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.
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.
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.
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.
women past documentation
It is partly the absence of recorded history which sends women now to the lives of women past for the detailed documentation of their daily lives.