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Cheris Kramarae

  • “Facts: Words treated as statement of actuality by those who agree with them.”

    • Cheris Kramarae,
    • in Cheris Kramarae and Paula A. Treichler, A Feminist Dictionary ()

  • “[Sexism is] behavior, policy, language, or other action of men or women which expresses the institutionalized, systematic, comprehensive, or consistent view that women are inferior.”

    • Cheris Kramarae,
    • in Cheris Kramarae and Paula A. Treichler, A Feminist Dictionary ()

Cheris Kramarae, U.S. linguistic theorist, academic, feminist, writer

(1937)