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Websters' First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language
by
Mary Daly
Mary Daly's brilliant, wild, and humor-filled weave of words, which frees the English language from its patriarchal and confining patterns by weaving a fascinating, feminist, linguistic revolution.
Hardcover, 310 pages
Published
by Beacon Press (MA)
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I've heard a lot of people call Mary Daly a misandrist. I say that's nonsense. She also hates any woman who is trans and/or disagrees with her. Which would be most women. But I digress.
Not only is this book misanthropic, but it's unreadable. Her attempts to be clever came off as obnoxious, someone needs to take her shift and hyphen keys away from her, and the illustrations (by Jane Caputi) are hideous. For someone who only likes cis women who agree with her, she has quite the fixation on the pha...more
Not only is this book misanthropic, but it's unreadable. Her attempts to be clever came off as obnoxious, someone needs to take her shift and hyphen keys away from her, and the illustrations (by Jane Caputi) are hideous. For someone who only likes cis women who agree with her, she has quite the fixation on the pha...more
Feb 22, 2008
Kirsten Kowalewski
rated it
3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
feminist theologians and language lovers
Shelves:
nonfiction
I had read a bunch of other Mary Daly and loved how she played with/reclaimed/invented words, so I was really looking forward to her Wickedary. It is structurally very confusing as a dictionary, because instead of going alphabetically she creates 'word webs' preceded by long prose passages.
When I was initially reading her stuff I thought she was really revolutionary in her approach and I know she had to prove her worth over and over again... I didn't see her anger so much as her creativity. As...more
When I was initially reading her stuff I thought she was really revolutionary in her approach and I know she had to prove her worth over and over again... I didn't see her anger so much as her creativity. As...more
Jan 29, 2013
Meagan
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
young women, feminists, witches, lesbians, men, etymologists
I was lucky as a budding witch to find a copy of this. I began to think about the words I used in ritual in a whole new way. The concept of deciding how we interact with reality through speech is only now coming into study by modern chaos, memetic & mnemonic magicians. Ms. Daly, as always, ahead of us on the curve, pointing out the sights we shouldn't miss.
May 01, 2011
Elizabeth
marked it as to-read
trade paper good condition
Fun approach.
Just a lot of fun
Mar 05, 2008
Jana
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Recommends it for:
people who collect/worship words
really really fun book: daly and co-writer take words and play games with them, around the themes of feminism. word-game-alicious with new takes on themes that make your head spin! i take it in, sift out the generalizations of "all men..." and suck on the new word ideas.
Something between a dictionary and a manifesto, The Wickedary should be in the library of anyone who reads Mary Daly's work. The word-play is phenomenal, the book's structure embraces hypertext, and the definitions are wickedly delightful.
Biting and delicious, sarcastic sassin' of the man, a feminist Devil's Dictionary, I love it so!
Jan 04, 2013
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Mary Daly was an American radical feminist philosopher, academic, and theologian. Daly, who described herself as a "radical lesbian feminist", taught at Boston College, a Jesuit-run institution, for 33 years. Daly consented to retire from Boston College in 1999, after violating university policy by refusing to allow male students in her advanced women's studies classes. She allowed male students i...more
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