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- The Feminist Review, #5 [in The New Women's Times, 5:14, July 16–19, 1979]
- Frontiers, IV:1, 1979
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- The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1979
- “Book World,” The Washington Post, January 24, 1980
- The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1980
- Sinister Wisdom, 12, winter 1980
- Frontiers, V:3, 1981
- “Book World,” The Washington Post, May 10, 1981
- Essays
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Frontiers, IV:1, 1979
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- Frontmatter
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- Reviews
- The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1966
- The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1967
- The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1968
- The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1968
- The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1968
- The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1969
- The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, August 1969
- The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September 1969
- The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1970
- The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1970
- The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1971
- The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1971
- The Village Voice, September 9, 1971
- The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1971
- College English, 33:3, December 1971
- The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1972
- The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1973
- Village Voice, June 16, 1973
- The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, July 1973
- The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1974
- The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1975
- The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1975
- The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, April 1975
- The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1976
- Frontiers, III:3, fall, 1978
- The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1979
- “Book World,” The Washington Post, April 1, 1979
- “Book World,” The Washington Post, May 9, 1979
- The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1979
- The Feminist Review, #5 [in The New Women's Times, 5:14, July 16–19, 1979]
- Frontiers, IV:1, 1979
- Frontiers, IV: 2, 1979
- The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November 1979
- “Book World,” The Washington Post, January 24, 1980
- The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1980
- Sinister Wisdom, 12, winter 1980
- Frontiers, V:3, 1981
- “Book World,” The Washington Post, May 10, 1981
- Essays
- Letters
- Index of Books and Authors Reviewed
Summary
Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism. Mary Daly (Boston: Beacon Press, 1979, 485pp., $14.95)
That's not an issue.
That's not an issue any more.
Then why do you keep on bringing it up?
You keep on bringing it up because you are crazy.
You keep on bringing it up because you are hostile.
You keep on bringing it up because you are intellectually irresponsible.
You keep on bringing it up because you are shrill, strident, and self-indulgent.
How can I possibly listen to anyone as crazy, hostile, intellectually irresponsible, shrill, strident, and self-indulgent as you are?
Especially since what you're talking about is simply not an issue.
(Any more.)
Mary Daly has written a wild, whirling, terrifying, ecstatic, haggard book. In Beyond God the Father Daly was reasonable, temperate, civilized, and continually emphasized in the most charmingly responsible way that she was speaking to men as well as women; between that and Gyn/Ecology a great deal of life and consciousness (and undoubtedly the book reviews of Of Women Born et al.) has happened; the result is a quantum leap that will be seen, beyond the shadow of a doubt, as “anti-male.” Daly says so herself and adds dryly: “Even the most cautious and circumspect feminist writings are described that way” (p. 29). So what the hell. Gyn/Ecology does not bother to make the usual ritual gestures of deference, liberalism, compassion, humanism, and whatnot (“I'm not angry! I'm not threatening! Don't kill me!”) As Daly says, the “primary intent of women who choose to be present to each other … is not an invitation to men” (p. x). The way in which the glossy surface of patriarchy has closed over the feminism of only a few years ago is amazing: “Of course all that was true six or seven years ago, but we've taken care of those questions and it's very rude to mention them now. Besides, the women's movement is dead.” Gyn/Ecology is a terrifying book because of its bad manners, because of its poetry, because it rips through the thin veils of the accommodations under which we all shelter, and because it threatens us with a return to the basics – and the anger and terror they rouse.
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- The Country You Have Never SeenEssays and Reviews, pp. 155 - 160Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2007