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
... women have been jolted out of complacency . Radical feminists who have been Trav- eling since the late sixties and early seventies - sometimes feel- ing cast into the role of Cassandra , the unheard prophetess - are now joined by newly ...
... women have been jolted out of complacency . Radical feminists who have been Trav- eling since the late sixties and early seventies - sometimes feel- ing cast into the role of Cassandra , the unheard prophetess - are now joined by newly ...
Page xiv
... women into repetitive circles and point- less death marches . We have witnessed an escalation of rape , woman ... women to their masters , physically and psychically . These manifestations of physical vio- lence , combined with such ...
... women into repetitive circles and point- less death marches . We have witnessed an escalation of rape , woman ... women to their masters , physically and psychically . These manifestations of physical vio- lence , combined with such ...
Page xv
... women - particularly through the master - minded media - torture , batter , and bury Deep Mem- ory , afflicting women with amnesia . Despite the many and solid gains of recent years , the battering of women's psyches in this period of ...
... women - particularly through the master - minded media - torture , batter , and bury Deep Mem- ory , afflicting women with amnesia . Despite the many and solid gains of recent years , the battering of women's psyches in this period of ...
Page xvi
... women in the state of the grateful dead . Lulled / dulled into the sleeping death which is the condi- tion designed for patriarchally possessed women , " forgetting " the reality of gynocide , women react to each other as if they were ...
... women in the state of the grateful dead . Lulled / dulled into the sleeping death which is the condi- tion designed for patriarchally possessed women , " forgetting " the reality of gynocide , women react to each other as if they were ...
Page xix
... women's auras in the state of servitude which is patriarchy.19 Powerful old words whose Metaphoric force has been faded under the phallocratic rule in- clude Spinster , Webster , Weird , Hag , Witch , Sibyl , Muse , and many Others , as ...
... women's auras in the state of servitude which is patriarchy.19 Powerful old words whose Metaphoric force has been faded under the phallocratic rule in- clude Spinster , Webster , Weird , Hag , Witch , Sibyl , Muse , and many Others , as ...
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.