Mary Daly

Question 1

Unholy Trinity?

Answer 1

Rape
Genocide
War

Question 2

Rape

Answer 2

Erasing female power/autonomy.
Not just seen as a physical act but a metaphorical one.
All forms of silencing women.

Question 3

“Arm chair Rapists”

Answer 3

Those who watch porn are metaphorically raping women.
Men are using porn to enhance their power over women.
Daly Thought.

Question 4

War

Answer 4

Daly argued war was inevitable as a result of male-dominated politics.
She claimed war was defended by “phallic morality” and “phallic mentality”

Question 5

Daly’s Religion

Answer 5

Essentially Paganism.
Daly replaced the patriarchal God with ‘Quintessence’ as the spirit that permeates all nature, giving life and vitality to the universe.

Question 6

Daly “If God is male then,…

Answer 6

male is God”

Question 7

Daly was…

Answer 7

A post-Christian feminist theologian.
Claiming patriarchy has a foundation in Christianity that cannot be removed.
God the father has caused oppression i.e. His heaven, his people, his ministers.

Question 8

Daly - “God should be…

Answer 8

…castrated”