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First they said they stood for "choice," then they changed their name to "pro-choice," and finally they obliterated the debate's physical substance by renaming it "the choice issue."
Tillie Olsen identifies silent periods when women are diverted from their work by needs of their families; Spender talks of “silence upon silence” that has kept women's experience from being encoded; Adrienne Rich, in On Lies, Secrets and Silences , sees women's struggle for self-determination “muffled or silenced over and over”; most recently, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar chart women authors' apparent alienation from language, their frequent use of pseudonyms an attempt at renaming or, really, naming themselves.
One would expect that a certain amount of common sense be exercised: Palm Drive and Bougainvillea Boulevard would be as out of place in Massachusetts as Yucca Lane; with the devastation wrought by Dutch elm disease, one might consider renaming all the streets in America named Elm Street to describe a hardier species.
In 1453, they took Constantinople, and immediately made it their capital, renaming it Istanbul.
Just inside the southern part of the ancient wall there is another street that has escaped renaming, although it commemorates a Fascist victory in the Italian-Ethiopian war.