Hello honoured Hags! I read Mary Daly's Gyn/ecology as part of my longer reading project on second wave feminism. It was a really unique and fascinating book. The review is here

Daly is all about naming and describing patriarchal themes and messages so that they cannot work on us subliminally. This quote on the topic of naming patriarchal messages is characteristic of her evocative and rule-breaking style:

"We weave them into visibility/audibility/tangibility. We force them out of the shadows into our sight; we magnify the volume of their eerie whispers—removing their haunting inaudible mystery; we cool down their ghastly gases into puddles of liquid, so that we can bottle and label them, disable them. By this righteous objectifying of those whose intent is to objectify us we come to know the limits of their reality."

I loved the book and am hoping to find more that has a similar focus on the symbolic and spiritual. Has anyone else read and loved Daly, or disagreed with her, or found anything similarly interesting? Would love to discuss.