I. Male and Female Speech
    A. Language and social hierarchy
    B. Is there male and female English?
             Difference and dominance
                 intensifiers; verbs; tag questions
                 interruption patterns
                 silence and speech
    C. "He/Man" English: the generic "he"

II. Changing Language
    A. gender neutral terms
    B. female language
             Rich; LeGuin; Rios, "Three Tongues"
    C. New Words:
            Woolf: "In an age when many qualities are changing their values, new words,
            to express new values, are much to be desired."
    D. Breaking silence in speech
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III. Breaking silence in writing
    A. Women's Historical silence
            Tillie Olsen, Silences
    B. Feminist Accounts of women and creativity
            Nochlin, "Why Were There No (Few) Great Women Artists/Writers ....?"
                l. innate
                2. suppression          (Woolf, A Room of One's Own)
                3. Anon. was a woman and rediscovered texts
                4. female creativity
                     Walker, LeGuin, Rich, The Dream of a Common Language
                      Joy Harjo, "She had Some Horses"