Websters' first new intergalactic wickedary of the English language /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Daly, Mary, 1928-2010.
Imprint:	Boston : Beacon Press, ©1987.
Description:	xxv, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Witchcraft -- Terminology. Feminism -- Terminology. Social ethics -- Terminology. Patriarchy -- Terminology. English language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. English language. Feminism. Patriarchy. Social ethics. Witchcraft. Controlled vocabularies. Dictionaries. Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. Terminology. Dictionaries. Controlled vocabularies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13253154

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Other title:	Wickedary.
Other authors / contributors:	Caputi, Jane.
ISBN:	0807067067 9780807067062 0807067334 9780807067338
Notes:	Spine title: Wickedary. Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-310). committed to retain from JKM Seminaries Library 2023 JKM University of Chicago Library
Summary:	A bold and rollicking new dictionary spinning off from the work of radical feminism's most creative wordweaver, identified as the first and still the most challenging of contemporary philosophers.
Other form:	Online version: Daly, Mary, 1928-2010. Websters' first new intergalactic wickedary of the English language. Boston : Beacon Press, ©1987

Table of Contents:

The wickedary: its history/metamystery
Spelling: the casting of spells
Grammar: our wicked wiches' hammer
Pronunciation: denouncing, pronouncing, announcing
Guides to the wickedary
Elemental philosophical words and phrases and other key words
The inhabitants of the background, their activities and characteristics
The inhabitants of the foreground, their activities and characteristics
Exposing elementary terms and phrases: mummies, dummies, anti-biotics, and reversals
Be-laughing: nixing, hexing, and x-ing
Spinning beyond the compass: regaining the sense of directions
Jumping off the doomsday clock: eleven, twelve ... thirteen.

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