Friday, July 17, 2009

Woman on Mars Tomorrow?

In her recent book The Myth of Mars and Venus, ‘Do men and women speak different languages?’ is the rhetorical question posed by Deborah Cameron, who is Rupert Murdoch Professor of Language and Communication at Oxford. A thriving industry has grown up over the past few years of self-help books – such as Deborah Tannen’s You Just Don’t Understand: Men and Women in Conversation (1990) and John Gray’s Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus (1992) - based on the assertion that there are fundamental differences in the way men and women use language to communicate. -

Culture Wars | The Myth of Mars and Venus: Do Men and Women Really Speak Different Languages?


This article links to a number of others providing more indepth discussion:
The Myth of Mars and Venus « Feminist Philosophers

Here is a video of the author herself outlining her premise:
Meet the Author USA | Search for an Author | Deborah Cameron | The Myth of Mars and Venus

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