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.
men have been in charge of according value to literature, and ... they have found the contributions of their own sex immeasurably superior. - Dale Spender
men have been in charge of according value to literature, and ... they have found the contributions of their own sex immeasurably superior.
- Dale Spender
For centuries women have been saying many of the things we are saying today and which we have often thought of as new. - Dale Spender
For centuries women have been saying many of the things we are saying today and which we have often thought of as new.
Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas. - Dale Spender
Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas.
Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators. - Dale Spender
Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators.
Language helps form the limits of our reality. - Dale Spender
Language helps form the limits of our reality.
When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all. - Dale Spender
When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all.
... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power. - Dale Spender
... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power.
This monopoly over language is one of the means by which males have ensured their own primacy, and consequently have ensured the invisibility or 'oth… - Dale Spender
This monopoly over language is one of the means by which males have ensured their own primacy, and consequently have ensured the invisibility or 'oth…
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 tal… - Dale Spender
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 tal…
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