Mary Daly Flashcards

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Unholy Trinity?

A

Rape
Genocide
War

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Rape

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Erasing female power/autonomy.
Not just seen as a physical act but a metaphorical one.
All forms of silencing women.

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“Arm chair Rapists”

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Those who watch porn are metaphorically raping women.
Men are using porn to enhance their power over women.
Daly Thought.

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4
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War

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Daly argued war was inevitable as a result of male-dominated politics.
She claimed war was defended by “phallic morality” and “phallic mentality”

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5
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Daly’s Religion

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Essentially Paganism.
Daly replaced the patriarchal God with ‘Quintessence’ as the spirit that permeates all nature, giving life and vitality to the universe.

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6
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Daly “If God is male then,…

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male is God”

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7
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Daly was…

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A post-Christian feminist theologian.
Claiming patriarchy has a foundation in Christianity that cannot be removed.
God the father has caused oppression i.e. His heaven, his people, his ministers.

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8
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Daly - “God should be…

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…castrated”

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