Mary Daly

1. Mary Daly • Points of Identification with her life: • Thought before she was born—David and the Psalm ? (abortion) • Religion Institutional Experiences • Paul Tillich • Misogamy of Christianity • Sonja was denied recognition

2. Nature of the World • Foreground and Background: • Foreground—misogynistic • Background—women move beyond, state of Be-ing • Foreground Examples • Catholicism and Christianity-derivative status • Story of Adam and Eve • Mary kneeling before her own son • Other Cultures: • Indian suttee • Chinese foot binding • African genital mutilation • European witch burning • American gynecology • husbands funeral pyres

3. More Nature of the World • Background Comments and Examples: • Realm of Wild Reality—where animate beings connect • In opposition to the Foreground • Ethic of biophilia • Biophilic Pure Lust

4. More Nature of the World • Definition of Feminism: • An ontological orientation • Exposes Oppression • Open up consciousness to active participation in Movement, • Transcendence, and Happiness • Feminism is a means to the Be-ing in the Background • Plastic Feminism: What about Patriarchy's reaction?

5. Nature of the Rhetor • Foreground: • Controlling and bullying women in to submission • Snools—legitimizing bore-ocracy and cast of characters • Fixers : “continually aim to freeze life” • Plug-uglies-exs: Rapists, pimps wife-beaters, hatchet-men like • physicans and surgeons, scientists, military experts • Wantwits—lack the “qualities of sense and intelligence, • foolocracy • Background: • Traveling Companions or Lusty Spirits that voyage along and Name • be-ing • Names of Lusty Beings—Hags, Crones, Spinster, Fates, Gnomes, • Salamanders, Scolds, Shrews, Soothsayers, Virgins, Websters

6. More About Names of Lusty Beings Salamanders—mythical and not clearly defined animal having the power to endure fire with out harm Application Questions: Is scholarly, legal, medical, governmental terminology any different? Any Examples? What about acronyms? Adolph Eichmann, Hannah Arendt and “Eichmann of Jerusalem”

7. Rhetorical Options • In the Foreground: • Ritualistic Violence toward Women: patterns over the years— • Suttie • Silencing and Erasing Women’s Voices: “pseudo generic” terms • doctors and their wives • Fixing Women's Images: Cosmo Girls, Playboy bunnies • Refusing to See the Problem: there are bigger problems like • pollution—yet is there a connection? • Reversal: Adam’s rib makes him the first mother • Elementary Terms: • Mummies—perpetuate old like civilization or mystery • Dummies—copy like plant for nuclear power plant • Anti-bodies—removed from nature of thing like saint for • “satellite Interceptor

8. Rhetorical Options • In the Background: a continual battle exists between foreground and background • Metaphor: a new logic • Redefinition: spinster--women who can spin • Capitalization: adds emphasis for background words • Spelling/Be-Spelling: to the change the shape like gynecology for • Gyn/Ecology • Grammar/Sin-Tactics: questions the authority of that word order dictates • Pronunciation: denouncing, pronouncing, and announcing • Spooking, Sparking, and Spinning • Be-Laughing: to nix, veto

9. Transformation of Rhetorical Theory • Exigence—several at once in any situation • Realm for Rhetoric—background is a vital site • Rhetor—nonhuman entities • Audience Adaptation—to move the wrong way