Dale Spender
Dale Spender
Dale Spender is an Australian feminist scholar, teacher, writer and consultant...
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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.
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.