Mary Daly (born 1928) was considered the foremost feminist theoretician and philosopher in the United States. Mary Daly was born in Schenectady, New York, on October 16, 1928. Educated in Catholic schools, she received her first Ph.D. from St. Mary's...

There was a workshop on Mary Daly's philosophy and her current legal battle with Boston College. Boston College claims that Daly retired voluntarily, but she never agreed to retire and is suing the college for breach of contract. Boston College took this unilateral...

Mary Daly is one of the most important American feminist thinkers and writers of the 20th century. We are pleased to dedicate this issue of off our backs to a retrospective on her work. The following excerpt, reprinted with permission, is the introduction...

Doctors are encouraging a new group of people to consider getting tested for genes that raise the risk of breast cancer: men.Male relatives of women with such genes often do not realize that they, too, may carry them, and face greater odds of developing male...

Doctors are encouraging a new group of people to consider getting tested for genes that raise the risk of breast cancer: men. Male relatives of women with such genes often do not realize that they, too, may carry them, and face greater odds of developing...

In the following essay, Ratcliffe provides an overview of Daly's radical feminist critique of patriarchal language and discusses the rhetorical strategies of intervention by which she exposes male oppression embedded in language and attempts to reclaim and liberate women's discourse from male domination.

In the following essay, Korte traces the development and contradictions of Daly's feminist theology and post-Christian critique of patriarchy, particularly as shaped by her reading of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex and subsequent efforts to reconcile religious experience with the process of women's self-realization and transcendence.

In the following essay, Griffin analyzes Daly's feminist philosophy of language and its application as an alternative mode of communication theory and rhetorical practice among women. According to Griffin, Daly elucidates the dichotomy between women's public and private discourse, embodied in a “foreground” of patriarchal oppression and a “background” of feminist authenticity and subversion.