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Mary Daly grew up an Irish Catholic and all of her education was received through Catholic schools.

She has three doctorate degrees.

One from St. Mary ’ s College in sacred theology, and two from University of Fribourg, Switzerland in theology and philosophy.

From 1966 till the end of her career she taught at Boston College.

While in her early works Daly expressed a desire to reform Christianity from the inside, she would later come to the same point as several other feminists, that Christianity is not able to enact the necessary changes as it is.

( Prologue Daly ).

“ On November 14, 1971, when she was invited to be the first woman to preach at Harvard Memorial Chapel.

She used the opportunity to denounce Christianity as irredeemable for women and to call for women ( and men ) to make an exodus from the Church.

Almost all the women who attended this service walked out with her, as well as a few men .” Her works include: The Church and the Second Sex ( 1968 ), Beyond God the Father ( 1973 ), Gyn / ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism ( 1978 ), Pure Lust: Elemental Feminist Philosophy ( 1984 ), Webster ’ s First Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language ( 1987 ), and Outercourse: The Be-Dazzling Voyage ( 1992 ).

According to Ford ’ s The Modern Theologians, “ Mary Daly has done more than anyone to clarify the problems women have concerning the central core symbolism of Chrisianity, and its effects on their self-understanding and their relationship to God .”