I like Mary Daly's psychological insights and I think she has a good anthropological and historical analysis of patriarchal power and how it has affected women in different cultures and over the ages.
I disagree at the point where she turns her insights into a form of essentialism, and also where she develops anti-technological conspiracy theories. I don't think that women are ontologically so different from men. We are systematically tricked and trapped into accepting patriarchal metaphysics. Power structures and social conditioning lead women into these traps presided over by a male deity.
Her anti-technological turn is also less than helpful. Contraception is not the enemy of women, as the arch-patriarchs of USA society have belatedly come to understand.
There is also little point in developing a matriarchal theocracy, as she is inclined to want to do. Rather, we need a more profound understanding of logic and rationality and why patriarchal values, expectations and thought processes are irrational.
I disagree at the point where she turns her insights into a form of essentialism, and also where she develops anti-technological conspiracy theories. I don't think that women are ontologically so different from men. We are systematically tricked and trapped into accepting patriarchal metaphysics. Power structures and social conditioning lead women into these traps presided over by a male deity.
Her anti-technological turn is also less than helpful. Contraception is not the enemy of women, as the arch-patriarchs of USA society have belatedly come to understand.
There is also little point in developing a matriarchal theocracy, as she is inclined to want to do. Rather, we need a more profound understanding of logic and rationality and why patriarchal values, expectations and thought processes are irrational.
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