Spender, Dale (1943–)
Spender, Dale (1943–)
Australian historian, literary critic, educator and feminist. Born 1943 in Newcastle, NSW, Australia; educated at University of Sydney and London University.
Taught at American and Canadian universities and was visiting professor at University of London; founded Women's Studies International Forum and Pandora Press, London; co-founded the international data base on women, Women's International Knowledge: Encyclopedia and Data; writings, which seek to re-evaluate women's history and writing, include Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done to Them (1982), Man Made Language (1980, 1985), There's Always Been a Women's Movement (1985), Writing a New World: Two Centuries of Australian Women Writers (1988) and Nattering on the Net: Women, Power and Cyberspace (1996).