A chorus of discordant voices: Radical feminist confrontations with patriarchal religion

Abstract

This genre analysis of feminist responses to patriarchal religion examines selected works by Mary Daly, Ti‐Grace Atkinson, and Sally Gearhart. Specifically, we identify radical feminist anti‐religious rhetoric as deriving from what Harrell and Linkugel (1980) call organizing principles found in recurring situations that generate discourse characterized by a family of common factors (p. 406). We selected works that can be explored under the “motivational classification.”