Dale Spender
Dale Spender
Dale Spender is an Australian feminist scholar, teacher, writer and consultant...
reality limits helping
Language helps form the limits of our reality.
war law safety
Feminism has fought no wars ... killed no opponents ... set up no concentration camps ... starved no enemies ... practiced no cruelty. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety in the streets ... for reforms in the law.
mean invisibility males
This monopoly over language is one of the means by which males have ensured their own primacy, and consequently have ensured the invisibility or 'other' nature of females ...
men silence silent
The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women.
ideas language vehicle
Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas.
quiet talkative supposed-to-be
When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all.
communication mean media
Sexual harassment is becoming the modus operandi of the new world (on-line)... It is the means by which some males are conquering and claiming the new territory as their own.
running book past
When I learnt, however, that in 1911 there had been twenty-one regular feminist periodicals in Britain, that there was a feminist book shop, a woman's press, and a woman's bank run by and for women, I could no longer accept that the reason I knew almost nothing about women of the past was because there were so few of them, and they had done so little.
daughter reading writing
Well into the 19th century there were pronouncements from just about every branch of science and medicine that reading, writing, and thinking were dangerous for women. Articles in the Lancet declared that women's brains would burst and their uteruses atrophy if they engaged in any form of rigorous thinking. The famous physician J.D. Kellogg insisted that novel reading was the greatest cause of uterine disease among young women and urged parents to protect their daughters from the dreaded consequences of print.
reality people events
I know there is no danger that I will ever forget that people construct their own reality, that human beings are not led to the same version of events and of the world by the same physical evidence.
war real dying
There is a real split today between those who push the button and those who do the dying.
class white middle
what has been termed 'correct' English is nothing other than the blatant legitimation of the white middle-class code.
media mind patterns
Every medium - oral, written, print, and now electronic - has its own associated thought patterns and mind sets.
sex men literature
men have been in charge of according value to literature, and ... they have found the contributions of their own sex immeasurably superior.