from Mary Daly, Gyn / Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism (1978)
3 deceptive perceptions were / are implanted through language--the all-pervasive language of myth.... Thus, for example, the
from Mary Daly, Gyn / Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism (1978)
3 deceptive perceptions were / are implanted through language--the all-pervasive language of myth.... Thus, for example, the word spinster is commonly used as a deprecating term, but it can only function this way when apprehended exclusively on a superficial (foreground) level. Its deep meaning... is clear and strong: "a woman whose occupation is to spin."... A woman whose occupation is to spin participates in the whirling movement of creation....
4 Spinsters can find our way back to reality by destroying the false perceptions of it inflicted upon us by the language and myths of Babel.... This is unmasked when we begin to see through patriarchal language. Thus, the Latin term texere, meaning to weave, is the origin and root both for textile and text....
5 If we look at the term text in contrast to textile.... "Texts" are the kingdom of males; they are the realm of the reified word, of condensed spirit. In patriarchal tradition, sewing and spinning are for girls; books are for boys.