Eve spoiled this.
What does Daly believe needs to be removed?
The old androcentric language - remove ‘God as father’.
What does Daly accuse Bonhoeffer of?
Insisting that women are subject to their husbands.
What does Daly accused Barth of?
Claiming women are subordinate to men.
What is Fletcher accused of?
Making a male made theory focusing on individualism rather than liberation of women.
What is ‘Rapism’?
A culture of rape.
What does Daly call leaders of society?
‘Sovereigns of Sado’
What do the professionals and media do?
Erase female power and oppress them in a state of ‘grateful’ dead.
What else enforces this idea of ‘grateful dead’?
Systematic act of physical violence towards women - genital mutilation, foot binding etc.
What is ‘armchair rape’?
Men who commit rape through pornography and metaphorically rapping women.
What example from Judges does Daly give?
“I will bring them out to you now, and you can use them and do to them whatever you wish”.
What were the three elements of the unholy trinity?
- Genocide
- War
- Rape
What did Daly say about patriarchy and the unholy trinity of genocide?
“Patriarchy possessed women … lulled into a sleeping death”.
What did Daly believe there was a link between?
Rape and genocide.
What did Daly state about a raped individual?
A raped person is no longer an individual but is instead part of a group of ‘raped people’.
How does Daly support the idea of a raped individual losing their individuality?
An expression of the dominant group.
Why does genocide happen according to Daly?
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.
What link does Daly form between rape and war?
The mentality of rape and the phenomenon of war.
What example does Daly give of rape and war?
Hundreds of thousands of Bengali women being raped by West Pakistani soldiers in 1971.
What link does Daly create between rape, war and the Bible?
Moses is enraged after a campaign against Midein because the commanders had spared the lives of all women.
What does Daly believe about language?
Language has corrupted when killing a human in war is ‘just’ but killing an unborn foetus in abortion is ‘unjust’.
What does Daly believe we should focus on instead of maleness?
‘Quintessence’
What is ‘quintessence’?
Highest essence of being which lives, loves and creates.
What was there a renewed interest in in the 1970s?
Pagan spirituality and nature worship - links to the Gaia hypothesis.
What did she call women to ignore?
The oppressive taboos of patriarchy and connect with their wild side, embracing paganism and witchcraft.
What is war defended by?
‘Phallic morality’ and ‘phallic mentality’.
What does it mean to be female?
“To be deviant by definition in the prevailing culture”.
What does Chan say in criticism of Daly’s view of God?
It is not as simple as saying ‘God is male’.
What does Chan argue about the Christian idea of fatherhood?
As embodied in the Trinity is unique.
What does Chan believe Daly glosses over?
The focus that God is the Heavenly Father and creator of all = universal fatherhood.
