... a different approach. They used post modernists ideas - pluralism - multiple ideas being right. They looked at the high differences between women and men and issues of race, age and sex. Theories about language - understanding language. Later feminists looked at gender studies. TIMELINE OF EVENTS 1920 - American women got the vote. 1963 - The first law for prohibiting sexual discrimination passed - equal pay for equal work ... woman artists who made quilts, who had done the invisible "women's work" of civilization. I wanted to acknowledge them, to honour them." - Miriam Schapiro 5) Post...

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... . Deborah Tannen, Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., has written 19 books and many of them focus on the conversational styles between men and women. One of her theories on the relations between men and women is how men tend to be more literal about words and women listen for metamessages. A metamessage is an implied meaning or a heart meaning ... ) Tannen explains why women are more attuned to metamessages in her book That's Not What I Meant: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Relationships. Metamessages can be found through silence, body language...

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