we have to learn to live now the future we are fighting for …
- Mary Daly, Beyond God the Father, p.138
Today, October 16th 2012, Mary Daly would have been celebrating her eighty-fourth birthday. Chapter Five of her 1973 book, Beyond God the Father, is now available to read here:
The Bonds of Freedom: Sisterhood as Antichurch (also available as an RTF here)
In this wonderful chapter, Mary examines how we have been divided from each other under the sex caste system; how the continuation of the sex caste system depends upon the perpetuation of the division of women from women; and how the emerging feminist consciousness threatens the sex caste system on a profound level by the affirmation of our communal being, by our reaching “toward something beyond opposition.” (p.154)
Happy birthday Mary Daly, and thank you.
16 October 2012 at 1:07 pm
<3 That picture! <3
16 October 2012 at 1:13 pm
Me too! I know it’s a bit *literal* but couldn’t resist …
16 October 2012 at 6:17 pm
Thank you for all your hard work, hagocrat. I recently attempted to listen/watch the Mary Daly Memorial, and sadly, it appears to have been taken down. Do you have any idea if it’s possible to listen to or view it at all?
Thank you.
16 October 2012 at 7:16 pm
I would love to watch or listen to the memorial too womononajourney: if I can find it online I’ll post a link x