BETWEEN SPEECH AND SILENCE: The problematics of research on language and gender

摘要: The historic silence of women in public life, and womenrs atternpts to gain a voice in politics and literature, have been major themes of recent feminist scholarship. It has become clear that gender relations are created not only by a sexual division of labor and a set of symbolic images, but also through different patterns of speaking and contrasting possibilities of expression for men and women. Feminists have explicitly written about scholarship's responsibl ity to rrhear womenr s wordsrr and have rightly argued the theoretical importance …