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The Church and the Second Sex » (1st Edition)

Book cover image of The Church and the Second Sex by Mary Daly

Authors: Mary Daly
ISBN-13: 9780807011010, ISBN-10: 0807011010
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon
Date Published: January 1986
Edition: 1st Edition

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Author Biography: Mary Daly

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.

Book Synopsis

First published in 1968, The Church and the Second Sex represents one of the most important critiques of sexism in the Christian tradition.

Table of Contents

New Archaic Afterwordsxi
Autobiographical Preface to the 1975 Edition5
Feminist Postchristian Introduction15
Chapter 1The Case Against the Church53
Chapter 2History: A Record of Contradictions74
Chapter 3Winds of Change118
Chapter 4The Pedestal Peddlars147
Chapter 5The Demon of Sexual Prejudice: An Exercise in Exorcism166
Chapter 6Theological Roots of the Problem: Radical Surgery Required179
Chapter 7Toward Partnership: Some Modest Proposals192
Conclusion: The Second Sex and the Seeds of Transcendence220
Index225

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