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" Patriarchy perpetuates its crimes through "denial, tokenism, obfuscation and reversal" and traps its victims (particularly the women) in the semantic web of lies which, in the words of Daly, "constitutes the reality of the Foreground, and obscures ultimate reality, which is the Background." She advises women to take a leap of faith to break free from the necrophilic embrace of patriarchy to dis-cover their true human potential and "reclaim their primordial power, their gynergy, in order to spin new, gynocentric and biophilic realities."

Utopian Society of the Future:

Another controversial theory advanced by Daly in her book, Quintessence, describes a utopian society of the future, on a continent populated entirely by women, where procreation occurs through parthenogenesis, without the participation of men. She further asserts, "If life is to survive on this planet, there must be a decontamination of the Earth. I think this will be accompanied by an evolutionary process that will result in a drastic reduction of the population of males."

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Biography of Mary Daly." (n.d.) Radical Elemental Feminist. Retrieved on August 25, 2007 at http://www.marydaly.net/biography.html

Bridle, Susan. (1998). "No Man's Land." An Interview with Mary Daly: Enlightened Magazine.

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Daly, Mary. (1985). Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation. Beacon Press: Boston, 1985

1968). The Church and the Second Sex. Beacon Press: Boston, 1968.

1998). Quintessence. Beacon Press: Boston, 1968.

McMahon, David. (1999). "Mary Daly." The Boston Collaborative Encyclopedia of Modern Western Theology. Retrieved on August 25, 2007 at http://people.bu.edu/wwildman/WeirdWildWeb/courses/mwt/dictionary/mwt_themes_905_daly.htm

Mary Daly (1968), the Church and the Second Sex, p. 8

Biography of Mary Daly, Radical Elemental Feminist, http://www.marydaly.net/biography.html

Quintessence (1998)

The quote is from Daly's autobiographical, Outercourse (1992)

Mary Daly (1968), the Church and the Second Sex, p. 66-68

David McMahon (1999). "Mary Daly." The Boston Collaborative Encyclopedia of Modern Western Theology

Mary Daly (1985) Beyond God the Father, p. 13

Daly insists on spelling all religions and philosophies with small letters

Susan Bridle. "No Man's Land." http://www.wie.org/j16/daly.asp

David McMahon (1999). "Mary Daly." The Boston Collaborative Encyclopedia of Modern Western Theology

Susan Bridle. "No Man's Land." http://www.wie.org/j16/daly.asp

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