DALE SPENDER

• Man made language - 1983 book
• they way language is constructed favours men

  men have been more able to have their opinions heard

  words are more likely to express male experiences than female

  men have held more power in society
• what is the ‘male as norm’ principle?

  claims male linguistic bias works to exclude and ignore women, diminish the female experience and determine that female ideas or forms are unfit to represent many social categories