Mary%20Daly

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Mary Daly

• Points of Identification with her life
• Thought before she was bornDavid and the Psalm ?
  (abortion)
• Religion Institutional Experiences
• Paul Tillich
• Misogamy of Christianity
• Sonja was denied recognition

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Nature of the World

• Foreground and Background
• Foregroundmisogynistic
• Backgroundwomen move beyond, state of Be-ing
• Foreground Examples
• Catholicism and Christianity-derivative status
• Story of Adam and Eve
• Mary kneeling before her own son
• Other Cultures
• Indian suttee
• Chinese foot binding
• African genital mutilation
• European witch burning
• American gynecology
• husbands funeral pyres

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More Nature of the World

• Background Comments and Examples
• Realm of Wild Realitywhere animate beings
  connect
• In opposition to the Foreground
• Ethic of biophilia
• Biophilic Pure Lust

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More Nature of the World

• Definition of Feminism
• An ontological orientation
• Exposes Oppression
• Open up consciousness to active participation in
  Movement,
• Transcendence, and Happiness
• Feminism is a means to the Be-ing in the
  Background
• Plastic Feminism What about Patriarchy's
  reaction?

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Nature of the Rhetor

• Foreground
• Controlling and bullying women in to submission
• Snoolslegitimizing bore-ocracy and cast of
  characters
• Fixers continually aim to freeze life
• Plug-uglies-exs Rapists, pimps wife-beaters,
  hatchet-men like
• physicans and surgeons, scientists, military
  experts
• Wantwitslack the qualities of sense and
  intelligence,
• foolocracy
• Background
• Traveling Companions or Lusty Spirits that voyage
  along and Name
• be-ing
• Names of Lusty BeingsHags, Crones, Spinster,
  Fates, Gnomes,
• Salamanders, Scolds, Shrews, Soothsayers,
  Virgins, Websters

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More About Names of Lusty Beings
Salamandersmythical and not clearly defined
animal having the power to endure fire with out
harm Application Questions Is scholarly,
legal, medical, governmental terminology any
different? Any Examples? What about
acronyms? Adolph Eichmann, Hannah Arendt and
Eichmann of Jerusalem
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Rhetorical Options

• In the Foreground
• Ritualistic Violence toward Women patterns over
  the years
• Suttie
• Silencing and Erasing Womens Voices pseudo
  generic terms
• doctors and their wives
• Fixing Women's Images Cosmo Girls, Playboy
  bunnies
• Refusing to See the Problem there are bigger
  problems like
• pollutionyet is there a connection?
• Reversal Adams rib makes him the first mother
• Elementary Terms
• Mummiesperpetuate old like civilization or
  mystery
• Dummiescopy like plant for nuclear power plant
• Anti-bodiesremoved from nature of thing like
  saint for
• satellite Interceptor

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Rhetorical Options

• In the Background a continual battle exists
  between foreground and background
• Metaphor a new logic
• Redefinition spinster--women who can spin
• Capitalization adds emphasis for background
  words
• Spelling/Be-Spelling to the change the shape
  like gynecology for
• Gyn/Ecology
• Grammar/Sin-Tactics questions the authority of
  that word order dictates
• Pronunciation denouncing, pronouncing, and
  announcing
• Spooking, Sparking, and Spinning
• Be-Laughing to nix, veto

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Transformation of Rhetorical Theory

• Exigenceseveral at once in any situation
• Realm for Rhetoricbackground is a vital site
• Rhetornonhuman entities
• Audience Adaptationto move the wrong way