Karen E Shirley, Rosemary Mander
Abstract
Language controls professional woman and inter-professional relationships, creating and maintaining power differentials. This article describes the relationship of language to power/knowledge. Words, when silent and controlling, maintain the asymmetry of power. Feminism and consumerism aim to correct the imbalance.
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Language controls professional woman and inter-professional relationships, creating and maintaining power differentials. This article describes the relationship of language to power/knowledge. Words, when silent and controlling, maintain the asymmetry of power. Feminism and consumerism aim to correct the imbalance.
Key concepts: Consumerism, Power (physics), Feminism, Psychology, Linguistics, Sociology, Social psychology, Computer science