Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism

Excerpts from Gyn/Ecology (1978) by Mary Daly, PhD: The Dionysian solution for women, which is violation of our own Hag-ocratic boundaries, is The Final Solution. To succumb to this seductive invitation is to become incorporated into the Mystical Body of Maledom, that is, to become “living” dead women, forever pumping our own blood into the Heav­enly Head, giving head to the Holy Host, losing our heads. The demonic power of Dionysian deception hinges on this invita­tion to incorporation/assimilation, resulting in inability to draw our own lines. To accept this invitation is to become unhinged, dismembered. Refusing is essential to the process of the Self’s re-membering, re-fusing. The madness which is the Dionysian Final Solution for women is confusion—inability to distinguish the female Self and her process from the male-made masquerade. Dionysus sometimes assumed a girl-like form. The phenomenon of the drag queen dramatically demonstrates such boundary vio­lation. Like whites playing

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