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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Daly, Mary (16 October 1928–3 January 2010), radical feminist philosopher and theologian
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Inman, Mary (11 June 1894–January 1985), trade union organizer, Marxist theorist, and author
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Inman, Mary (11 June 1894–January 1985), trade union organizer, Marxist theorist, and author, was born Ida Mary Inman in Burnside, Kentucky, and moved to Creek Nation Indian Territory in Oklahoma when she was six. She was the fourth daughter and youngest of Mildred Taylor Inman and James Jett Inman’s nine children. Her mother died when Inman was eleven, her oldest sister died two years later, and she spent the next decade caring for her father and brothers....
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Young, Iris Marion (2 January 1949–1 August 2006), feminist theorist and political philosopher
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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....