Feminist dressed in purple had passion for women’s equality
DALE SPENDER: 1943-2023
“Feminism has fought no wars. It has killed no opponents. It has set up no concentration camps, starved no enemies, practiced no cruelties.
Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety in the streets, for child care, for social welfare, for rape crisis centres, women’s refuges, reforms in the law.
If someone says, ‘Oh, I’m not a feminist’, I ask, ‘Why? What’s your problem?”
― Dale Spender, Man Made Language
At heart a teacher and a writer and always a feminist, Dale Spender lived a life driven by passion for women’s equality and for education. She published and edited more than 30 books and many more articles, book chapters and blog entries on feminism, women’s history and literature, education and new technologies. She brought numerous women along with her, attested by the number of publications written or co-edited with other established and new writers.
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