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Daly, Mary (16 October 1928–3 January 2010), radical feminist philosopher and theologian  

Mary E. Hunt

Daly, Mary (16 October 1928–3 January 2010), radical feminist philosopher and theologian, was born of working-class Irish American parents in Schenectady, New York, where she grew up. Her father, Frank X. Daly, was a salesman; her mother, Anna Catherine Morse, who worked at home, would prove a lifelong support and friend to Mary, her only child....

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Young, Iris Marion (2 January 1949–1 August 2006), feminist theorist and political philosopher  

Michaele L. Ferguson

Young, Iris Marion (2 January1949–1 August 2006), feminist theorist and political philosopher, was born in New York City, the eldest of three children of Laurence Stephen Young, an insurance underwriter, and Marion H. Cook. Her father had dreamed of becoming a novelist, and her mother held a master’s degree in English and worked in magazine publishing before having children. They named Iris after her maternal grandmother, who had raised Marion as a single mother while working as a writer in advertising....