The Power of the Word: Culture, Censorship and Voice (original) (raw)

This pamphlet, written for the 1995 Beijing Conference on Women, is the first international treatment of gender-based censorship. It is also an argument for integrating culture and economic development. This was Women's WORLD's first extended treatment of the relationship of gender and censorship. It was written by Meredith Tax with input from a galaxy of international women writers. It has been translated into Russian, Spanish, Urdu, and ten other Indian languages. It contains descriptions of many censorship cases as well as a taxonomy of the various ways silencing occurs in women's lives.