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Dale Spender (born 22 September 1943)[1] is an Aus- Great Women Series (United Kingdom).
tralian feminist scholar, teacher, writer and consultant.
Today Spender is particularly concerned with intellectual property and the eects of new technologies: in her
terms, the prospects for new wealth and new learning.
For nine years she was a director of Copyright Agency
1 Early life
Limited (CAL) in Australia and for two years (2002
2004) she was the chair. She is also involved with the
Spender was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, a
Second Chance Programme, which tackles homelessness
niece of the crime writer Jean Spender (190170). The
among women in Australia.
eldest of three, she has a younger sister Lynne, and
a much younger brother Graeme. She attended the
Burwood Girls High School, in Sydney and she was a
Miss Kodak girl. In the early 1960s, as an MA graduate, 3 Personal life
she taught English at Meadowbank Boys High School, in
Sydneys north-western suburbs. In the latter half of the She has been in a relationship with Ted Brown for over
1960s she later taught English Literature at Dapto High three decades. They have no children. She consistently
School. She started lecturing at James Cook University dresses in purple clothes, a choice she initially made for
in 1974, before going to live in London and publishing its symbolic reference to the suragettes.[2] She currently
the book Man Made Language in 1980.
resides in Brisbane, Australia.
4 Publications
Work
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Delarivire Manley, Eliza Haywood, as well as
the achievements of Sarah Fielding, Charlotte
Lennox, Elizabeth Inchbald, Charlotte Turner
Smith, Ann Radclie, Mary Wollstonecraft,
Mary Hays, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Lady Morgan, Amelia Opie, and Mary
Brunton. She also provides a list of 106
women novelists before Jane Austen.
Writing a New World: Two Centuries of Australian
Women Writers (Penguin Books, 1988)
The Writing or the Sex?, Or, Why You Don't Have to
Read Womens Writing to Know Its No Good (1989)
Nattering on the Net: Women, Power and Cyberspace
(Spinifex, 1995)
Women of ideas and what men have done to them:
From Aphra Behn to Adrienne Rich (1992)
Living by the Pen: Early British Women Writers
References
External links
Website of Dale Spender
ABC Queensland prole of Dale Spender
ABC 'Talking Heads interview with Dale Spender
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