Authors: Mary Daly
ISBN-13: 9780807011010, ISBN-10: 0807011010
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon
Date Published: January 1986
Edition: 1st Edition
Mary Daly is the passionately acclaimed, sometimes denounced, and always controversial radical feminist "philosopher, theologian, mythologist, explorer, pirate, warrior, witch, fairy and leprechaun" (The New York Times Book Review), whose writing is "alive with creative energy, impelled by an urgency of vision and infused with the 'outlandish reality that is present in everyday occurrences'" (Mary Jo Weaver, The New York Times Book Review). Her "feminist fire and brimstone . . . shocks and angers us to a new edge of feminism" (Valerie Miner, San Francisco Chronicle). Daly is professor of theology at Boston College.
First published in 1968, The Church and the Second Sex represents one of the most important critiques of sexism in the Christian tradition.
New Archaic Afterwords | xi | |
Autobiographical Preface to the 1975 Edition | 5 | |
Feminist Postchristian Introduction | 15 | |
Chapter 1 | The Case Against the Church | 53 |
Chapter 2 | History: A Record of Contradictions | 74 |
Chapter 3 | Winds of Change | 118 |
Chapter 4 | The Pedestal Peddlars | 147 |
Chapter 5 | The Demon of Sexual Prejudice: An Exercise in Exorcism | 166 |
Chapter 6 | Theological Roots of the Problem: Radical Surgery Required | 179 |
Chapter 7 | Toward Partnership: Some Modest Proposals | 192 |
Conclusion: The Second Sex and the Seeds of Transcendence | 220 | |
Index | 225 |