![]() that men will hold private conversations while a woman is talking. Spender also found that women are more often interrupted, their opinions more often discounted and. For example there was a consensus that women’s language is more irrational, emotional or aggressive. ![]() ![]() She found endless examples of how men exercise linguistic control by diminishing female talk on the grounds of it’s style rather than content. Her studies of mixed sex gatherings demonstrated how men maintain the dominant positions. In Man Made Language, Spender argued that since language is crucial to how we form identity, patriarchal language has a detrimental effect on women. It was obvious that research done by Dale Spender into how language functions was spot on. One of my main concerns was the lack of inclusive language in organised religious structures and in liturgy. ![]() Almost three decades ago I completed a PhD in feminist theology. ![]()
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