The First Passage: To my mother and foresister, Anna, whose vision extended beyond the boundaries imposed by patriarchal institutions--who always encouraged me to do my own work, and who opened the way for the Labyrinthine Journey
The Second Passage: To Jan Raymond, scholar of deepest integrity, true doctor of philosophy--trail-blazing Amazon/Searcher whose labrys/spirit awakens in other women the awareness of their own equality to the A-mazing task
The Third Passage: To Denise Connors, courageous Voyager, who has witnessed and understood--more profoundly than anyone I have known--the murder and dismemberment of the Goddess, and who survives to Re-member, Spark, and Spin

by Mary Daly is an interesting, if a bit on the whacky side of feminist texts. If you have no interest in feminist rhetoric, or any of that sort of thing, you don't need to waste any of your time with this, although it is certainly presenting a different viewpoint. (