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 be seen partly as a statement of Daly's most important ideas; this is implied in the subtitle of Quintessence, which names it as a ‘Manifesto’. In a play on this abundance of anniversaries, Quintessence contains ‘Cosmic Comments and Conversations’ from the year 2048, the 50th anniversary of the first publication of Quintessence. These comments are written from the ‘Lost and Found Continent’ after...