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The BIG SIN - Die Lust am Sündigen
Mary Daly und ihr Werk
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Mary Daly ist eine der wichtigsten Vordenkerinnen der Neuen Frauenbewegung. Als eine der Ersten analysierte sie die Strukturen der patriarchalen Greueltaten von der griechischen Antike bis heute. Und sie benannte zugleich die Bedingungen, die es Frauen ermöglichen, die mörderische Welt der Väter und Söhne zu durchqueren, dabei die patriarchalen Bandagen abzustreifen, über sie zu lachen- und vor allem ihr eigenes ursprüngliches Wissen wiederzuentdecken und ihre verschütteten vulkanischen Leidenschaften zu leben. So entwickelte sie eine elementale Philosophie für Frauen. Dieses Buch bietet einen anregenden Einstieg in ihr großes Werk - und möchte neugierig machen auf die grundlegenden Ideen einer wegweisenden Feministin, die 2010 in den USA starb. Es arbeitet die Kernthesen eines ihrer Hauptwerke ("Reine Lust") heraus und versammelt in Übersetzung verschiedene reflektierende Stimmen und Nachrufe von Freundinnen und Weggefährtinnen aus dem englisch-sprachigen Raum sowie aus Österreich und Deutschland. Eine spannende Entdeckungsreise für neue Leserinnen, eine erneute lustvolle Begegnung mit einer radikal-feministischen Denkerin, die auch heute noch aktuell ist, und auch eine interessante Zeitreise.
Eveline Ratzel, geb. 1950 in Regensburg nach der Flucht. Verbriefte Arzthelferin und Diplomsoziologin. Beruflich und ehrenamtlich war sie fast immer mit Frauen befasst, z.B. beim Karlsruher Frauennotruf, den sie mitbegründete. Mary Daly kennt sie nicht nur aus ihren Büchern, sie traf sie bei Lesungen, gestaltete ein gemeinsames Seminar in der Schweiz. Bis heute unterrichtet sie interessierte Frauen, verbringt aber auch viel Zeit mit Tanzen, Trommeln, Wandern und Philosophieren.
Veröffentlichungen: "Clanfrauen, ent-Grimm-te Märchen", "Die Brache", "Helle Nacht"
sowie eine Diplomarbeit über Mary Dalys Philosophie. Beruflich war ich fast immer mit Frauen befasst. Zur Zeit vertreibe ich mir diese mit tanzen, singen, trommeln, wandern, viel philosophieren und ein wenig unterrichten. uvm.
Mary Daly und ihr Traum in GRÜN -Von Gudrun Nositschka
Eine FEMMAGE : Am 3. Januar 2010 starb im Alter von 81 Jahren Mary Daly, eine radikal – feministische Denkerin und Autorin. Ihr Traum in GRÜN begegnet uns in ihrem erkenntnisstarken Werk und bietet uns die Chance, selbst vom Baum der Erkenntnis zu essen und so eine Reise in die Andere Welt zu beginnen, auf deren Weg wir Ignoranz und Unwissenheit einer phallokratischen/patriarchalen Denkweise verlieren und hinter uns lassen können. Indem wir diesen Weg beschreiten werden wir “an der Göttin in uns teilhaben, das heißt, am Sei-en, am Wissen”.
Die Überlebens-Notwendigkeit für Frauen, sich auf diese nicht ungefährliche Reise in einem Fortschreiten in physischem und intellektuellem Mut zu begeben, war bei Mary Daly selber ein langer Entwicklungsprozess. Ausgestattet mit einer glücklichen Kindheit bei irisch-amerikanischen Eltern im Staat New York, der Möglichkeit lernen zu dürfen, wenn auch nicht Physik und Philosophie, erweiterte sie systematisch ihr Wissen aus dem Angebotenen. Ihr Studium der kath. Theologie in Fribourg/Schweiz schloss sie mit 35 Jahren mit einer Dissertation ab, der zwei Jahre später eine Dissertation in Philosophie folgte. Erst jetzt war sie so weit, die Lügen der Phallowissenschaft aufzudröseln und die patriarchalen Scheuklappen und Geistbandagen, die sie die Jahre zuvor zwar ahnte, aber nicht benennen konnte, abzulegen. Zwei Erkenntnisformen zeichneten von nun an Mary Daly aus: Leidenschaft in der Intuition verknüpft mit logischen Folgerungen.a. TheBIGSIN - Die Lust zum Sündigen
Mary Daly und ihr Werk von Eveline Ratzel verwirklicht mit Andrea Keller sowie
Mary Daly und ihr Werk von Eveline Ratzel verwirklicht mit Andrea Keller sowie
b. Kriegswaffe Planet Erde von Rosalie Bertell unter großem Einsatz von Claudia v. Werlhof
Zu a. Das Buch enthält Kernthesen zum Werk „Reine Lust“ und Stimmen und Nachrufe von Freundinnen, Weggefährtinnen, Schülerinnen und KritikerInnen aus dem englischsprachigen Raum sowie aus Deutschland und Österreich. Eine lustvolle Begegnung mit einer radikal – feministischen Denkerin, eine spannende Zeitreise und ein anregender Einstieg in ihr großes Werk. Gesponsert von einer langjährigen Organisatorin. Deshalb bei 280 S. nur 17,00 €. Bald im Christel-Göttert-Verlag und auf dem Büchertisch in Göttingen.
Zu b. Das von uns geförderte Buch „Kriegswaffe Planet Erde“ kann mit einer Vergünstigung von 25% beim Verlag vorbestellt werden. Wie? Antworten bei mir und Claudia von Werlhof.
Zu b. Das von uns geförderte Buch „Kriegswaffe Planet Erde“ kann mit einer Vergünstigung von 25% beim Verlag vorbestellt werden. Wie? Antworten bei mir und Claudia von Werlhof.
"Die mangelnde Heranziehung von Frauen in öffentlichen Ämtern und ihre geringe Beteiligung in den Parlamenten ist doch schlicht Verfassungsbruch in Permanenz!"
Elisabeth Selbert, 1981. Eine der vier Mütter des Grundgesetzes der Bundesrepublik Deutschland) Sie wäre am 22. Sept. 115 Jahre alt geworden. Gefunden bei Luise Pusch unter www.fembio.org
Ob die Partei der Piraten in Berlin nur von (jungen) Männern gewählt worden ist? In meinem letzten Brief an Gerda Weiler am 15. Sept. 1994 (Veröffentlicht in „Bleibe unerschrocken“, 1996) berichtete ich ihr von einem Radiovortrag, in dem ein Referent empfahl, dass Männer und Frauen getrennt ihre KandidatInnen aufstellen sollten, also Männer wählen Männer, Frauen Frauen, um sicherzustellen, dass männliche und weibliche Denkweisen gleichermaßen stark in Gemeinderäten bis zum Bundestag vertreten sind. Er fragte sich selber, welches Parlament bereit wäre, dieses Verfahren durchzusetzen!? -
Ich danke für spannende Hinweise, Lob und freundliche Kritiken.
Gudrun Nositschka
“The Courage to Sin Big”: Mary Daly, Radical Feminist Theologian, has Died
Posted on January 5, 2010 by bostonboomer
From Ms. Magazine:
Daly’s tenure at Boston College was tumultuous at times. Publication of her book The Church and the Second Sex in 1968 caused the college to briefly fire her from her position, but according the the National Catholic Reporter, she was eventually granted tenure “as a result of support from the (then all-male) student body and the general public.” Daly also agreed to retire after a 1998 lawsuit with the college after she refused to let two male students into one of her classes.Daly wrote about her struggle with Boston College in her 2006 book, Amazon Grace: Recalling the Courage to Sin Big.
Professor Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite of Chicago Theological Seminary wrote a very nice remembrance of Daly in the Washington Post.
When I was a graduate student in religion the 1970′s, I bought a copy of Daly’s Beyond God the Father (1973) and I wrapped it in brown paper so nobody at Duke Divinity School could see what I was reading. In those days, Daly’s work was considered very radical, and even dangerous; several of my professors roundly condemned Daly’s work. Reading Beyond God the Father in secret helped give me the courage to invent myself as a feminist theologian; I had no help in that from my all-male teachers at Duke.I also love this quote from from the Ms. Magazine article:
More than three decades ago, Daly wrote, “If God is male, then male is God.” She was right then, and she is right now. Religions that will not recognize the full equality of women simply substitute maleness for divinity.
I used to talk with Mary Daly in Boston as we lived in the same neighborhood and had our cars repaired at the same garage. She once said to me, in a critical tone, “they’ll punish you just as much for being a little bit of a feminist as going all the way.”
According to the National Catholic Reporter, Daly once wrote, “There are and will be those who think I have gone overboard. Let them rest assured that this assessment is correct, probably beyond their wildest imagination, and that I will continue to do so.”As a woman who was brought up in the Catholic Church and still feels its influence, I salute Mary Daly for her radical, nonconformist life and work. Reading her books validated my own feelings of being treated as “less than” by the church of my childhood and by the society I grew up in. May she rest in peace.
Mary Daly's 'courage to sin big'
If there ever were a big sinner in the eyes of patriarchal religion, the honor of that title goes to Mary Daly. Mary Daly, "elemental feminist philosopher" and ground-breaking early feminist theologian, has died, but her ability to give women courage to name their experience will continue.When I was a graduate student in religion the 1970's, I bought a copy of Daly's Beyond God the Father (1973) and I wrapped it in brown paper so nobody at Duke Divinity School could see what I was reading. In those days, Daly's work was considered very radical, and even dangerous; several of my professors roundly condemned Daly's work. Reading Beyond God the Father in secret helped give me the courage to invent myself as a feminist theologian; I had no help in that from my all-male teachers at Duke.
More than three decades ago, Daly wrote, "If God is male, then male is God." She was right then, and she is right now. Religions that will not recognize the full equality of women simply substitute maleness for divinity.
I used to talk with Mary Daly in Boston as we lived in the same neighborhood and had our cars repaired at the same garage. She once said to me, in a critical tone, "they'll punish you just as much for being a little bit of a feminist as going all the way."
Daly knew what it was to be punished for speaking her mind. She was attacked often for her writings, and for her teaching at Boston College. She finally was forced to retire as part of the settlement of a lawsuit over her practice of teaching only women. She documented her account of that struggle in the 2006 book, "Amazon Grace: Recalling the Courage to Sin Big." (Read more about gender and sexuality.)
Daly held six graduate degrees, including three doctorates in religion, theology and philosophy. Beyond God the Father was her last book in which she attempted to re-take "God-talk" for feminists; but even in early work, Daly creatively reimagines the term God as a verb rather than a noun. In this she was influenced by both the Protestant theologian Paul Tillich, and the Jewish philosopher, Martin Buber. She soon abandoned theology altogether for an existenialist philosophical exploration of women's experience as she came to define it.
Controversy followed Daly's work not only in regard to her critiques of patriarchal religion and her teaching, but also within the women's movement. Audre Lorde, a Caribbean-American poet, writer and activist, wrote a personal letter to Daly in the 1980's. While expressing appreciation for Daly's work, Lorde questioned Daly's failure to acknowledge the "herstory" of women of color. After four months with no reply, Lorde published the letter. The debate that resulted illustrates the difficulties many white feminists theorists have had (and continue to have) in deeply engaging issues of race as well as gender. Daly was also later criticized for her rejection of transexuals.
There is no universal category of "women"--that is where I part company with Daly. Racial dominance can blind us to the real differences of other women's experience. The experience of transgendered people may mess up your theory, but in my view it's the theory that has to change, not the other way around.
But Daly's experience was different from my own, and my critique of her single-minded focus on her understanding of gender does not blind me to the incredible gift of her work to feminist theory. Above all, in works like Gyn/Ecology, Pure Lust, and Webster's First New Intergalactic Wickedary she helped me to laugh at the pretensions of patriarchal views of women, reclaiming terms such as "hag," "witch," and "crone" and illuminating their origin in the fear of women.
Not long ago, I had occasion to re-read Beyond God the Father. Not only did I find I agreed with all of it, these days I would go beyond the Mary Daly of 1973 in my critique of patriarchal theology, as would most progressive women in religion I know. That is the gift of really big sinners like Mary Daly--they give others of us courage to go farther than we ever dreamed possible in treasuring the lives of women.
ABSTRACT: PERSONAL HISTORY about the writer's feminist philosophy... In my books "Beyond God the Father" (1973) and "Gyn/Ecology" (1978), the doctrines of the male-god and of the trinity are revealed as distorted reflections of ancient female images of divinity... Writer took an unpaid leave of absence in order to write "Gyn/Ecology," a book that explores patriarchal myths and the enactment of these in the form of atrocities against women. The book was published in 1978, university administrators predictably reacted with "misterical" behavior. Monitors were sent to "observe" my classes, and various other mechanisms of mental torture were employed. While that institution has benefited from my name, attracting students and visiting faculty and gaining recognition for academic excellence and "liberality"/"liberalism", it has consistently fostered another kind of "name and fame." The grapevine blacklisting within the intricate buddy system that is the academic men's club is intended to manufacture a "no-win" situation for me as well as for all Radical Feminists, actual and potential.
Mary Daly, pioneering feminist who tussled with BC, dies at 81
Fiercely and playfully -- often at the same time -- Mary Daly used words to challenge the basic precepts of the Catholic Church and Boston College, where she was on the faculty for more than 30 years.
Dr. Daly emerged as a major voice in the burgeoning women's movement with her first book, "The Church and the Second Sex," published in 1968, and "Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation," which appeared five years later. That accomplishment was viewed, then and now, as all the more significant because she wrote and taught at a Jesuit college.
"She was a great trained philosopher, theologian, and poet, and she used all of those tools to demolish patriarchy -- or any idea that domination is natural -- in its most defended place, which is religion," said Gloria Steinem.
Dr. Daly, whose relationship with Boston College grew tempestuous as she insisted that only women could take her classes, died Sunday in Wachusett Manor nursing home in Gardner. She was 81 and her health had failed in the past few years, including recent paralysis due to a neurological condition.
" 'The Church and the Second Sex' was every bit as important in the Catholic world as Betty Friedan's 'The Feminine Mystique,' " said James Carroll, an author and columnist for the Globe's opinion pages who formerly was a Catholic priest.
Sister Joan Chittister, a feminist author and a member of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie, Pa., said Dr. Daly "literally turned the standard theological concepts upside down. Mary played with language in such a way that you simply had to stop and think. ... You couldn't use old words in the old ways."
Coining words with an Irish wit that could slip from sly to savage, Dr. Daly dismissed college officials as "bore-ocrats" who suffered from "academentia" and "predictably reacted with 'misterical' behavior" -- all in a 1996 autobiographical article for The New Yorker magazine. But beyond her choices to capitalize certain words and remold others like clay, she was deeply serious about language and the way it shapes a sense of self.
"Ever since childhood, I have been honing my skills for living the life of a Radical Feminist Pirate and cultivating the Courage to Sin," she wrote in the opening of "Sin Big," her New Yorker piece. "The word 'sin' is derived from the Indo-European root 'es-,' meaning 'to be.' When I discovered this etymology, I intuitively understood that for a woman trapped in patriarchy, which is the religion of the entire planet, 'to be' in the fullest sense is 'to sin.' "
Dr. Daly's career at BC, where she joined the theology department faculty in 1966, ultimately ended over what administrators, and many public commentators, saw as her sin of exclusivity. After the college went co-ed in the early 1970s, she only allowed women to take her classes, teaching a few men privately over the years.
She said the presence of men clouded the learning environment, and that a women-only classroom fell within the bounds of academic freedom.
"If a man were in the class he would be very likely to say, 'Oh, no. I am oppressed too.' ... He would say, 'I can't cry. I'm not allowed to express myself, wah, wah,' " she told the Globe in 1999.
The dispute spilled into the courts in the late 1990s when a male student hired a lawyer after Dr. Daly bared him from her class. The college tried to force her into retirement and she sued, claiming breach of contract.
In previous years, Dr. Daly had successfully fought BC's attempt to deny her tenure. This time, she and the college reached a settlement in 2001 and, at 72, she agreed to retire.
Those who knew Dr. Daly and her work, however, say the acrimonious dispute didn't diminish her contributions to feminist philosophy.
"I think she was a central figure for the feminist movement in the 20th century, and hopefully beyond," said Robin Morgan, who edited Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings From the Women's Liberation Movement." "She had a fierce intellect and an uncompromising soul that sometimes gave even her most loving friends indigestion, but it was worth it. She redefined the parameters of philosophy. She called herself a feminist philosopher, and she really was -- she was the first.''
Chittister said: "Her legacy is a cloud of women witnesses and male theologians, too, who have now been released into whole new understandings of what the tradition really holds and really means for all of us, male and female. She was a great thinker, she was a great icon. She will be maligned by some, but history will see her very differently."
Dr. Daly grew up in Schenectady, N.Y., where her father was a traveling salesman, selling ice cream freezers. She wrote in The New Yorker that her mother, who "had been 'yanked out' of high school during her sophomore year," encouraged her to find a life outside the realm of housework.
Though she found academia generally inhospitable to a woman who wanted to study theology in the 1950s, she graduated from the College of Saint Rose in Albany, N.Y., with a bachelor's degree, received a master's in English at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and a doctorate from St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, Ind.
Teaching a few years left her unfulfilled, so she went to the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, where she studied philosophy and theology and "accumulated four degrees,'' she wrote.
"I was getting ready to Sin Big," she wrote in The New Yorker.
Her other books included "Gyn/Ecology, the Metaethics of Radical Feminism" (1978), "Pure Lust: Elemental Feminist Philosophy" (1984), and "Websters' First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language," which she called "a dictionary for Wicked women" that she wrote with Jane Caputi in 1987.
One of Dr. Daly's caregivers was reading to her from the "Wickedary" when she died Sunday.
"She basically fairly clearly defined the outer limits of radical feminist theology," said Robert Daly, who chaired the theology department during much of Dr. Daly's tenure and was not related to her. "People around the world are generally grateful for her having done that."
An only child, Dr. Daly had no immediate survivors. Friends plan to schedule a memorial service, but noted that she had her own ideas of how her death should be marked.
"It was Mary's wish that if women or people want to memorialize her in any way they should stay in their own locality and have a get-together where they read or discuss her work," said Linda Barufaldi of San Diego, one of several former graduate students of Dr. Daly's who cared for her as her health declined.
Said Steinem: "In the way that painters and artists become more valuable after they're gone, I hope Mary will be kept alive by people going to her work."
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