An academic who taught for many years at the Jesuit-run Boston College, Mary Daly was a radical feminist philosopher and theologian. She published a number of books, including Beyond God the Father, a foundational book in feminist theology, and The Church and the Second Sex, arguing that religion and equality between women and men are not mutually exclusive. Creating her own theological anthropology based around the context of what it means to be a woman, Daly’s work continues to influence feminism and feminist theology, as well as the concept of biophilia through which humans seek connections to nature and other forms of life.