'God' can be used oppressively against women in a number of ways…[one way is by an] overt manner when theologians proclaim women's subordination to be God's will. The symbol of the Father God, spawned in the human imagination and sustained as plausible by patriarchy, has in turn rendered service to this type of society by making its mechanisms for the oppression of women appear right and fitting. If God in his heaven is a father ruling his people, then it is in the nature of things and according to divine plan and the order of the universe that society be male-dominated.
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Mary Daly was a 19th-century Australian writer and humanitarian. Dame Mary Dora Daly, was an Australian writer, humanitarian and charity worker. Read more on Wikipedia →