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Muted Group Theory

Cheris Kramarae

Chapter 35
Cultural Context—Gender and Communication

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Abstracts appear in Appendix A of the 7th Edition

Man-made language aids in defining, depreciating, and excluding women. Women are less articulate in public because the words and the norms they use have been devised by men. As women cease to be muted, men will no longer maintain their position of dominance in society. (Critical phenomenological traditions)

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