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Feminist Interpretations of Mary Daly

Edited by Marilyn Frye (NHC Fellow, 1997–98) and Sarah Lucia Hoagland

Feminism; Philosophers; Colonialism; Mary Daly

University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000

From the publisher’s description:

This open-ended anthology is a journey into the very canon that Mary Daly has argued to be patriarchal and demeaning to women. This volume deauthorizes the official canon of Western philosophy and disrupts a related story told by some feminists who claim that Daly’s work is unworthy of re-reading because it contains fatal errors. The editors and contributors attempt to prove that Mary Daly is located in the Western intellectual tradition. Daly may be highly critical of conventional Western epistemological and theological traditions, but she nevertheless appropriates themes “out-of-context” for the building of her own systematic philosophy.

Subjects
Philosophy / Gender and Sexuality / Feminism / Philosophers / Colonialism / Mary Daly /

Frye, Marilyn (NHC Fellow, 1997–98), ed. Feminist Interpretations of Mary Daly. Edited by Marilyn Frye and Sarah Lucia Hoagland. Re-Reading the Canon. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000.