premise: 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 .
hypothesis: Tillie Olsen identifies silent periods when man 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 .