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Article: Outercourse: The Be-Dazzling Voyage.
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- February 5, 1993
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Energetic Outercourse short on discourse
Mary Daly's Outercourse is as audacious and energetic as her readers have come to expect. Advertised as a philosophical biography, as "an account of my time/space travels and ideas," Outercourse seems both more and less than that.
A great deal of the power of the book emerges from Daly's now well-established literary style, in which she creates/re-creates language more appropriate for conveying her content than is the inherited language developed within and for patriarchy. Her style can seem disturbing and cumbersome at first; new languages always do. But perseverance pays off. By the second half of the book, ...