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The Myth of Mars and Venus: Do men and women really speak different languages? by Deborah Cameron, Rupert Murdoch Professor of Language and Communication at Oxford University, argues that gender needs to be viewed in more complex ways than the prevailing myths and stereotypes allow. In the article below Cameron looks at historical stereotypes of female orators and reflects on Hillary Clinton’s primary run.
After Hillary Clinton lost to Barack Obama in Iowa, the London Times columnist David Aaronovitch suggested that part of Mrs. Clinton’s problem might lie in our contradictory attitudes to women’s public speech. If their style is assertive they are labeled “shrill” and “strident”; if it is softer and more conciliatory, that casts doubt on their ability to lead. However she speaks, it seems a woman cannot win. (more…)
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By Kurt Hettler, Marketing Director, Special Projects
In recent years, climbing Everest has become something of an industry (on one single day in 2003, nearly 120 people reached the top), and today when I learned of Sir Edmund Hillary’s death at 88, in his native New Zealand, I marveled at his extraordinary accomplishment. High Adventure is one of my favorite Oxford books. It brings to life all the unforgiving conditions the adventurers endured—the unstable snow ledges, the brutal weather, the chaotic icefalls—and shows how, with relatively low-tech equipment, but an indomitable will to conquer, they succeeded where many others had failed. Hillary recounts the two-year odyssey that began with the discovery of a new Southern route up Everest in 1951, continued with grueling training in the Himalayas the following year, and culminated with Hillary and his Sherpa, Tenzing Norgay, triumphing atop the summit in 1953. It’s the thrilling and remarkable story of risk and adventure, and a fitting final testament to a man that spent his life seeking new challenges. We here at OUP tip our hats at the passing of this simple man who climbed to the top of the world and came back down.
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Ben Keene just can’t get enough blogging! Check out the hot news story he dug up.
I can’t claim credit for breaking this story, but neither could I keep it to myself. Apparently, the secret to staying young isn’t an age-reducing cream or some sort of cocktail of pharmaceuticals and dietary supplements. It’s travel. At least that’s what has worked for Barbara Hillary (who also seems to think that remaining single has aided her longevity), a seventy-five year old former nurse who just returned from a trip to the top of the world, becoming the first African American woman to do so. Although it wasn’t until 1992 that she first ventured beyond US borders, Hillary has since visited Guyana and Manitoba, where she photographed polar bears. (more…)
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