Former BC professor and prominent feminist Mary Daly has died at the age of 81. While Professor Daly taught at BC from 1966-1991, she retired after she was no longer permitted to bar men from her advanced classes on feminism. According to New York Times reporter Margalit Fox, Professor Daly sought to only permit women in these classes because “maintaining that the presence of men there would inhibit frank discussion.”
Although raised Catholic and trained as a Roman Catholic theologian, Daly was particularly critical of the Catholic Church. Fox also adds that she wrote books arguing that the Catholic Church “had systematically oppressed women for centuries.”
The New York Times broke the story of the Daly’s death in its January 6th edition. BC does not appear to have released a statement in response to her passing.
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