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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... look toward men and turn them to stone - the doomsday men with their doomsday clocks whose tick - tocks mimic the rhythms of Lunar Time . Gorgons look out- ward , refusing to serve the masters ' commands to peer into mir- rors . They ...
... look toward men and turn them to stone - the doomsday men with their doomsday clocks whose tick - tocks mimic the rhythms of Lunar Time . Gorgons look out- ward , refusing to serve the masters ' commands to peer into mir- rors . They ...
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... look at concrete oppressive facts . For example , would - be pacifiers of women seem to be fond of quoting the Pauline text which proclaims that " in Christ there is neither male nor female . " This invites the response that even if ...
... look at concrete oppressive facts . For example , would - be pacifiers of women seem to be fond of quoting the Pauline text which proclaims that " in Christ there is neither male nor female . " This invites the response that even if ...
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... look down upon the primordially castrated be- ings - women . Now these primordial eunuchs are rising up to castrate not people but the system that castrates - that great " God - Father " of us all which indulges senselessly and ...
... look down upon the primordially castrated be- ings - women . Now these primordial eunuchs are rising up to castrate not people but the system that castrates - that great " God - Father " of us all which indulges senselessly and ...
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... look beyond phallocentric morality . The last three chapters focus upon the community of sisterhood under three aspects : as Antichurch , as Cosmic Covenant , and as Final Cause . This writing has been done in hope . Hopefully it ...
... look beyond phallocentric morality . The last three chapters focus upon the community of sisterhood under three aspects : as Antichurch , as Cosmic Covenant , and as Final Cause . This writing has been done in hope . Hopefully it ...
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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.