Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation'Certainly one of the most promising theological statements of our time.' --The Christian Century 'Not for the timid, this brilliant book calls for nothing short of the overthrow of patriarchy itself.' --The Village Voice |
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Page xvii
... living the spiraling journey of integrity and transformation , of re - membering ourselves as verbs , as participators in the Verb , Be - ing . * From God the Father to God the Verb , and Beyond This book takes on the task of de ...
... living the spiraling journey of integrity and transformation , of re - membering ourselves as verbs , as participators in the Verb , Be - ing . * From God the Father to God the Verb , and Beyond This book takes on the task of de ...
Page xx
... Living the process of participation in Powers of Be - ing . Elementally Metaphoric words and the actions they encourage and reflect are signals of these Powers . They are Metamorphic , shifting the shapes of space and time , rearranging ...
... Living the process of participation in Powers of Be - ing . Elementally Metaphoric words and the actions they encourage and reflect are signals of these Powers . They are Metamorphic , shifting the shapes of space and time , rearranging ...
Page xxi
... living dead . Having learned from recent experi- ence to understand more deeply than before that assimilation is deadly , deviant women can focus with renewed ferocity upon understanding the possibilities of our territory - the boundary ...
... living dead . Having learned from recent experi- ence to understand more deeply than before that assimilation is deadly , deviant women can focus with renewed ferocity upon understanding the possibilities of our territory - the boundary ...
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... Living " on the bound- ary " precisely because the Elemental location of the Boundary which underlies all the shifts and variations of boundaries is be- tween the worlds.22 These worlds are the fixers ' stage - set of fictions ...
... Living " on the bound- ary " precisely because the Elemental location of the Boundary which underlies all the shifts and variations of boundaries is be- tween the worlds.22 These worlds are the fixers ' stage - set of fictions ...
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... living on ' of possessed tokens . The process of Survivors is meta- living , be - ing . " 24. See Daly , Pure Lust , pp . 147-52 . 25. Many of the ideas suggested in this and the following sections will be developed in the forthcoming ...
... living on ' of possessed tokens . The process of Survivors is meta- living , be - ing . " 24. See Daly , Pure Lust , pp . 147-52 . 25. Many of the ideas suggested in this and the following sections will be developed in the forthcoming ...
Contents
After the Death of God the Father | 13 |
Exorcising Evil from Eve The Fall into Freedom | 44 |
Beyond Christolatry A World Without Models | 69 |
Transvaluation of Values The End of Phallic Morality | 98 |
The Bonds of Freedom Sisterhood as Antichurch | 132 |
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Page 1 - When you are criticising the philosophy of an epoch, do not chiefly direct your attention to those intellectual positions which its exponents feel it necessary explicitly to defend. There will be some fundamental assumptions which adherents of all the variant systems within the epoch unconsciously presuppose. Such assumptions appear so obvious that people do not know what they are assuming because no other way of putting things has ever occurred to them.
Page vii - What the hammer? what the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? what dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp? When the stars threw down their spears, And water'd heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee? *> Tyger! tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye, Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
Page 6 - For my purpose is to show that the women's revolution, insofar as it is true to its own essential dynamics, is an ontological, spiritual revolution, pointing beyond the idolatries of sexist society and sparking creative action in and toward transcendence.