Dale Spender
Australian scholar (1943–2023) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dale Spender AM (22 September 1943 – 21 November 2023) was an Australian feminist scholar, teacher, writer and consultant. In 1983, Dale Spender was co-founder of and editorial advisor to Pandora Press, the first of the feminist imprints devoted solely to non-fiction,[1] committed, according to The New York Times, to showing that "women were the mothers of the novel and that any other version of its origin is but a myth of male creation".[2] She was the series editor of Penguin's Australian Women's Library from 1987.[3] Spender's work is "a major contribution to the recovery of women writers and theorists and to the documentation of the continuity of feminist activism and thought".[4]
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Dale Spender | |
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Born | (1943-09-22)22 September 1943 Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia |
Died | 21 November 2023(2023-11-21) (aged 80) Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
Nationality | Australian |
Notable works | Man Made Language (1980) Mothers of the Novel: 100 Good Women Writers Before Jane Austen (1986) |
Partner | Ted Brown |
Relatives | Sir Percy Spender (great-uncle) |
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In the 1996 Australia Day honours, Spender was appointed Member of the Order of Australia "for service to the community as a writer and researcher in the field of equality of opportunity and equal status for women".[5]