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# Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation

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## Customer Reviews

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    GOOD EFFORT WITH FLAWS
  

*by R***E on Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2020*

The author, Mary Daly, seems to think that all females are these intrinsically magical, dynamic creatures, explaining the boring/stupid ones by sentences like these: "Women who are seemingly incapable of a high degree of self-actualization have been made such by societal structures that are products of human attempts to CREATE SECURITY.  They do receive a kind of security in return for accepting very LIMITED AND UNDIFFERENTIATED IDENTITIES." (p. 23).  And:  "Females...have been infected by the dynamics of the Mirror World:  They find in themselves reflections of the sickness of their masters". (p. 197)It is the classic Nature VS Nurture debate on the question of these non-dynamic females.  I lean towards thinking that at least some of these females are naturally, intrinsically non-dynamic, boring, even stupid, and the argument I would make for this actually comes from Daly's own writing---my experiences show me so.  If Daly has one fatal flaw it is this:  She is overly egalitarian (and sometimes overly academic in tone) when it comes to her generalizations on women.But this flaw is more than balanced by some truly out-of-the-box, original, insightful, rebellious expressions that do reverberate for authentically dynamic women.  The following are just some examples:-The power of presence, for those who are fixated upon patriarchal space, is threatening. (p. 41)  It throws those who WOULD ASSUME THE ROLE OF EXPLOITERS back into their sense of nothingness. (p. 42)-Rage is required as a positive creative force.  It rises as a reaction to the shock of recognizing what has been lost-before it had even been discovered-one's own identity. (p. 43)-"Demonic Power Relationship" (p. 43)-[There is] the direction of the self-hatred of the male outward against women. (p. 48)-Both women and men identify with the goals of the superordinate group and therefore see the rebellious female as "the enemy". (p.48)-Mary [Jesus's mother] is the Goddess symbol which Christianity was never able to wipe out entirely. (p. 87)  She has had a power which contrasts with the artificiality and rootlessness of the Jewish and Christian god. (p. 92)-Not only the rapist but frequently also the priest view her as an OBJECT TO BE MANIPULATED ---in one case physically, and in the other case psychologically:  MACHISMO RELIGION. (p. 109)-Men give nonverbal cues signaling status above women. (p. 136)-There is now social pressure for women to be available to any male at the beck of a once-over, to be a NONPROFESSIONAL WHORE". (p.122)-"Ovarian Insight" (p. 146)And, finally, there are these lines which will resonate for any woman who has ever been coerced, manipulated, exploited, used, or forced into any kind of sexual activity:  "NO LONGER internalize the projections that CUT OFF the flow of being" (p. 42) and "Break out of the CYCLES of rapism". (p. xvi)

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    You Can Learn the Real Goals of Feminism
  

*by B***Y on Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2023*

Filled with philosophical mumbo jumbo. My goal was to read this book to see what feminism actually is about rather than what people say it is about. It was rather eye opening. Daly is all about an androgynous society. I think that has in many ways happened as people in our day are confused about their gender.  There is a huge push in our culture to pretend men and women are the same. You can read the book and decide if reaching these goals has worked out to be the utopia Daly imagined.

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    Dated
  

*by H***A on Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2022*

The dated writing style makes this book almost unreadable. The author frequently hyphenates words unnecessarily, in order to make a point of each word. She frequently capitalizes words unnecessarily, as if to call them out. She frequently pairs similar words with a slash. The result is difficult to read and makes her sound almost Victorian. Although the book is called "Beyond God the Father," it actually seems to be a discussion of Christian religious terms with new definitions which she spells out, to explain her point. I couldn't read it all.

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