#1 Q: Mary Daly viewed that the process of women’s liberation as putting women back in touch

with women’s original “wild” and “lusty” natural world and freeing them
from men’s “domesticating” and “dispiriting” cultural world?

A: “Hurrah”. She further viewed thatwomen must work hard to stop the patriarchal forces of
necrophilia—that is, of death. Most women, she claimed, have been seduced into cooperating
with the “phallocentric” system of “necrophilia”; they have become men’s “fembots,” permitting
themselves to be drained of their life forces.31 In the days of matriarchy,
Daly said, women reproduced through parthenogenesis, their eggs dividing and
developing independently of sperm.

#2 Q: the 1974 protest of twenty-seven northern Indian women to stop the felling of their
homeland’s small, indigenous trees is called a “Chipko Protest”. Chipko in Hindi language
means “to kiss”? Hurrah or Waley?

A: Waley. It means to hug. These women intended to cling physically to the trees if lumberjacks
attempted to cut down the trees. Shiva as well as Mies believed there are enough similarities
among women to motivate women to work together against capitalist patriarchy and the
destructive isms it spawns. As evidence that all women share similar interests in preserving
nature, Mies and Shiva provided numerous examples of Third World and First World women
struggling against ecological destruction and deterioration. Women, they noted, have led the
battle to preserve the bases of life wherever and whenever military and industrial interests have
threatened them.