I think the comments would be better directed to Mary Daly and her impact on our theology and our lives. So I cannot think relevant anything about medieval scholasticism, the methods of the social sciences,  of the interplay between  metaphysics and physics.  She was surely an outrageous theologian and no male students ever took up her offer to teach them privately (I think). She did overstate her critiques. But she did make everybody, who could hear, listen to her basic criticism about entrenched cultural patriarchy and misogyny. I think Merton met his match in Rosemary Radford Reuther, who challenged him on hiding behind his monk's robes, even as he was so critical of his own monastic order. Her advice was for him to leave his "hermitage" and enter the world of men and women.