ABSTRACT This article critically engages with the question of the continuing relevance of feminisms in the contemporary world. It explores the limitations and exclusions of feminisms, and considers the claim, increasingly being made, that feminisms today are facing a crisis, of identity and relevance. It argues for the end of feminism and feminist theology in their singularity and envisages self-reflexive feminisms as radically contextual tools of justice.

This article is based in a critical recognition of the determinate influence of Mary Daly's feminist ethical and theological reflection, particularly as found in her earlier work, on the development of Christian feminist theologies. It argues that the content and form of Daly's rejection of traditional religion constitute a clear alignment of feminist commitment with rejection of traditional religion that is fundamentally problematic for those advocating the possibilities of creative and liberative feminist Christian encounters. The rejection of traditional religion is (...) posited as an imperative of feminist consciousness, and as a testimony to feminist realisation. Such is the impact of Daly's critical articulation of the incompatibility of feminism and Christianity; she has influenced a dominant discourse about whether it is possible to be a Christian and a feminist. (shrink)