Erik Graff's Reviews > Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism
Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism
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I read this immediately upon finishing Daly's 'Beyond God the Father'. It was more difficult and less enjoyable. One difficulty was that she no longer appeared to be addressing me, but only females. My desire is to transcend gender in the sense of approaching an ability to embrace and identify with all possible genderings, not to get into my "maleness" as natively distinct from an antithetical "femaleness". Daly seems to buy into the scheme that there is a real ontological difference and then to celebrate the one while mocking the supposed other. Another difficulty is that she plays with language, substituting gyno-gendered neologisms which are supposed to parallel existing andro-gendered words. I read quickly by habit and it was impossible to do the thinking she was demanding quickly. Consequently, I read in fits and starts, normally for a while, missing a lot of her points, then slowly occasionally in order to ponder what she was trying to do. Finally, I had trouble with her sense of humor. I didn't find it funny.
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Started Reading
August 1, 1998
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Finished Reading
February 23, 2010
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February 23, 2010
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