Citations:gynergy
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female energy
[edit]- 1987, Mary Daly, edited by Jane Caputi, Websters' First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language[1], Boston: Beacon Press, →OL, page 77:
- Gynergy n : “the female energy which both comprehends and creates who we are; that impulse in ourselves that has never been possessed by the patriarchy nor by any male; woman-identified be-ing”—Emily Culpepper
- 1999 August 15, Carey Goldberg, “Facing Forced Retirement, Iconoclastic Professor Keeps on Fighting”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN:
- In a women-only class, said Megan Niziol, a former student of Dr. Daly's who graduated this year, “being together creates an energy that Professor Daly calls ‘gynergy.’”
- 2003, Mark Penny (tr.), “The Shadow of the Dalai Lama: Sexuality, Magic and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[3], translation of original by Victor & Victoria Trimondi:
- Clearly, to be able to realize his omnipotence, which should transcend even the sexual polarity of all which exists, a male tantric master requires a substance, which we term “gynergy” (female energy), and which we intend to examine in more detail in the following. […] The “ability to give birth” acquired through the “theft” of gynergy transforms the guru into a “mother”, a super-mother who can herself produce gods.
- 2008, Constance Wise, Hidden Circles In The Web: Feminist Wicca, Occult Knowledge, and Process Thought, Lanham: AltaMira, →ISBN, →OL, page 126:
- To give a second, more positive example, some feminists discern in our world a pattern of events they call “gynergy.” They see this reality in the lives of women as the power to create and sustain life. Although I disagree with any one-to-one correlation of this pattern with the female gender, I agree that gynergy provides a powerful social convention, one that spiritual feminists sometimes consider sacred.