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Mary Daly. Points of Identification with her life: Thought before she was born—David and the Psalm ? (abortion) Religion Institutional Experiences Paul Tillich Misogamy of Christianity Sonja was denied recognition. Nature of the World. Foreground and Background: Foreground—misogynistic - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Mary Daly
Points of Identification with her life:
•Thought before she was born—David and the Psalm ? (abortion)
•Religion Institutional Experiences
•Paul Tillich
•Misogamy of Christianity
•Sonja was denied recognition
Nature of the World
Foreground and Background:1. Foreground—misogynistic2. Background—women move beyond, state of Be-ing3. 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
More Nature of the World
Background Comments and Examples:
•Realm of Wild Reality—where animate beings connect
•In opposition to the Foreground
•Ethic of biophilia
•Biophilic Pure Lust
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?
Nature of the Rhetor
Foreground:Controlling and bullying women in to submission•Snools—legitimizing 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•Wantwits—lack the “qualities of sense and intelligence, foolocracy
Background:•Traveling Companions or Lusty Spirits that voyage along and Name be-ing•Names of Lusty Beings—Hags, Crones, Spinster, Fates, Gnomes, Salamanders, Scolds, Shrews, Soothsayers, Virgins, Websters
More About Names of Lusty Beings
Salamanders—mythical 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”
Rhetorical OptionsIn the Foreground:
•Ritualistic Violence toward Women: patterns over the years— Suttie•Silencing and Erasing Women’s 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 pollution—yet is there a connection?•Reversal: Adam’s rib makes him the first mother•Elementary Terms:
•Mummies—perpetuate old like civilization or mystery•Dummies—copy like plant for nuclear power plant•Anti-bodies—removed from nature of thing like saint for “satellite Interceptor
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
Transformation of Rhetorical Theory
•Exigence—several at once in any situation
•Realm for Rhetoric—background is a vital site
•Rhetor—nonhuman entities
•Audience Adaptation—to move the wrong way