RESPONSIVE READING - DALY, DIALOG AND DENUNCIATION (HENKING RESPONDS TO STEICHEN, VITZ AND VITZ, AND HEARN)

In rebuttal to critique this discussion continues dialogue with Hearn (1993) and responds to Steichen (1993) and Vitz and Vitz (1993) in thi s issue. Hearn's inclusion of Daly's most recent publication provides an important addition to the discussion. It clarifies Daly's early wor ks as revolutionary rather than merely reformatory in their context. H earn also aptly labels Daly's tendency to reject psychologists yet use their works as ironic (rather than unreasonable). It is more difficul t to dialogue with the other respondents. Although Daly is explicitly anti-male, that position need not be designated sexist in a partriarch al, misogynist world. Although Daly is angry, in a misogynist world wh y is her anger and fear paranoid? Although Daly's conceptualizations m ay not be unique, her material is worthy of attention as indicative of a cultural trend.