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Jans' post of:
I would be very interested in reading of this individual's intergration work in Ireland. I too am interested in what is happening to Prue.
At this point , what Prue has advocated is to allow the membership to debate this policy idea. I think it is very democratic of him and shows leadership. It also makes me realize that some on the executive are concerned that it might well get wide support and thus the prevention of allowing this to come to the floor for debate in the last 4 conventions. That's very sad for a political party to prides itself on grassroots democracy.
is a good place to start a new thread, as the exploring of why would the executive block it coming to the convention floor for debate is needed, IMV.
"... Irish beggars are to be met everywhere, and they are as ignorant and vicious as they are poor. They are lazy, improvident and unthankful; they fill our poorhouses and our prisons, and are as brutish in their superstition as Hindoos."– Newspaper editor George Brown
In 1844, Egerton Ryerson, an English-born Methodist, became chief superintendent of schools for Upper Canada (Ontario), charged with setting up a system of "common" or public schools. By public, read Protestant. A few Catholic schools run by the church and paid for by the community would be allowed on the side.
Ryerson promised that a public system would prevent a "pestilence of social insubordination and disorder" being spread by the "untaught and idle pauper immigration."
Ignorant old bastards they were. The halls of power needed cleaning out long ago.
Since when do convention resolutions dictate party policy? Times must have changed since I left the NDP over that very issue. I'll see it when I believe it.
Inviting the priests to leave the public schools doesn't require a convention debate. It just requires a slim dose of courage, clearly lacking in all the likely candidates for party leader.
"... Irish beggars are to be met everywhere, and they are as ignorant and vicious as they are poor. They are lazy, improvident and unthankful; they fill our poorhouses and our prisons, and are as brutish in their superstition as Hindoos."– Newspaper editor George Brown
The more things change, eh? Maybe old Egerton Ryerson was right:
"Ireland plans to impose tough new penalties on beggars for the first time since the Potato Famine 160 years ago.Justice Minister Dermot Ahern says the measure is necessary because of the growth of professional begging gangs who harass pedestrians. Children often are involved.
Now can we leave the Irish out of this, please? This is distracting nonsense. There is only one religion which has its indoctrination funded by the public purse. It is neither exclusively nor predominantly Irish today.
I think that the Catholic trustees and teachers associations know that if any of the three major political parties put this in their platform, it will be game over. The Catholic trustees and teachers association don't want anybody talking about Catholic school funding or one school system. I'm sure every politician and Priest in the province is watching Prue and the ONDP executive to see what happens.
They know that a lot has changed since 1844 and 1984. Ontarians have seen what declining birth rates and four school systems has meant to the quality of public education and the viability of many communities. A lot changed with the 2007 campaign. Now more people realize its not just Catholic ratepayers who pay for Catholic schools. Now a greater number of voters realize that amalgamation could actually happen and that number is growing daily. People know that Newfoundland & Quebec have paved the way. School boards and individual school councils are passing motions in favour of one school system. Catholic parents sit on these councils.
The people of this province will make education funding a major issue in the next municipal and provincial elections whether the ONDP executive or McGuinty, Wynn & Co want it or not. And it's not going to be easy and it's not going to be pretty sometimes. I am just hoping that a few of our political leaders can see that we should be informed by Canada's history, not bound by it. I hope they recognize that we shouldn't prop up or bailout one of our many failing traditional Christian churches due to misplaced political correctness.
I, like you Jan, realize the critical nature of this issue and its many ramifications. I think the demise of the publicly funded Catholic school system is inevitable. The problem is that if we let this go even one more generation, we will be destroying communities and have nothing left to the public system.
And that is my concern for all the children in our public education system and also the children who are not but might be if we put quality programming as the focus for excellence in education.
I sit in budget deliberations and know that I have to make decisions that effect what happens in my local communities, students and parents. This is about both social and economic policy and they are not separate silos but intertwined.
In a thread else where today, Lord Turn. (sp) linked to this thread from May 2007 -
A related thread. It's not just the private schools that are two-tiered.
So for Wynne "fundraising becomes an important skill." If one rereads that link, babblers were all talking about the amount of fundraising Parent Councils are doing. When parent councils were first formed their objective was not fundraising, now that is still mainly what they do. This is not about frills.
There seems to be a disconnect between the economics of funding education and what folks want. I actually think we have lots of money in education but it is being spent inefficiently - we need to get rid of the silos. I think in my school area that every kid should be able to go to the outdoor education centre for "free" (in other words paid by the school board) rather than costing say, $75.00 per child. Planned educational class trips and bringing in speakers should also be a part of the education as it broadens children's outlook.
I guess I'm of the mind of doing the most of what we have. I can tell you all now, no matter who is in power provincially, allocating of tax dollars is a problem that requires thinking beyond the past ways. I can remember when my kids were very young in the early late 80s and through the Harris years, how tough it was to come with the money to pay these "user fees" that just continue to grow. I cannot image what will happen as we enter the depression of 21st century. Talk to the kids, and they appear a lot brighter about this and they can clearly articuate what is important to them.
Our kids live together and play together in their communities, let's have them learn together too!
I think that the Catholic trustees and teachers associations know that if any of the three major political parties put this in their platform, it will be game over.
Recently, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that shutting down Catholic schools is something Catholic teachers would support! If we stopped paying for the administration and maintenance costs of the Catholic system a lot of money would be freed up, and I mean A LOT. Thus, more jobs for teachers, more funding for students, lower student to teacher ratios, etc. Everybody wins! But the big seller is JOBS.... oh and quality education (sadly this is least considered in many debates). For most Catholic teachers there's no question if it comes down to Jobs or praying to God you had a job.... though I gotta wonder, what would Jesus do?
Our kids live together and play together in their communities, let's have them learn together too!
Did this used to be in your signature line and with the new interface it just looks like part of your post?
Because everytime I read it, I just think of the reverend's wife in the Simpsons yelling "Won't someone please think of the children?!" IMHO It reduces your post to a catchphrase, makes you sound repetitive and minimizes the effect of whatever you are trying to say.
IMHO I disagree. Jan has made invaluable contributions to the subject matter of these threads, and her signature line is a tasteful and non-adversarial summation of the basic thrust of her argument (with which I happen to agree).
Speaking of the subject matter of these threads, did you have any opinions about that, Summer?
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Our kids live together and play together in their communities, let's have them learn together too!
Did this used to be in your signature line and with the new interface it just looks like part of your post?
Because everytime I read it, I just think of the reverend's wife in the Simpsons yelling "Won't someone please think of the children?!" IMHO It reduces your post to a catchphrase, makes you sound repetitive and minimizes the effect of whatever you are trying to say.
Hi Summer, it's part of my profile but I need to figure out how to change it so that folks see that is what it is. The new interface of babble has me somewhat baffled (and many others share that sentiment). Thanks for your opinion
Our kids live together and play together in their communities, let's have them learn together too!
Completely off topic now, but I would like to contribute by saying Jan, one way I have seen other babbalers make their slogan appear as such is to make a line with your dash key above the quote eg/
Our kids live together and play together....
They're not bad people really, just a little misinformed and clinging to tradition. As much as I'd like to see them use their heads with issues surrounding SSM, I'd like for "Christians" in Canada to examine the two old line parties' records in power and how it's affected their god damned communal values and such. Stupid bastards anyway.
And it's why I think there is little the NDP could do to appeal to those voters - that 22 percent of registered Canadian voters who elected Harper nationally and 22 percent in Ontario who elected McGuinty. I think even if we did have someone named Jesus Christ leading the ONDP, it'd still be a tossup with this whacky electoral system steering a lunatic fringe of voters to vote old line party religiously.
So it's best that the NDP represent 78% who do not and that means offering folks a non-denominational platforms where everybody is welcome
Platforms with policies that reflect universal accessible opportunities for all regardless of folks ethnic, racial or cultural backgrounds, social or economic status, individual exceptionality, or religious preference.
And it means providing a education system that does just that.
______________________________________________________________________________________ Our kids live together and play together in their communities, let's have them learn together too!
In my town of 5,800 we have a secular elementary school, a Catholic elementary school and a secular high school. The secular PS is over 100 years old and two years ago got funding to repair and paint the exterior stucco. About 7 years ago, even though they were facing declining enrollment, St. Joe's elementary got funding to do away with a few portables, fully renovate and further expand their school.
Today St. Joe's student population is half non-Catholic....they're the ones that when trotted off to Mass during school hours cross their arms over their chest and receive a blessing from the priest rather than the sacrament. The teachers there report that only one child per class goes to Mass on a regular basis. They know because they take up the Homily every Monday morning with the whole class. They say about 10 of the Catholic kids go to Mass at Christmas and Easter, the rest just don't go. In grade 8, parents of St. Joe's students, Catholic and non are told that if their children are academically inclined, they should go to the bright shiny renovated and expanded Catholic SS in the city. If they are not academically inclined, they should stay in town and go to the secular SS. Parents do as they're told figuring that the local SS can't meet their child's needs. Our PS principal gets parents coming in asking whether they should send their kids to the Catholic city school or our community SS. Non-Catholic and Catholic high school students are on buses three hours a day but hey it's one way to keep your kids out of trouble. About 150 students leave our area every school day for the city. Most go to the Catholic school, some are going for French immersion others go to private schools.
Teachers at the two elementary schools compare notes, it's a small town. Their opinion is that the secular school has more kids with more pronounced learning disabilities, have less resources but do more for those kids. Our high school does more for the "non-academically inclined" students than St. Joe's every did. David Thomas, the director of education for the Upper Canada DSB says that our board has become the go-to board for kids with special needs. The less PC among us would suggest that it is a dumping ground.
Were it not for the library, our secular PS could close its second floor. We have a student population of about 246. St. Joe's has about 450 students. Our high school has about 525 students. The board is trying to sustain the highschools so has decided that grades 7 and 8 will be moved to the high schools as enrollment declines. This will put our PS under the magic number (200) and it will be slated for closure or will become a "community hub" or be absorbed into the highschool as well and become a JK to Grade 12 facility. We already have one of those in our board and a few more are already in the works.
Stop the insanity.
On the evidence presented by riffraff, the secular institutions are suffering (increasingly) from having to care for the school area's most intellectually disadvanteged.
This would lead to stigmatization of its graduates, and is in itself justification for combining the two systems. But within the combined school system, there would also be a sorting process, a "streaming".
Would you care to further discuss your school district's dilemma from this micro perspective, riffraff. What do teachers say about streaming and stigmatization - whatever the structural situation. A very human and limiting part of the problem.
Or have I focused on only a small - and not so important - piece of the overall problem as you see it?
IMHO where integration of children with disabilities is failing miserably is in the first few years of school. There is inadequate funding for timely assessment/ diagnosis and intervention/support. To get an EA in the classroom, a child must have pretty severe physical limitations or behavioural issues. Your average child with a learning disability or those children who come from very socially disadvantage families don't get an EA. Naturally, parents take a look at the disruption taking place in their children's classrooms and wonder how it's affecting their child's learning experience. Some look for a way out.
But teachers teach differently than when we were kids. My eldest son has been in split classes all along. Within our small school, there are three classes with grade 4 students where kids are streamed according to academic and social abilities. Yes, the kids in the lower streams risk stigmatization but they also get to take on leadership roles that they would never have had in a single grade classroom. Besides splitting the classes, in grade 2 they had my son spend the mornings with the grade 3 / 4 class for reading. This did not involve the hounding of an overbearing parent, we didn't find out about it til a month in. In grade 3, his science teacher saw that he handled the grade 3 science curriculum with ease so he was encouraged to go beyond that (within his own class) and mastered the grade 6 science curriculum for the same module. He's in Gr 4 (a 4/5 split) right now and is tackling grade 7 spelling. He's doing this all within a classroom where older kids with pretty involved learning disabilities are also thriving. He doesn't think twice about the fact that John needs a computer to write or Jack only reads at a grade 2 level because of inadequate ESL. (He does wonder why Jack isn't getting more help.) These kids happen to be two of his favourite playmates..... And on top of all that, in this small community, his two very best friends are Muslim and Buddhist.
A society can't legislate a change in parental attitude or prejudice toward disability, race, or religion. It can't force parents to care as deeply about their neighbours' children as their own. But Ontario can reduce duplication and inefficiencies, provide caring teachers with adequate resources, and integrate children so they can do what comes naturally.
Another way too long post. Sorry!
Another way too long post. Sorry!
As a retired guy with a B Ed. and a son-in-law actively teaching, and husband of a retired teacher, I stand in awe of your knowledge and commitment. Your analysis is bang on.
Now, it is a question of funding - which isn't going to blossom forth in this depressed economy. But I spent two years helping my ever-loving give an adequate reading program to her Grade 2s (and, yes, if they're not sailing by the end of primary, it all gets very struggly) and felt that old retired farts from outside the system could be just the assist needed in the reading program. Guided reading for sure, in ability groupings (if not the phonics instruction). Just think, phonics is "in" again.
I stand in awe of the new techniques mastered by the son-in-law, the individual-centered instruction. The no nonsense in the room expectations creating a reasonably quiet atmosphere for learning (at senior gaaaaa elementary level).
There used to be streaming, entering a vocational or academic course stream at grade 9. And it is becoming evident that the people learning trade skills and entering apprenticeships will have it made in the shade of the evolving service economy.
Public school systems must again become trusted to do the job by performance. And while the McGinty group have upped spending on education, we are still trying to overcome the rot of the common sense mobsters.
Maybe the unfolding crises will make integration necessary?


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Frosty luster. Average strike. A few scattered marks, typical for grade.
Q. David Bowers: The following narrative, with minor editing, is from my "Silver Dollars & Trade Dollars of the United States: A Complete Encyclopedia" (Wolfeboro, NH: Bowers and Merena Galleries, Inc., 1993).
Numismatic Information
Commentary: The 1934-D seems to be a Peace dollar that has been forgotten or overlooked. Despite a generous mintage, few documented hoards have come on the market, and I am not aware of any surviving mint-sealed bags. Presumably, the mintage dribbled into the channels of commerce over a long period of time. Numismatists paid little attention to them.
In 1982, Wayne Miller wrote this: "All of the available evidence suggests that the 1934-D is the only Peace dollar which was never released in bag quantities during the silver dollar rush of the early 1960s or from the Redfield Hoard." (This implies that all other Peace dollars were released in bag quantities in 1962-4, but I doubt this; for starters, I have never heard of a bag of 1921 Peace dollars.)
Circulated grades: In VF-20 to AU-58 the 1934-D Peace dollar is neither fish nor fowl; it is neither common nor scarce, but is somewhere in between.
Mint State grades: Uncirculated coins are readily available but are somewhat unappreciated in comparison to certain other issues in the series. Most coins are in lower grades from MS-60 through 63 or even 64. MS-65 pieces are surprisingly rare, considering the late date position of the issue in the series.
Occasionally, a roll of 20 pieces will turn up. Some pieces are extensively bagmarked, especially on the face and cheek of-Miss Liberty. Sometimes, coins will be marked there but have virtually flawless fields, leading to the thought that some of the face and cheek marks may have been on the original planchet before striking.
The strike of the typical 1934-D Peace dollar is usually satisfactory, and most coins have attractive satiny lustre.
Business strikes:
1. Micro D: Breen-5735. Hub combination III-B2.VAM-I. Micro D mintmark as in earlier years. Plentiful.
2. Micro D, doubled obverse die: Breen-5736.
Hub combination III-B2. Doubling plainest on IN GOD WE TRUST, particularly the D and W. Bill Fivaz considers the variety to be very rare. (Letter to the author, September 10, 1992.) (On the reverse the D mintmark was completely filled in and appeared as a blob on a specimen offered in the Bowers and Merena auction of the Robert W. Miller, Sr. Collection, November 1992.)
3. Large D: Breen-5737. Hub combination III-B2.VAM-2, called "medium D" by Van Allen and Mallis. Mintmark heavy, as on the quarter dollar. Plentiful.
4. Large D, doubled obverse die: Breen-5738; Fivaz & Stanton $1-012. Hub combination III-B2. Doubling is plainest on D WE, profile, and rays below ER. Presently believed to be scarce at best, not rare. (Per Bill Fivaz's letter to the author, September 10, 1992)
5. Micro D, mintmark high: VAM-5. New listing in 3rd edition.
6. Micro D, mintmark normal height but tilted to right. VAM-6. New listing in 3rd edition.
Business Strikes:
Enabling legislation: As earlier; plus others, including the Silver Purchase Act of June 18, 1934
Designer: Anthony de Francisci
Weight and composition: 412.5 grains; .900 silver, . 100 copper
Melt-down (silver value) in year minted: $0.37344
Dies prepared: Obverse: Unknown; Reverse: Unknown.
Characteristics of striking: Usually well struck and with lustrous, satiny surfaces.
Known hoards of Mint State coins: No original mint-sealed bags are known. Rolls occasionally come on the market.
In all Mint State grades combined this is the second rarest Denver Mint Peace dollar (1927-D is rarest). In MS-65, this is the rarest Denver Mint issue.
Heritage 4/2006:1232, $46,000 - Joseph C. Thomas Collection. - Heritage 4/2009:2654, $86,250

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"People clearly treated him differently, and at times, it was very frustrating for Alex because he knew he was the same person he was before his diagnosis.


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Another hero rememberedPosted Tuesday, June 22, 2010, at 7:31 AM
I feel like I had some of the best school teachers there have ever been. The column this week is about one who, in my opinion, was the best school teacher I ever had or have known in raising my children and grandchildren.
I had this person not only for a teacher, but also for a boss, not once, but twice. Let me say in using the word boss, he was someone who did not tarnish the meaning of the word "boss".
I have always believed if all school systems were made up of this person, there would not be any Columbines or any other problems in schools, for the teachers or the students. This teacher never made a difference in the students regardless if you were, boy or girl, rich or poor. Each one was his favorite, and I heard him say that many times.
I first had him as a teacher when I was in the seventh grade at Central Elementary. That was way back when Central Elementary was where Central Gardens is now. What a turn of events.
That building started out for young people and now houses older people.
I don't believe this teacher even knew how to get mad. I watched him spank a couple boys in my class, and he could hardly do it for laughing. Not that he was having fun spanking them, almost like he was surprised at himself for doing it. This spanking was about what a grandparent would give a grandchild. You grandparents know what I'm talking about.
I remember one day one of my dear friends, Arlene Triplett, who is now Arlene Hessling, had walked to Weber's Ben Franklin and bought a bag of peanuts. This teacher jokingly bribed us for our peanuts!
We gave them to him and he ate them! That was my favorite school year. I always looked forward to his class for he made you want to learn and do your best.
His eyes always twinkled and he had the kindest smile I think I have ever seen. He kept that twinkle and smile until he went to be with Jesus. I just know he is smiling all over Heaven and making people feel special.
Later when I was a senior and took a class called COE, that was where you went to school half a day and worked the other half. I worked as secretary at Central and he was the principal. Working with him was as nice as being in his class. Again, I watched him loving those children and being so kind to them, to me and all others.
He became my boss again after I was out of school and married with a child. This time he was superintendant at the old high school, which by that time had become the junior high.
Again, I watch him in motion as the kindest person in charge of young people I have ever known. He was always such an inspiration to me. I worked with him and the school on several occasions with some of the less fortunate children in junior high. I won't go into detail, but I was involved in helping some of these children. He was always encouraging me to keep up, in his words, the good work. He, like many others back then called me Kathy. Many times he would say to me, "Kathy, these children are always going to remember what you have done for them. You just keep doing what you are doing." I can still hear him say those words and see the encouraging look on his face as he was saying them.
I have to tell this one story. A young boy in the seventh grade had been accused of stealing a bike.
The principal took this boy to the office and was going to spank him, but the boy would not take it. He kept saying he was not going to take a spanking for something he did not do. The principal was very upset and sent me to get the superintendent. When he came in he took the boy to his office. Again, I can still see him and hear him as he said, "Son, I don't believe you took that bike, but go ahead and take this spanking this time. I will see you never have to take another." The boy took it. This young boy learned that day to love and respect this teacher-principal-superintendent, and my boss, as much as I did. It was proven that this child did not steal that bike.
I wish I could tell more stories about this wonderful person, but again, space won't permit. But I will say that we could all learn wonderful lessons from the life of my teacher, my boss, my beloved friend and one of my life's heros - Carl Davis.
Don't forget to e-mail me at email@example.com and remember, you could be my next hero or heroine.
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I have received so many e-mails and phone calls about this column honoring Carl Davis. Apparently I am not the only one that feels this way about him. If you have a comment please post it.
I know there are many wonderful teachers out there. I may not know them, but my hats are off to them. I believe they have one of the most important jobs out there. After all, they help shape the lives of our young people.
Thanks to all the readers. I appreciate you.
Remember, you could be my next hero or heroine.
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1. Recognize your strengths and weaknesses
"I used to create my own plans based on what others were doing, what I saw in magazine articles, an inflated sense of self and a need to overachieve. My plans were always beyond my abilities and always resulted in injury," laments six-day TransRockies Run finisher Carey Martin. This is a time to be both self-critical and honest with yourself. Review your running history to determine your strengths and weaknesses.
How do you recover from long runs and speed work? Are you often sidelined by lingering or recurring injuries, like Las Vegas-based trail half marathoner Kimberly Kanitz used to be? Says Kanitz, "I was repeatedly on the road to an injury by do ing a lot of the same training week after week, unable to complete a training cycle."
Do you sign up for events in advance only to find yourself unmotivated to train as the event draws near? Adam Towle, who recently finished his first trail ultra, experienced just this. He admits, "Before using a structured plan I had goals but there weren't any teeth to them; there wasn't an investment. My path to various goals was hit or miss. I had a string of 'did not starts.'"
An optimal schedule will maximize your strengths and intelligently address your weaknesses so that you can improve.
2. Identify your race distance and venue
Do you gravitate to ultra-distance or multi-day events or do you prefer trail races that are over in a few hours? Are you satisfied with your placing at these races? Brazen Racing race director and frequent San Francisco Bay area trail racer Sam Fiandaca says, "I've recently found strengths with distances I didn't know I'd be strong in. In my case, this is mid-distance trail running. I'm not winning these races, but I tend to place higher in them and that's something I can continue to work on."
You'll need to prepare for the physical and mental demands of the event you've chosen. Excelling at shorter races means incorporating speed training and some knowledge of clever race tactics. Longer events emphasize stamina and endurance training and the ability to execute proper race-day nutrition and hydration routines. Specificity is important. Become familiar with and train on terrain similar to the race course.
3. Identify your goals
We all have our ultimate goal, but be prepared for the bumps in the trail that could keep you from reaching it.
"This year I've been unable to run," says Seattle's Cougar Mountain Trail Run Series contestant Mark Burke. "The mental frustration of not being able to achieve my original race goal has put me in a state of limbo."
Having a tiered goal system in place will foster your commitment to training and ensure you give your best on race day. Select not one but several immediate and far-reaching goals even if they aren't specifically related to the race.
Burke continues, "However, in an effort to identify some new mini-goals until then, I am going to focus on losing weight and doing as much non-weight-bearing exercise as possible. It is easy to give up on my goals when I cannot run, but these tricks will keep me engaged."
Strive for your primary goal, but use the others along the way as yardsticks of success and something to fall back on if you encounter a setback. Also, don't be afraid to decide that you may need not one but two or three years to achieve your ultimate goal. Two-time JFK 50-Mile finisher Emily Malloy explains, "I have underlying goals of becoming a better runner from a year-to-year perspective. And by 'better' I don't necessarily mean faster; I mean learning more about the sport, about running different distances and in different conditions. When you train through a few cycles, you know you are generally becoming a better runner, and that is what I strive for."


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The Campbell County Commission accepted a resignation and agreed to purchase a slightly used road grader in action at their meeting on Feb. 5.
Ashley Klaudt submitted her resignation to the commission effective Feb. 16. She had served as a part time assistant in the highway department and 4-H/extension office. She worked 20 hours per week and divided her time between the two departments as necessary.
The commissioners accepted her resignation and thanked her for her service to the county.
The commissioners discussed advertising for the position, but agreed to wait until they have a better idea about what is happening in the 4-H program. Jeff Mueller, who had served as 4-H Advisor for the four counties of Campbell, Walworth, McPherson and Edmunds, had submitted his resignation from that position in December 2012. Currently, SD State University is advertising for the 4-H position.
The commission has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the other three counties for the 4-H Advisor, and would stay in the program at least for this year. They asked to get a count of how many kids from the county participate in 4-H programs.
Following a discussion on the pros and cons of purchasing another road grader, the commissioners moved to purchase a 2013 slightly used Caterpillar 140M2 road grader off the Spink County bid. The base price is $258,240 and will be purchased under a six payment, five year financing program at 2.65 percent interest. There will be an initial upfront payment and annual payments each year thereafter. The machine can be paid off early with no penalty.
The machines were new on Oct. 1, when they began to be used by the City of Sioux Falls for snow removal. The number of hours on the machine depends upon snow removal needs in Sioux Falls. The county will take ownership on about May 1.
The county will need to purchase a new wing, but the snow plow on the 2006 Volvo grader that will be replaced should work on the machine.
The commissioners also moved to declare the Volvo grader and a 2004 Ford New Holland TM130 tractor as surplus property and advertise for bids. Because the county has been leasing tractors for the past few years, the Ford tractor has not been used very much. Bids will be opened at their meeting on April 2.
In other business, the commission:
• Met with Tom Mitzel of the Campbell County Insurance Agency to review the county's property and liability insurance policy. The new policy premium as quoted is $24,769, an increase of about $1,900 (about 8.4 percent) from last year. Following the review of coverages, the commission moved to approve the renewal of the policy.
• Discussed options for disbanding the County Predator Control District. The issue had been raised by the District at a prior meeting. States Attorney Mark Kroontje advised that the district should be shut down at the end of a budget year, and that any monies left in the fund should be used up by the Predator Control Board, which oversees the district, for predator control activities.
• Approved erecting 35 mph speed limit signs on either side of the Brandon Rau home in the southeastern part of the county.
• Learned that a meeting was planned for Feb. 7 to review a Mitigation Plan for Campbell County.
• Heard that there will be a Warhawk Emergency Management exercise in Campbell County at a later date in February.
• Asked Emergency Manager Lawrence Goehring to check with the SD Public Utilities Commission and/or other entities as to whether there was another cell phone tower planned for the area and if it could be positioned so that there would be coverage on the Oahe Reservoir along the west boundary of the county.
• Heard that a second speed board had been installed on the south edge of Herreid on US Hwy 83. The first one had been put up on the north side of the city, and the commissioners agreed that it helped control speeds in the city limits. Both speed boards were obtained through grants obtained by the CC Sheriff's Department. Deputy Chuck Davidson said he would check with the Mound City Town Board to see if there was interest in attempting to get speed boards installed on Hwy 83 in Mound City also.
• Received a written report of monthly Sheriff's Department activity. In response to a question, Sheriff Lacey Perman said that requests for concealed weapon permits are higher than last year at the same time.
• Moved to purchase a new 2013 Chevrolet Tahoe, with requested options, from Lamb Motors of Onida per the state bid specifications. The new vehicle with options will cost $29,586. The purchase of a vehicle had been included in the 2013 budget approved last year. The vehicle currently used by Sheriff Perman has about 187,000 miles on it.
• Met with Highway Foreman Terry Bauer to discuss results of some testing on engine oil in the highway department semis and large trucks that the department has been conducting. The commissioners suggested that the oil be changed more often and/or using a different brand of oil.
• Moved to purchase culverts off the Beadle County bids. Prices will be about the same as they were last year.
• Heard that all the county highway department employees will be attending two different training sessions, one on Feb. 14 and the other on Feb. 26.
• Learned that an individual who had extended driveways and done other work in the county ROW without getting permission from the highway superintendent or the commission had finally met with Supt. Patti Pudwill and agreed to dig up the driveways and put in longer culverts. The original work was done in the spring of 2012, and extending the driveway without the longer culverts would result in the culverts becoming blocked and water running over the county road during a major rain or spring thaw event. The commission and States Attorney Kroontje had been working with the landowner in the southeastern part of the county since late last spring to try and get the problem corrected.
• Approved an agreement with the State DOT for striping about four miles of paved roads in areas around the communities in the county. There is a 60/40 cost share, with the county paying 40 percent of the cost.
• Moved to apply for a Community Access Grant to complete repairs on the approximately one half mile county paved road leading east out of Pollock (elevator road).


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Daly, Mary
Mary Daly 1928-
American critic, nonfiction writer, and autobiographer.
The following entry presents an overview of Daly's career through 2001.
Among the most radical feminist scholars of the late twentieth century, Daly is known for basing her critical arguments on the academic traditions of theology and philosophy, rather than those of politics or economics. In works such as The Church and the Second Sex (1968) and Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation (1973), Daly not only criticized the Catholic Church for demonizing women and relegating them to secondary roles but also denounced organized religion itself as the cornerstone of all oppressive patriarchal social institutions. In later works, such as Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism (1978) and Pure Lust: Elemental Feminist Philosophy (1984), she shifted her focus to dissections of male-biased linguistic structures that perpetuate patriarchy, thus laying the foundation for a new feminist-oriented usage with the hope of fostering a women's revolution.
Biographical Information
Daly was born on October 16, 1928, in Schenectady, New York, the only child of Frank and Anna Catherine Daly. Her parents were working-class Catholics, and Daly grew up as a devout member of the church. She enrolled at the College of St. Rose, where she earned a B.A. in English in 1950. Daly had been interested in philosophy and theology, but no degrees in either of those disciplines were offered at St. Rose at the time. Two years later, she earned her M.A. in English at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Daly then entered the School of Sacred Theology at St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana, where she earned her Ph.D. in religion in 1954. Daly wanted to pursue a doctorate in Catholic theology, but such a degree was not then available to women anywhere in the United States. Daly learned that she could pursue the degree at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, since the school was state-run and could not legally bar women from any course of study. For the next eleven years, Daly studied at Fribourg, earning a basic degree in sacred theology in 1960, a licentiate in sacred theology in 1961, a doctorate in sacred theology in 1963, and a doctorate in philosophy in 1965. In 1966 Daly took a job as an assistant professor of theology at Boston College. That same year, she published her first book, Natural Knowledge of God in the Philosophy of Jacques Maritain (1966), an academic analysis of the French philosopher. However, it was the publication of The Church and the Second Sex that first brought Daly widespread critical and popular attention. The book's strong criticism of the Catholic Church's attitudes toward women proved controversial, and Daly made several television appearances to further defend and expound her views. Her outspokenness angered some of the administrators at the Jesuit-run Boston College and, as a result, the following year she was denied both tenure and a promotion to associate professor. This action outraged many Boston College students and their demonstrations on Daly's behalf forced the administration to alter its position and eventually award tenure to Daly. Nevertheless, her future at Boston College remained unclear as the administration denied her promotion to full professorship in 1975 and 1989. In 1999 a male student at Boston College, with the backing of a conservative public-interest law firm, threatened to sue the college unless men were allowed to attend Daly's women's studies classes, which Daly had traditionally limited to women only. Before Boston College could officially respond, Daly requested that her next semester's classes be canceled and took a leave of absence. The college suspended Daly in 2000, prompting Daly to sue for violation of her tenure rights and breach of contract. The lawsuit was settled out of court in 2001.
Major Works
An exhaustively researched and comprehensive history of the Catholic Church's alleged suppression of women, The Church and the Second Sex is a searing indictment of the Church as a fundamentally sexist and patriarchal institution. The book offers little in the way of suggested ecclesiastical reforms; instead, Daly argues that the Church's bias against women is an inherent result of its history and structure. However, in Beyond God the Father, Daly began to outline a feminist spiritual program that she believes could take the place of the current patriarchal religions, creating a foundation for a feminist theology. Beyond God the Father asserts that Christianity is based on a conception of God as a static, authoritarian, and—most importantly—male figure. Daly argues that this father figure has become the backbone of a system of symbols that men use to subjugate women. Furthermore, Daly claims that this religious subjugation legitimates all other forms of social, racial, economic, and political oppression. Beyond God the Father calls for a feminist spiritual revolution—one that will replace the traditional concept of a male God with the existentialist-influenced conception of the divine as something readily available through the fullness of one's own being. Daly moved her focus outside the religious sphere with Gyn/Ecology, turning her critical attention to the issue of societal gender roles. The work's thesis states that women, after millennia of male domination, have unconsciously accepted a patriarchal ideal of femininity—an ideal that must be stripped away if women are to realize their full potential. In Gyn/Ecology's central section, Daly delineates the results of this false ideal with a list of socially sanctioned abuses of women, including Chinese foot-binding, witch-burning, the Hindu suttee, and female circumcision. Daly points out that each of these imposed forms of mutilation is based on a male-created ideal of womanhood. In the book's final section, Daly demonstrates how women can use language to create a new definition of womanhood, giving once pejorative terms like "hag" and "crone" positive connotations while exposing the hidden patriarchal meanings of seemingly innocent or neutral terms. Daly further pursued this lexicographical project in Pure Lust, guiding the reader through three "realms." In the first realm, the ancient culture of the "Goddess" is examined; in the second, existing phallocentric conceptions are dismissed; and in the third, women are left free to create their own society. In each section, Daly discusses the patriarchal linguistic obstacles that she feels block women from fully realizing themselves as individuals. Daly's next work, Websters' First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language (1987), is an expanded version of the linguistically oriented sections of her previous two works. Written with Jane Caputi and presented in dictionary form, the book reconstructs and redefines women's language through etymological investigation, alliterative wordplay, linguistic invention, and mythological association. In the autobiographical work Outercourse: The Be-Dazzling Voyage: Containing Recollections from My Logbook of a Radical Feminist Philosopher (1992), Daly recounts her youth, her education, her struggles with the Boston College faculty, and other personal matters, most notably the development of her critical ideals and the circumstances surrounding the writing of her previous works. Structured as a quasi-magical dialogue between Daly and a young radical feminist living in the year 2048, Quintessence … Realizing the Archaic Future: A Radical Elemental Feminist Manifesto (1998) offers a survey of social problems facing women in the 1990s, including the break-up of the second wave of the women's movement, the growing development of genetic engineering, society's over-reliance on technology, and the grip of postmodern theory on academia. Quintessence then presents a fictional history of the world from the 1990s to the year 2048, proposing that the women's movement will evolve into strong communities of like-minded women who, through intense devotion to each other and the ideals of radical feminism, will eventually cause the world's patriarchal institutions to crumble. In 2001 Daly published The Gender Division of Welfare: The Impact of the British and German Welfare States, a critical analysis of the modern institution of welfare, citing specific case studies and examples from the United Kingdom and Germany.
Critical Reception
Daly has acted as an important force in modern radical feminism, inspiring considerable critical debate, most of which has fallen along cultural and political lines. Certain aspects of her work, notably charges of essentialism and her historical ambivalence, have been hotly contested in feminist circles. One of Daly's most controversial positions has been her assertion that men are inherently inferior to women and should generally be excluded from the society of women. Many feminists have openly rejected this ideal, with some calling Daly blatantly sexist while others argue that it is within the power of individual men to reject patriarchal systems. Daly has also been criticized for her belief that the oppression of women by men is now, and has been throughout human history, the primary form of oppression, and that all other instances of oppression pale in comparison. This belief—and its corollary, that radical feminism is the single most important form of liberation ideology—has angered a number of activists and scholars who have charged Daly with both self-aggrandizement and shortsightedness. However, some of Daly's supporters have defended her by claiming that Daly is speaking metaphorically when comparing the oppression of women to other instances of oppression. They have also argued that Daly does not intend to denigrate other forms of oppression or liberation ideologies, and is simply speaking from within an admittedly outdated framework of 1960s-era radical politics. Many critics have agreed that Daly's analysis of language as a tool of oppression and liberation constitutes her greatest achievement, particularly in works such as Pure Lust. Nevertheless, some scholars have asserted that, by focusing entirely on the English language, Daly has framed feminism as an Anglocentric phenomenon. Others have criticized Daly's focus on redefining words as too limiting, arguing that she should focus instead on larger linguistic units of discourse. Daly's supporters have countered that Daly always defines words in the context of larger ideas, and that her focus on words—the basic units of meaning—rather than posing a limitation, allows her great analytical flexibility, since words are used in many different contexts.
Principal Works
Natural Knowledge of God in the Philosophy of Jacques Maritain (nonfiction) 1966
The Church and the Second Sex (criticism) 1968; revised edition, 1985
Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation (criticism) 1973; revised edition, 1985
Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism (criticism) 1978; revised edition, 1990
Pure Lust: Elemental Feminist Philosophy (criticism) 1984; revised edition, 1992
Websters' First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language [with Jane Caputi] (criticism) 1987
Outercourse: The Be-Dazzling Voyage:...
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Rosemary Radford Ruether (review date 10 November 1973)
SOURCE: Ruether, Rosemary Radford. "Theology by Sex." New Republic 169, no. 19 (10 November 1973): 24-6.
[In the following review of Beyond God the Father, Ruether finds flaws in Daly's conception of women and her notion of castrating "phallic morality."]
Mary Daly's new book [Beyond God the Father] is a bold effort to found a theology for the women's movement. Many will find this book startling and even repugnant. Mary Daly has little respect for orthodoxies, either Protestant or Catholic. She strives to break not only with orthodox theology, but also with the traditional logic and meaning of language, in order to reveal a new meaning over...
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Mary Jean Irion (review date 16 January 1974)
SOURCE: Irion, Mary Jean. "Wrenching Free of the Patriarchal Past." Christian Century 91 (16 January 1974): 46-7.
[In the following review, Irion offers a positive assessment of Beyond God the Father, though notes shortcomings in Daly's lack of historical perspective.]
The most searing and searching book yet to relate the movement for women's liberation to religion in America was published in autumn by Beacon. The author, Mary Daly, has been a leader in the movement for some time. Hers is truly a radical book, one with staying power that should outlast that of death-of-God-type radicalisms. Since her argument moves beyond church and Christianity, she will...
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Doris Donnelly (review date 19 January 1974)
SOURCE: Donnelly, Doris. Review of Beyond God the Father, by Mary Daly. America 130 (19 January 1974): 39-41.
[In the following review, Donnelly evaluates the strengths and weaknesses in Beyond God the Father.]
Mary Daly usually does not tease. Coy she is not. Nor playful. Nor shy.
In fact, if ever there were a showdown at the O.K. Corral with those insecure, clerical, hierarchic types, nothing less than The Church and the Second Sex—her vastly knowledgeable and impeccably researched book detailing the history of ecclesial suppression of the feminine—would have qualified her as the one and only straight-from-the-hip champion of...
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Margaret O'Brien Steinfels (review date 1 February 1974)
SOURCE: Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien. "Earthly Utopia or Armageddon?" Commonweal 99, no. 17 (1 February 1974): 442-43.
[In the following review, Steinfels criticizes Beyond God the Father, noting Daly's "effort to decimate patriarchal religion, language, and ideas."]
Earthly utopias, in books or in Vermont, are works of the imagination that allow us to fantasize alternative ways of living our lives and organizing the world. You are interested in a society of abundance, restraint, and civility, based on a credit card economy? See Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward. You are "into" common property, communal life, and connubial freedom? Check out...
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Marie Augusta Neal (review date July 1976)
SOURCE: Neal, Marie Augusta. Review of Beyond God the Father, by Mary Daly. Contemporary Sociology 5, no. 4 (July 1976): 441-42.
[In the following review, Neal compliments Daly's central argument in Beyond God the Father.]
Attempting a radical critique of patriarchy, Mary Daly addresses the symbol system of liberation theologies and challenges male theologians to re-examine their language to see if they can say anything religious about transcendent being without relying on the unexamined assumptions of the holiness of patriarchy.
The book [Beyond God the Father], which was severely criticized by theologians and which cost the author her...
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Virginia R. Mollenkott (review date 11 April 1979)
SOURCE: Mollenkott, Virginia R. "Against Patriarchy." Christian Century 96 (11 April 1979): 417-18.
[In the following review of Gyn/Ecology, Mollenkott commends Daly's critique of patriarchal oppression, but objects to her judgmental and intolerant perspective.]
Mary Daly, associate professor of theology at Boston College and leading philosopher-theologian of the radical feminist movement, proposed in her second book that feminists speak of God-as-a-Verb (Beyond God the Father, 1973). In Gyn/Ecology, she repudiates the term "God" altogether, as representing "the necrophilia of patriarchy," and speaks only of the Goddess who "affirms...
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Marilyn Frye (review date August 1984)
SOURCE: Frye, Marilyn. "Famous Lust Words." Women's Review of Books 1, no. 11 (August 1984): 3-4.
[In the following review of Pure Lust, Frye commends Daly's "exemplary iconoclasm," though expresses reservations concerning her treatment of race and her optimistic notion of natural harmony.]
With Pure Lust, Mary Daly takes on once again that central and challenging project of a movement by women to liberate women: the work of creating new meaning. The project is challenging partly because it is "impossible"—as Alice told the rebel egg Humpty Dumpty, you can't just make words mean what you want them to mean. It is necessary because patriarchal...
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Julia Penelope (review date December 1987)
SOURCE: Penelope, Julia. "Erratic, Ecstatic, Eccentric." Women's Review of Books 5, no. 3 (December 1987): 5-6.
[In the following review, Penelope offers a positive evaluation of Websters' First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language.]
Have you ever stopped in the middle of an intense conversation to search for the "right" word? Have you ever found yourself in an emotionally charged situation in which your mind went blank, and hours, even days, later suddenly realized what you could have said? When it happens to me, I say that I'm "at a loss for words," and spend sleepless nights scratching at "I should have said's."
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Jane Hedley (essay date spring 1992)
SOURCE: Hedley, Jane. "Surviving to Speak New Language: Mary Daly and Adrienne Rich." Hypatia 7, no. 2 (spring 1992): 40-62.
[In the following excerpt, Hedley discusses Daly's attempt to depose male-defined language through etymological reconstructions and the invention of a new vocabulary for women, culminating in Websters' First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language.]
As radical feminists seeking to overcome the linguistic oppression of women, Rich and Daly apparently shared the same agenda in the late 1970s; but they approached the problem differently, and their paths have increasingly diverged. Whereas Daly's approach to the repossession of...
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Carol Anne Douglas (review date January 1993)
SOURCE: Douglas, Carol Anne. Review of Outercourse: The Be-Dazzling Voyage: Containing Recollections from My Logbook of a Radical Feminist Philosopher, by Mary Daly. Off Our Backs 23, no. 1 (January 1993): 19.
[In the following review, Douglas lauds Daly's frank and insightful portrayal of her life as a feminist scholar in Outercourse.]
Looking back to Outercourse: The Bedazzling Voyage, logbook of radical feminist philosopher Mary Daly, is a good reminder of the obstacles faced by feminists in the late twentieth century. Daly is, of course, the feminist who reclaimed words such as spinster, hag, nag, and crone. Readers must remember that in the 20th...
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Carol J. Adams (review date March 1993)
SOURCE: Adams, Carol J. "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary." Women's Review of Books 10, no. 6 (March 1993): 1, 3.
[In the following review, Adams praises Daly's contribution to feminist theory and offers a favorable evaluation of Outercourse.]
For anyone who has ever wanted to know more about the radical feminist philosopher behind Beyond God the Father, the Revolting Hag of Gyn/Ecology, the Nag-Gnostic philosopher of Pure Lust and the Conjurer of the Wickedary, here in one installment are the how, the why and the what of Mary Daly and her books. Through the medium of one woman's life—her own—Mary Daly invites us into the process of...
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Cindy L. Griffin (essay date June 1993)
SOURCE: Griffin, Cindy L. "Women as Communicators: Mary Daly's Hagography as Rhetoric." Communications Monographs 60, no. 2 (June 1993): 158-77.
[In the following essay, Griffin analyzes Daly's feminist philosophy of language and its application as an alternative mode of communication theory and rhetorical practice among women. According to Griffin, Daly elucidates the dichotomy between women's public and private discourse, embodied in a "foreground" of patriarchal oppression and a "background" of feminist authenticity and subversion.]
In 1987, Spitzack and Carter suggested that, although women's visibility has increased in the communication discipline, the...
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Krista Ratcliffe (essay date 1996)
SOURCE: Ratcliffe, Krista. "De/Mystifying Herself and Her Wor(l)ds: Mary Daly." In Anglo-American Feminist Challenges to the Rhetorical Traditions: Virginia Woolf, Mary Daly, Adrienne Rich, pp. 65-106. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996.
[In the following essay, Ratcliffe provides an overview of Daly's radical feminist critique of patriarchal language and discusses the rhetorical strategies of intervention by which she exposes male oppression embedded in language and attempts to reclaim and liberate women's discourse from male domination.]
[T]his book is primarily concerned with the mind/spirit/body pollution inflicted through...
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Carol Anne Douglas (review date December 1998)
SOURCE: Douglas, Carol Anne. Review of Quintessence … Realizing the Archaic Future: A Radical Elemental Feminist Manifesto, by Mary Daly. Off Our Backs 28, no. 11 (December 1998): 14.
[In the following review, Douglas praises Daly's optimistic world view, but finds Quintessence inferior to her previous works.]
Readers in 2048 will like Mary Daly's new book, Quintessence. That's Daly's prediction, and the book is filled with comments from a radical feminist from that year who likes the book and conjures Daly back to discuss it.
Daly's faith in the future bespeaks her isolation, and the isolation of many radical feminists, in the...
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Pamela Schaeffer (essay date 5 March 1999)
SOURCE: Schaeffer, Pamela. "Law Firm Forces Mary Daly's Hand." National Catholic Reporter (5 March 1999): 3.
[In the following essay, Schaeffer recounts Daly's controversial academic career at Boston College and discusses the possibility of her early retirement in the face of a legal challenge brought by a male student denied admission to Daly's female-only class.]
Feminist author Mary Daly's stormy 33-year career in the theology department at Boston College may be coming to an end. Her nemesis is a single male student who has demanded entrance to one of her women-only classes, challenging her 20-year policy of teaching men separately.
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Geraldine Moane (review date September-October 1999)
SOURCE: Moane, Geraldine. "Mary Daly's Radical Elemental Feminist Journey." Women's Studies International Forum 22, no. 5 (September-October 1999): 573-75.
[In the following review, Moane praises Daly's accomplishment with Quintessence, arguing that the work "pushes her ontological analysis to new depths."]
Quintessence is Mary Daly's seventh radical feminist book, published on the 30th anniversary of her first book, The Church and the Second Sex (Daly, 1968). Quintessence is also being published on the 25th anniversary of Beyond God the Father (Daly, 1973), and the 20th anniversary of Gyn/Ecology (Daly, 1978). It can...
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Marsaura Shukla (review date winter 1999-2000)
SOURCE: Shukla, Marsaura. "Time Is on My Side." Cross Currents 49, no. 4 (winter 1999-2000): 550-57.
[In the following excerpt, Shukla presents a favorable review of Quintessence, which the critic contrasts with Rosemary Radford Ruether's Women and Redemption.]
The liquor store around the corner from my apartment has in its window a digital sign counting down in rapidly moving milli-seconds to the year 2000.1 A friend of mine is developing a class on time and millennialism in the New Testament. The terrors of Y2K appear as a motif in television commercials for cars, insurance, soda-pop. As the twentieth century and the second millennium of the...
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Mary Daly and Catherine Madsen (interview date fall 2000)
SOURCE: Daly, Mary, and Catherine Madsen. "The Thin Thread of Conversation: An Interview with Mary Daly." Cross Currents 50, no. 3 (fall 2000): 332-48.
[In the following interview, Daly discusses the abuses of patriarchal language, her conception of and contribution to radical feminism, the dangers of biotechnology, and her utopian vision of a patriarchy-free future world.]
Perhaps a certain amount of disclosure is needed. I am, if not quite an ex-radical feminist, no longer a loyalist to radical feminism. My circumstances and my opinions would still look radical enough to anyone but another radical feminist, but I am no longer willing to worry what another radical...
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Anne-Marie Korte (essay date 2000)
SOURCE: Korte, Anne-Marie. "Deliver Us from Evil: Bad versus Better Faith in Mary Daly's Feminist Writings," translated by Mischa F. C. Hoyinck. In Feminist Interpretations of Mary Daly, edited by Sarah Lucia Hoagland and Marilyn Frye, pp. 76-111. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000.
[In the following essay, Korte traces the development and contradictions of Daly's feminist theology and post-Christian critique of patriarchy, particularly as shaped by her reading of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex and subsequent efforts to reconcile religious experience with the process of women's self-realization and transcendence.]
Mary Daly's...
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Frances Gray (essay date 2000)
SOURCE: Gray, Frances. "Elemental Philosophy: Language and Ontology in Mary Daly's Texts." In Feminist Interpretations of Mary Daly, edited by Sarah Lucia Hoagland and Marilyn Frye, pp. 222-45. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000.
[In the following essay, Gray examines Daly's subversion of male-defined language and philosophy through the calculated use of metaphor, naming, and linguistic inventions, particularly as such strategies reveal Daly's view of language as fundamentally linked to the process of becoming.]
You are the icon of woman sexual in herself like a great forest tree in flower, liriodendron bearing sweet tulips, cups of joy and...
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Anne-Marie Korte (essay date 2000)
SOURCE: Korte, Anne-Marie. "Just/ice In Time: On Temporality in Mary Daly's Quintessence," translated by Mischa F. C. Hoyinck. In Feminist Interpretations of Mary Daly, edited by Sarah Lucia Hoagland and Marilyn Frye, pp. 418-28. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000.
[In the following essay, Korte discusses Daly's conception of time and her use of temporal disjunctions in Quintessence to escape patriarchal notions of absolute space/time.]
At the brink of a new millennium, could there be a more fitting subject for Mary Daly, renowned for her "Be-Dazzling" leaps through time and space, to thematize than time? In her latest...
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Stephen P. Jenkins (review date June 2001)
SOURCE: Jenkins, Stephen P. Review of The Gender Division of Welfare: The Impact of the British and German Welfare States, by Mary Daly. British Journal of Sociology 52, no. 2 (June 2001): 354-5.
[In the following review, Jenkins praises Daly's "succinct and seductive" examination of modern welfare states in The Gender Division of Welfare, but laments the work's lack of post-1990 references.]
[The Gender Division of Welfare: The Impact of the British and German Welfare States] makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the nature of contemporary welfare states, their relationships with families, markets, and outcomes for individuals. Distinctive features include reviews of earlier approaches, a new conceptual framework based on gender differentiation combined with a cross-national perspective, and the combination of theorizing and empirical work. The writing style is succinct and seductive.
Part I conceptualizes the relationships between gender and the welfare state. There is an useful critical survey of earlier frameworks, and persuasive argument in favour of a gendered approach and a cross-national perspective. Daly's own conceptual approach is a coherent development and integration of elements of earlier research rather than a radical departure. I concur with her desire to move away from typologies of welfare states towards better integration of micro-level outcomes, and her preference for two-country rather than many-country comparisons. Part II provides a comprehensive picture of the key characteristics of the British and German welfare states viewed through the lens of the conceptual framework. This focus is on policies for families and caring, risks covered, eligibility criteria, treatments of those entitled, and cash transfer systems. Part III examines the role of the welfare states (and the family) in the context of income redistribution, poverty, financial relationships within marriage and marital breakdown. It would be unfair to summarize the empirical findings in a few sentences (though there are no great surprises!). Indeed, pointing out "messy and stubborn practices encountered in social reality" is a part of the book's message—one with which I sympathize. The book concludes with thoughtful reflections on the utility of a gender approach to comparative welfare state analysis.
The enduring legacy of this book may be the analytical framework rather than the specific application. The main focus is on the mid-1980s, i.e. before Thatcherite and subsequent "reforms" to the British economy and welfare states, and before German reunification in 1989. (The discussion of later periods in the concluding chapter appears somewhat of an afterthought in comparison.) The introduction acknowledges this, stating none the less that "the mid-1980s suggests itself as an appropriate period from which to take stock of … postwar welfare state models." This may be so—but investigation of the impact of more recent changes (or whether things have in fact really changed) is likely to be of greater contemporary interest. Moreover there are few references later than the mid-1990s. Some unpublished research that is cited has long since appeared, and some notable recent research is not cited. One specific date issue: Daly's German sample—and hence empirical inferences—refer only to native Germans, i.e. "guestworkers" are not considered despite their importance in German society (they are over-sampled in her data source, so data availability is not an issue). It is important to note that the potential for quantitative cross-national research has markedly improved over the last decade, with substantial extensions to the collections of comparable data comprising the Luxembourg Income Study and the Cross-National Equivalent Panel Data File (http://www.human.cornell.edu/pam/gsoep/equivfil.cfm). The latter also reminds me of an unwarranted side-swipe. Daly refers to "the latest fashion in poverty research, which searches after duration and movement … However none of the recent work on the dynamics of poverty gives cause to assume that the structures of poverty uncovered here would be any different to those found by dynamic analyses." One of the lessons of the last decade is indeed that, if one asks different questions, then one does get different (and complementary) answers to the standard cross-section-based approaches.
Overall, and despite some specific reservations, I thoroughly recommend this book as a worthwhile purchase for researchers, teachers, and students.
Further Reading
Bahmueller, Nancy N., and Diane E. Bennekamper. "Be-ing in Womanspace." Contemporary Psychology 21, no. 7 (July 1976): 504.
Bahmueller and Bennekamper offer a positive assessment of Beyond God the Father.
Evans, Patricia M. Review of The Gender Division of Welfare: The Impact of the British and German Welfare States, by Mary Daly. Canadian Journal of Sociology 27, no. 2 (spring 2002): 269-72.
Evans lauds Daly's accomplishment in The Gender Division of Welfare, arguing that the work is "a welcome addition to the expanding scholarship on gender and welfare states."
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