Pure lust : elemental feminist philosophy
Mary Daly is one of the most exhilarating and imaginative feminist thinkers of our time. She is also a raging Fury, a Nag-Hag, a Crone. In Pure Lust - which is the female lust for change, as opposed to Cockocracy, the Phallic State - she extends the 'deviant philosophy' developed in her classic Gyn/Ecology. She refers to Websters' First Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language in order to deconstruct/reconstruct our speech and expose the assumptions behind our thought processes. She uncovers the patriarchal reversals that have made us the inheritors of a belief system of the absurd, in which Jesus is manifested as a male pseudo-goddess and the Pope as a male Great Mother. She exhorts us to the Courage to Sin, to break out of the guilt and fear in which the male sadosociety entraps us and to dis-cover the States of Natural Grace
Print Book, English, 1984
Women's Press, London, 1984