Spinning Survival with Witch Words: What Mary Daly Taught Me about Theological Language.
Though the play of Mary Daly's use of language has been both praised and problematized, theoretical analyses of her linguistic interventions remain largely underdeveloped. This essay aims to make sense of Daly's poetic, playful employment of language by reading it through Judith Butler's notion of p...
| Published in: | Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion (Indiana University Press) Vol. 35; no. 2; pp. 23 - 40 |
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