Shelia still making waves
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Australian Academic and Feminist Dale Spender expresses her concern how universities are not adapting to meet the new technologies or are using them in a halfhearted fashion. She is very supportive of writers using the Internet and has worked on creating a interactive course for teachers. Spender suggests conflict between the sexes has been overtaken by conflict between the generations, as the young become more knowledgeable than their elders. Her book 'Man Made Language' is being republished. It was written in the 1970s and tackles how women's use of language is criticised by men.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1998
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What does it take to be a woman
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Berkeley California Professor of Rhetoric and Author Judith Butler questioned the work of feminist activists who supported using the law to stop pornography and the use of language hurtful to women. Butler suggests by using the law the problem will only be suppressed and not solved. Butler also challenged the idea of fixed genders, in her book 'Gender Trouble,' published in 1990. Her book was seen as a challenge to the ideas of feminists who believed in the biological determination of gender. Butler sees the use of language as a very important method of political subversion.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1998
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The feminist from suburbia
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The suburban appearance and some of the interests of Elaine Showalter seem at odds with her reputation as a leading feminist in America. Showalter is credited with virtually inventing feminist criticism, and has made women writers both visible and accepted. Showalter also invented the phrase 'gynocriticism' in a bid to make the female tradition of writing acceptable to male critics by using pseudo-scientific terms to describe it. However, Showalter refuses to be stereotyped or pigeon-holed, and she has also studied and written about psychological illnesses.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1997
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