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Surviving to Speak New Language: Mary Daly and Adrienne Rich

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Jane Hedley
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Abstract

As radical feminists seeking to overcome the linguistic oppression of women, Rich and Daly apparently shared the same agenda in the late 1970s; but they approached the problem differently, and their paths have increasingly diverged. Whereas Daly's approach to the repossession of language is code-oriented and totalizing, Rich's approach is open-ended and context-oriented. Rich has therefore addressed more successfully than Daly the problem of language in use.

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Hypatia , Volume 7 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Philosophy and Language , Spring 1992 , pp. 40 - 62
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Copyright © 1992 by Hypatia, Inc.

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