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 xii
... sense that we are once again entering a Time of hope . This hope is volcanic , break- ing through the foreground dimensions of experience in explo- sions of Ecstasy , desperation , and Rage . Many women have been jolted out of ...
... sense that we are once again entering a Time of hope . This hope is volcanic , break- ing through the foreground dimensions of experience in explo- sions of Ecstasy , desperation , and Rage . Many women have been jolted out of ...
Page xix
... sense suggests the power of words to carry us into a Time / Space that is after , behind , transformative of , and beyond static being -the stasis maintained by phallocracy . Insofar as they function as Metaphors of Metabeing , Goddess ...
... sense suggests the power of words to carry us into a Time / Space that is after , behind , transformative of , and beyond static being -the stasis maintained by phallocracy . Insofar as they function as Metaphors of Metabeing , Goddess ...
Page xx
... sense of woman - identified integrity , but this is closely associated with the claiming of physical space / time by and for women . Such space / time is " on the boundary of all that has been considered central . " 20 It is hardly ...
... sense of woman - identified integrity , but this is closely associated with the claiming of physical space / time by and for women . Such space / time is " on the boundary of all that has been considered central . " 20 It is hardly ...
Page xxi
... senses - senses that have been muted in the state of depression / repression that is patriarchy . A woman who experiences / Lives this awakening may drastically change her oc- cupation . Or again , a boundary - living woman may appear ...
... senses - senses that have been muted in the state of depression / repression that is patriarchy . A woman who experiences / Lives this awakening may drastically change her oc- cupation . Or again , a boundary - living woman may appear ...
Page xxv
... senses . Releasing words to race together , Websters become Muses . We do not use words ; we Muse words . Metapatterning women and words have magical powers , opening doorways of memories , transforming spaces and times . Rhymes ...
... senses . Releasing words to race together , Websters become Muses . We do not use words ; we Muse words . Metapatterning women and words have magical powers , opening doorways of memories , transforming spaces and times . Rhymes ...
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.