ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the life history of Mary Daly, a feminist thinker, who is a prominent philosopher-activist of US second-wave feminism, challenged mainstream religions for oppressing women and conceptualized a wildly original Radical Feminist metaethics. In 1967, she began teaching theology and ethics at Boston College. At this Jesuit institution, she gained a national and international reputation for her feminist scholarship in religion and philosophy and also for her pedagogical practices. Throughout her life, Daly remained committed to writing and living a Radical Feminist philosophy that not only represents physical and metaphysical Truths of women but also provides women a method for discovering their Selves and, in the process, discovering and creating "a world other than patriarchy". Merging poetic wordplay with a philosophical impulse to define and classify, Daly's metaethics offers women methods for recognizing and re-cognizing patriarchal foreground truths and Spinning into Radical Feminist Background Truths, culminating in each woman's Being.
