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Dale Spender AM AO | |
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| Born | 22 September 1943 Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia |
| Died | 21 November 2023 (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 | Professor Emeritus Edwin Thomas (Ted) Brown |
| Relatives | Sir Percy Spender (great-uncle) |
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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]
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]
- ^ Murray, Simone (2004). Mixed Media: Feminist Presses and Publishing Politics. London: Pluto Press. pp. 13–17. ISBN 9780745320151.
- ^ Gilbert, Sandra M. (4 May 1986). "Paperbacks; From Our Mothers' Libraries - Women Who Created the Novel". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
- ^ Brown, Diane (2005). "Review: Mixed Media: Feminist Presses and Publishing Politics". Media International Australia. 114 (1): 156–157. doi:10.1177/1329878x0511400122. ISSN 1329-878X. S2CID 158977395.
- ^ Daumer, Elisabeth; Runzo, Sandra (1985). "An interview with: Dale Spender". Feminist Teacher. 1 (2). University of Illinois Press: 16–21. JSTOR 25680528.
- ^ "Dr Dale SPENDER". Australian Honours Search Facility. Retrieved 26 November 2023.