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Mary Daly 1928-2010 Volume 21 Number 1 2010 www.hers.com/water Memories of Mary Daly from the WATER Alliance Mary Daly How saddened I am, a 72-year-old 19282010 Canadian Catholic feminist who was liberated to think new thoughts by the A Biographical Sketch exhilarating ideas offered by Mary Daly in her 1973 Beyond God the Father and her subsequent work for academic freedom at Boston College. We live in her wake, and in By Mary E. Hunt her debt. Rosemary Ganley, Ontario, Canada ____ For the Mary Daly Memorial Gathering How we were all electrified by her tremendous courage, her vivid mind and pen, her incisive May 1, 2010, at Episcopal Divinity School challenges to us, and to the world. In gratitude, in Cambridge, MA Sheila Dierks, Boulder, CO ____ Mary Daly, in her own words, threw Photo Credit: www.isaegil.net/bbs/data/column/IS2_daly I think Mary Daly leaves a great legacy and I try to live it in my little way as best I can. her life as far as it would go. On Archaic Afterwords. Her case against Beyond God the Father changed my religious November 1, 2002, with Mary Daly at the institutional Catholic Church, which she thinking forever. I loved all her books and saw my side in Cambridge, I gave an called the inevitable enemy of human her last in Boston at an SBL meeting. Renate introduction to her life at a conference progress (CSS, p. 219), remains as rele- Rose, Cambridge, MA on the history of women and American vant today as it was forty years ago. ____ religion that Ann Braude organized Mary later broadened her analysis to Daly had SUCH an impact on everyone, and through Harvard Divinity School. Mary write off all of Christianity and other anyone who ever met her is still processing that event! Meg Riley, Minneapolis, MN vetted the bio before I uttered the first patriarchal religions. She had allowed in ____ word, so I feel on solid ground to share The Church and the Second Sex that There is no telling how great an influence parts of it as we remember her and her Christianity might be reformable, but she Mary Daly has had in the world of feminism remarkable life. corrected the record in Beyond God the and religionwe are still exploring all that What Mary Daly called the First Spiral Father: Toward a Philosophy of Womens she opened up to us. May she rest in, well, Galaxy began before she was born in Liberation, published in 1973. It is maybe not peace per se but with a settledness Schenectady, NY, on October 16, 1928, perhaps the most widely quoted, if not which will allow her soul to rejoice that this the only and deeply-desired daughter of the most widely read, book in the field. I world will never be the same. Loey Powell, UCC Justice & Witness Ministries, Cleveland, OH Anna and Frank X. Daly, themselves recall turning its pages at Harvard ____ children of Irish immigrants. She was Divinity School in 1973, my naïve Catho- She soared like a star and led the way for educated at St. Rose College in Albany, lic mouth agape as I realized one could many of us. I am glad I had the good fortune NY, then went on to pursue three doctor- indeed forsake patriarchal religious giv- to have met her once. And my memory of that ates both in the U.S. and in Europe ens and move on to healthier, happier, day here in Washington, DC, was of a group (Fribourg, Switzerland), where she spent some would say holier, ways of being. of grown women at a book signing rolling on seven years teaching and writing. She Mary called it her self-conferred the floor with laughter. Hope Bauerlin, OSF, liked that one of the doctorates was a diploma granted upon her successful Silver Spring, MD ____ pontifical degree, the Doctor of Sacred completion of the requirements for I am sorry about the loss to us all with Mary Theology, in case she were elected pope! graduation from the Catholic Church. Daly's passing. Like so many of us I am deeply Mary spent a month in Rome in 1965 Indeed, she had already passed the indebted to her and have been thinking about when the Second Vatican Council was in comprehensives, I would argue, in her her since I heard of her passing this morning. I full swing. She saw firsthand the cos- successful tenure battle in 1969 at Boston never had the pleasure of meeting her in per- tumed eminences of kyriarchal Catholi- College. Boston College was her longtime son. Nancy Pineda-Madrid, Boston College, cism in all their plumage, while the academic home and her longtime neme- Boston, MA ____ handful of women auditors (so named sis. BC, which finally forced her into Mary Daly was someone who truly spoke because they could only listen but not retirement thirty years later, gave her a boldly, despite the consequences. May we all speak) watched from the ecclesial peanut terminal contract in 1969. More than carry that aspect of her spirit with us in the gallery. This hideous dynamic crystallized 1500 male students (in those days BCs years to come as we continue the journey for her thinking about The Church and the student body was almost entirely male) justice to which she so courageously contrib- Second Sex, published in 1968 and later demonstrated on her behalf. Perhaps uted. I give thanks to God for the gift of her reissued with the memorable Feminist calculating that several of them would life. Nicole Sotelo, Call to Action, Chicago, IL Postchristian Introduction and New (Continued on page 2) Editorial ...Mary Daly (Continued from page 1) If the universe had not created Mary turn out to be rich donors, the college Daly we would have had to invent her! changed its tune and granted her Her influence on the field of feminist stud- promotion and tenure. ies in religion remains enormous. She cre- The famous walk-out from Memorial ated space where none existed before, Church took place in this same period, on sort of like someone coming along and November 14, 1971, part of what Mary creating another island like Manhattan. called the Second Spiral Galaxy of her For countless people, women and men, (l. to r.) Mary E. Hunt and Mary Daly, life. As the first woman in 336 years to November 1, 2002, Harvard Divinity School Mary Daly changed my life. Prudent be invited to preach at a Harvard friends are quick to point out, You Conference on Women and Religion. Photo Sunday service, Mary wasnt about to let credit: WATER. changed your own life. Mary Daly just the occasion pass unnoticed. The actual sparked you to do so. What they mean sermon, like most sermons, has largely is that Marys fearless following where faded into oblivion. But the action of lots ecstasy, moves to overcome them. While the data led herout of the churches, of women, and a few men, marching critiqued for essentializing, perhaps away from patriarchal influences, beyond down the center aisle of Memorial homogenizing what were different tired expectationsmeant that the rest Church, urged on from the pulpit to leave womens experiences, Mary Daly trained of us could inhabit the spaces between behind the gods of their fathers, left an a bright light on injustices in need of here and there. indelible stamp on the Christian Church as eradication. WATER and other feminist religious a whole. I suspect it sent shivers down the In 1984 she published Pure Lust: organizations owe our existence in part spines of many a preaching patriarch Elemental Feminist Philosophy, a logical to Mary Daly. We may not have agreed who feared that his words might be extension of Gyn/Ecology, detailing with everything she said, nor did we think greeted with the same voting by feet. philosophical delicacies like the courage she was without failings, intellectual and Many women realized they could live to sin. Pure Lust, she explains, is not otherwise. But across the field, around the quite handily without benefit of clergy. primarily a work of feminist eroticism, world, there is an indebtedness to Mary Daly for her critical intellectual leadership, her personal courage, her Long may her ideas spark generations to do justice... boundless humor, and her oft-passed- Indeed, leaving patriarchal religions, or although it hardly excludes this from its over mysticism. at least defecting in place, as some range of concern. Chiefly, it is a work of This special issue of the WATERwheel came to see the efforts to transform from Feminist Erraticism (PL, p. x). celebrates her good Irish self. within, became quite common for many Such linguistic creativity demanded its feminists. The mass exit from Memorial own wordbook, hence her Websters First Church was a source of inspiration during New Intergalactic Wickedary of the a period of high energy, collective English Language, conjured in cahoots actions, and bold moves to illustrate the with Jane Caputi in 1987. The Wicke- intimate relationship between patriarchal dary offered strong feminist definitions religious claims and a society in which of words like crone, lesbian, and women and children were marginalized. witch, epithets hurled at women now If the First Spiral Galaxy was lived hurled right back with fresh meanings. within, albeit against, patriarchal Yet another Boston College promotion institutions, the Second Spiral Galaxy debacle took place in 1989. Despite her was clearly beyond them. many publications and her influence, not The Third Spiral Galaxy, 1975-87, to mention petitions signed by several was a move beyond the beyond, or what hundred colleagues in the American Mary called spinning, when she pub- Academy of Religion, Boston Colleges lished some of her most widely-discussed committee wrote, the Committee recog- work.
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