Works by Mary Daly: A Bibliography

Books

Amazon Grace: Re-Calling the Courage to Sin Big. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women’s Liberation. Boston: Beacon, 1973. Reprinted, with an “Original Reintroduction,” Boston: Beacon, 1985. Published in the United Kingdom with “Original Reintroduction,” London: Women’s Press, 1986.

The Church and the Second Sex. New York: Harper and Row, 1968. Reprinted, with an “Autobiographical Preface to the Colophon Edition” and “Feminist Postchristian Introduction,” New York: Harper Colophon, 1975. Reprinted, with a “New Archaic Afterwords,” in The Church and the Second Sex: With the Feminist Postchristian Introduction and New Archaic Afterwords by the Author, Boston: Beacon, 1985.

Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism. Boston: Beacon, 1978. Reprinted, with a “New Intergalactic Introduction by the Author,” Boston: Beacon, 1990. Published in the United Kingdom, London: Women’s Press, 1979.

Outercourse: The Bedazzling Voyage, Containing Recollections from My Logbook of a Radical Feminist Philosopher. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992.

Pure Lust: Elemental Feminist Philosophy. Boston: Beacon, 1984. Reprint, San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992. Published in the United Kingdom, London: Women’s Press, 1984.

Quintessence . . . Realizing the Archaic Future: A Radical Elemental Feminist Manifesto. Boston: Beacon, 1998.

Websters’ First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language. Conjured in Cahoots with Jane Caputi. Boston: Beacon, 1987. Published in the United Kingdom, London: Women’s Press, 1988, and in Ireland, Dublin: Attic Press, 1988.

Articles

“Abortion and Sexual Caste.” Commonweal 95, no. 18 (February 4, 1972): 415–19.

“African Genital Mutilation: The Unspeakable Atrocities.” In The Gender Reader, edited by Evelyn Ashton-Jones, Gary A. Olson, and Merry Perry, 462–85. 2nd ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2000.

“After the Death of God the Father: Women’s Liberation and the Transformation of Christian Consciousness.” Commonweal 94, no. 1 (March 12, 1971): 7–11. Reprinted in Feminism in Our Time: The Essential Writings, World War II to the Present, ed. Miriam Schneir, 260–71. New York: Vintage, 1994.

“Antifeminism in the Church.” Information Documentation on the Conciliar Church No. 68–44 (1968).

“Be-Friending: The Lust to Share Happiness.” In For Lesbians Only: A Separatist Anthology, edited by Sarah Lucia Hoagland and Julia Penelope, 200–211. London: Onlywomen Press, 1988.

“Be-Friending: Weaving Contexts, Creating Atmospheres.” In Weaving the Visions: New Patterns in Feminist Spirituality, edited by Judith Plaskow and Carol P. Christ, 199–207. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1989.

“Be-Laughing.” Woman of Power 8 (Winter 1988): 76–80.

“A Built-in Bias: The Forgotten Sex.” Commonweal 81, no. 16 (January 15, 1965): 508–11.

“A Call for the Castration of Sexist Religion.” Unitarian Universalist Christian 27 (Autumn/Winter 1972): 23–27.

“Christian Mission after the Death of God.” In Demands for Christian Renewal, edited by William J. Wilson, 1–18. New York: Maryknoll, 1968.

“The Courage to Leave: A Response to John Cobb’s Theology.” In John Cobb’s Theology in Process, edited by D. R. Griffin and T. J. J. Altizer, 84–98. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1977.

“The Courage to See.” Christian Century 88, no. 38 (September 22, 1971): 1108–11.

“Dispensing with Trivia.” Commonweal 88, no. 11 (May 31, 1968): 322–25.

Foreword to Woman, Church and State, by Matilda Joslyn Gage, vii-x. Watertown, MA: Persephone, 1980.

“God Is a Verb.” Ms., December 1974, 58–62, 96–98.

“Gyn/Ecology: Spinning New Time/Space.” In The Politics of Women’s Spirituality: Essays on the Rise of Spiritual Power within the Feminist Movement, edited by Charlene Spretnak, 207–12. New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1982.

“Hans Kung.” In The New Day: Catholic Theologians of the Renewal, edited by William J. Boney and Lawrence E. Molumby, 129–42. Richmond: John Knox, 1968.

“I Thank Thee, Lord, That Thou Has Not Created Me a Woman.” In The Gender Reader, edited by Evelyn Ashton-Jones, Gary A. Olson, and Merry Perry, 164–68. 2nd ed., Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2000.

“The Looking Glass Society.” In Feminist Theology: A Reader, edited by Ann Loades, 189–94. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1990.

“A Manifestation of Goddess.” On the Issues 7, no. 2 (Spring 1998): 14–15.

“Mary Daly on the Church: Questions and Answers and Questions and Answers.” Commonweal 91, no. 7 (November 14, 1969): 215.

“Post-Christian Theology: Some Connections between Idolatry and Methodolatry, between Deicide and Methodicide.” In Women and Religion 1973, edited by Joan Arnold Romero, 33–38. Tallahassee, FL: American Academy of Religion/Scholars’ Press, 1973.

“Prelude to the First Passage.” Feminist Studies 4, no. 3 (1978): 81–86.

“The Problem of Hope: Can We Judge the Theology of Hope an Unmixed Blessing?” Commonweal 92, no. 14 (June 26, 1970): 314–17.

“The Problem of Speculative Theology.” Thomist 29 (1965): 177–216.

“The Qualitative Leap beyond Patriarchal Religion.” Quest 1, no. 4 (Spring 1975): 20–40. Republished in Women and Values: Readings in Recent Feminist Philosophy, edited by Marilyn Pearsall, 198–210. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1986.

“Return of the Protestant Principle: The Stakes: The Survival of Christianity.” Commonweal 90, no. 12 (June 6, 1969): 338–41.

“Separation: Room of One’s Own.” In For Lesbians Only: A Separatist Anthology, edited by Sarah Lucia Hoagland and Julia Penelope, 367–71. London: Onlywomen Press, 1988.

“A Short Essay on Hearing and the Qualitative Leap of Radical Feminism.” Horizons 2 (1975): 120–24.

“Sin Big.” New Yorker, February 26–March 4, 1996, 76–84.

“Sisterhood as a Cosmic Covenant.” In The Politics of Women’s Spirituality: Essays on the Rise of Spiritual Power Within the Feminist Movement, edited by Charlene Spretnak, 351–61. New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1982.

“Sparking: The Fire of Female Friendship.” Chrysalis 6 (1978): 27–35.

“Spiraling into the Nineties.” Woman of Power 17 (1990): 6–12.

“The Spiritual Dimension of Women’s Liberation.” In Notes from the Third Year: Women’s Liberation, edited by Anne Koedt and Shulamith Firestone. New York: n.p., 1971. Reprinted in Radical Feminism, edited by Anne Koedt, Ellen Levine, and Anita Rapone, 259–67. New York: Quadrangle, 1973. Reprinted in Feminist Knowledge: Critique and Construct, edited by Sneja Gunew, 335–41. London: Routledge, 1991.

“The Spiritual Revolution: Women’s Liberation as Theological Re-education.” Andover Newton Quarterly 12 (1972): 163–72 and Notre Dame Journal of Education 2 (1972): 300–312. Reprinted in Feminist Theological Ethics: A Reader, edited by Lois K. Daly, 121–34. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1994.

“Theology after the Demise of God the Father: A Call for the Castration of Sexist Religion.” In Women and Religion, edited by Judith Plaskow and Joan Arnold, 3–19. Rev ed. Missoula, MT: American Academy of Religion/Scholars Press, 1974. Also in Sexist Religion and Women in the Church: No More Silence!, edited by Alice L. Ageman, 125–42. New York: Association Press, 1974.

“Toward Partnership in the Church.” In Voices of the New Feminism, edited by Mary Lou Thompson, 136–51. Boston: Beacon, 1970.

“The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action.” Panel presentation, Lesbians and Literature section of the Modern Language Association 1977 meeting. Sinister Wisdom 6 (1978): 5–11.

“Underground Theology: An Exchange of Views.” Commonweal 88, no. 18 (August 9, 1968): 532–34, a response to Aquinas Ferrara.

“Vorwort zur deutschen Ausgabe von Beyond God the Father.” In Jenseits von Gottvater Sohn & Co.: Aufbruch zu einer Philosophie der Frauenbefreiung, 5–10. Munich: Frauenoffensive, 1980.

“Why Speak about God?” In Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion, edited by Carol Christ and Judith Plaskow, 210–18. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1979.

“The Witches Return: Patriarchy on Trial.” In Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed, edited by Diana Bell and Renate Klein, 551–56. North Melbourne, Australia: Spinifex, 1996.

“Women and the Catholic Church.” In Sisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women’s Liberation Movement, edited by Robin Morgan, 124–38. New York: Random House, 1970.

“Women and the Church.” Commonweal 79, no. 20 (1964): 603.

“The Women’s Movement: An Exodus Community.” Religious Education 67, no. 5 (September–October 1972): 327–35. Republished in Women and Religion: A Feminist Sourcebook of Christian Thought, edited by Elizabeth Clark and Herbert Richardson, 265–71. New York: Harper and Row, 1977.

“Zeroing in on Freedom: Can the Charles Currans Be Freed?” Commonweal 86, no. 11 (June 2, 1967): 316–17.

Theses/Dissertations

Natural Knowledge of God in the Philosophy of Jacques Maritain: A Critical Study. Rome: Officium Libri Catholici, Catholic Book Agency, 1966.

The Problem of Speculative Theology. Washington: Thomist Press, 1965.

Translations

Beyond God the Father

Dutch: Voorbij God de Vader: Op weg naar een feministische bevrijdingsfilosofie. Translated by Else Pars, Trudi Klijn, and Catharina J. M. Halkes. Amsterdam: De Horstink, 1983.

German: Jenseits von Gottvater Sohn & Co.: Aufbruch zu einer Philosophie der Frauenbefreiung. Translated by Marianne Reppekus and Barbara Henninges. Munich: Frauenoffensive, 1980.

Italian: Al di là di Dio Padre: Verso una filosofia della liberazione delle donne. Rome: Editori Riuniti,1990.

Korean: Hananim Abŏji rŭl nŏmŏsŏ: Yŏsŏngdŭl ŭi haebang ch’ŏrhak ŭl hyanghayŏ. Translated by Hye-suk Hwang. Seoul: Ihwa Yŏja Taehakkyo Ch’ulp’anbu, 1996.

The Church and the Second Sex

French: Le deuxième sexe conteste. Translated by Suzanne Valles. Tours: Mame, 1969; Montréal: HMH, 1969.

German: Kirche, Frau und Sexus. Translated by Dietgard Erb. Olten: Walter-Verlag, 1970.

Italian: La Chiesa e il secondo sesso. Translated by Liliana Lanzarini. Milan: Rizzoli, 1982.

Korean: Kyohoe wa che-2 ŭi sŏng. Translated by Hye-suk Hwang. Seoul: Yŏsŏng Sinmunsa, 1997.

Gyn/Ecology

German: Gyn/Ökologie: Eine Meta-Ethik des radikalen Feminismus. Translated by Erika Wisselinck. Munich: Frauenoffensive, 1980.

Outercourse

German: Auswärts reisen: Die strahlkräftige Fahrt; darin Erinnerungen aus meinem Logbuch einer radikalen feministischen Philosophin. Translated by Erika Wisselinck. Munich: Frauenoffensive, 1994.

Pure Lust

German: Reine Lust: Elemental-feministische Philosophie. Translated by Erika Wisselinck. Munich: Frauenoffensive, 1986.

Quintessence

Italian: Quintessenza: Realizzare il future arcaico: Un manifesto femminista elementare radicale. Rome: Venexia, 2006.

Translations of Articles

“El Antifeminismo en la Iglesia.” Rome: Información y documentación sobre la Iglesia Conciliar, 1969.

“El cristianismo: Una história de contradicciones.” Translated by Elena Olivos. In Del cielo a la tierra: Una antología de teología feminista, edited by Mary Judith Ress, Ute Seibert-Cuadra, and Lene Sjørup, 61–96. Santiago: Sello Azul, Editorial de Mujeres, 1994. Chapter from The Church and the Second Sex. Also available at http://servicioskoinonia.org/.

“Después de la muerte de Dios Padre: La liberación de las mujeres y la transformación de la conciencia cristiana.” Translated by Ondina Victoriano. In Del cielo a la tierra: Una antología de teología feminista, edited by Mary Judith Ress, Ute Seibert-Cuadra, and Lene Sjørup. Santiago: Sello Azul, Editorial de Mujeres, 1994, pp. 97–105.

Notes pour une ontologie du féminisme radical. Translated by Michèle Causse. Outremont, Québec: L’Intégrale, 1982. Published as a pamphlet.

“Der qualitative Sprung über die patriarchale Religion.” Translated by Barbara Henninges. Frauenoffensive Journal (Munich) 9 (1978): 2–13; republished in Frau und Religion: Gotteserfahrungen im Patriarchat; mit Texten von Gertrud Bäumer, Lily Braun, Mary Daly, Hedwig Dohm, Ricarda Huch, Louise Otto-Peters, Anna Paulsen, Luise Rinser, Dorothee Sölle, edited by Elisabeth Moltmann-Wendel, 110–23. Frankfurt: Fischer Taschenbuch-Verlag, 1984.

“El salto caulitativo más allá de la religión patriarchal.” Translated by Elena Olivos. In Del cielo a la tierra: Una antología de teología feminista, edited by Mary Judith Ress, Ute Seibert-Cuadra, and Lene Sjørup, 106–25. Santiago: Sello Azul, Editorial de Mujeres, 1994. Translation of article from Quest entitled “The Qualitative Leap beyond Patriarchal Religion.”

Interviews

Bridle, Susan. “No Man’s Land: An Interview with Mary Daly.” What Is Enlightenment 16 (1999). Reprinted in the Catholic New Times, March 7, 2011, 4.

Madsen, Catherine. “The Thin Thread of Conversation: An Interview with Mary Daly.” CrossCurrents 50, no. 3 (2000): 332–48.