It is very post modern in some ways, but very 'modern' in others. And how most woman, who swear they are feminist are unaware of behaviors and attitudes that reflect patriarchal thinking and reinforce oppression NOT because it was wrong ( though I think some things were exaggerated or not quite true) but because it so accurately reflect how deep the psychological underpinnings of patriarchy operate. It is this type of thinking that I think helped fuel the backlash against feminism. it was the most extreme analysis I had ever read about the oppression of woman.

This book really got me off my ass about feminism. Altho the word-work of the 'living/verbing writer' sometimes gets in the way/weigh of flashing in-sights, a painstaking indictment of scholarly 'erasure' of historic events & some bone-chilling facts of women's story, Daly's excursion is bound to inspire Spinsters/Spider Women everywhere & to leave just about everyone else haggard & in-fury-ated.-Kirkus (edited) En route Daly purposefully busts out of some traditional (male) forms & language. Following this 'exorcism,' the Voyager moves in the 3rd Passage to the Otherworld of lesbian-feminist Spinsters who successfully scorn patriarchal intimidation ('Spooking'), stir 'the fire of female friendship' ('Sparking'), &-after a rip-roaring 'Unraveling' gotterdammerung-joyously spin on as Revolting Hags. The 2nd, 'the most somber part of the Journey,' analyzes Goddess-murder (and the murder of the Goddess in every woman) thru the 'Sado-Rituals' of five specific historic atrocities: Indian suttee, Chinese footbinding, African genital mutilation, European witchburning, & American gynecology & psychotherapy (gynecology of the mind practiced by the-rapists).

'75 Beyond God the Father, '73) has written 'an extremist book.on the edge of a culture that is killing itself.' Conceived as a radical feminist 'Voyage' of woman becoming herself, it's made up of three 'Passages.' The 1st denounces the reversals & deceptions ('mind pollution') of patriarchal disciplines (including 'Godfather' theology) & exuberantly sets out to 'discover' the true 'Croneology' behind that male mystification. Theologian/philosopher Daly (The Church & the 2nd Sex, Rev.

Mary Daly's New Intergalactic Introduction explores her process as a Crafty Pirate on the Journey of Writing Gyn/Ecology and reveals the autobiographical context of this 'Thunderbolt of Rage' that she first hurled against the patriarchs in 1979 and no hurls again in the Re-Surging Movement of Radical Feminism in the Be-Dazzling Nineties. This revised edition includes a New Intergalactic Introduction by the Author.

Gyn/Ecology by Mary Daly