Mary Daly Reader

Mary Daly (1928-2010) was an American radical feminist philosopher, academic, and theologian. She taught at Boston College for 33 years.Robin Morgan is the editor of Sisterhood Is Powerful, named "One of the 100 most influential Books of the 20th Century" by the New York Public Library.Mary E. Hunt is Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual (WATER).Jennifer Rycenga is Professor Emerita of Comparative Religious Studies at San José State University. She is the author of the forthcoming Schooling the Nation, on white abolitionist educator Prudence Crandall and her black students (2024), and coeditor of our The Mary Daly Reader (2016), as well as coeditor of Frontline Feminisms (Routledge, 2000) and Queering the Popular Pitch (Routledge, 2006).Linda Barufaldi is a lifelong radical feminist activist who has worked in the peace, civil rights, women's, LGBT and environmental movements.

"In sum, this anthology is an intellectual gift to feminists everywhere. It reminds us to be fearlessly feminist, to uphold our diverse feminist intellectual traditions, and to collaborate with each other in ways that encourage feminist resistance to the technocratic, necrophilic, and neo-fascist threats, laws, and practice harming those performing as women." (Reading Religion) "She was a great trained philosopher, theologian, and poet, and she used all of those tools to demolish patriarchy -- or any idea that domination is natural -- in its most defended place, which is religion." - Gloria Steinem (Boston Globe, January 2010) ""Brings us face to face with the radical, groundbreaking work of a feminist philosopher whose expectations for women were only exceeded by her commitment to them. I still vividly remember my first encounter with Mary Daly's work, the exhilaration of her wordsmithery, the sense of freedom and clarity that came from having the evils of the world named and condemned, and the ensuing commitment sparked to do something with these insights - to work to dismantle structures of injustice at the root. We need these kinds of transformative encounters today and this book is up to the task... This painstakingly crafted reader invites our engagement (new or continuing) with one of the sharpest thinkers of our time, challenging us to leap into Mary Daly's originally brilliant work and to transcend beyond it."" - Xochitl Alvizo,California State University, Northridge "Tide-like, social and cultural movements flow and ebb—as do the reputations of their founders. This reader puts Daly on display in all of her life-long radical transformations, personal, theological, philosophical, rhetorical." (The Pomegranate)