The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing

An indispensable guide for overcoming gender bias in language with clarity and sensitivity. Man, he, brotherhood, founding fathers. It is argued that such words are and always have been used by educated people to encompass all humanity—men and women. Psychological and historical research in the past few years has produced evidence to the contrary: for most people "false generics" seldom if ever convey a female image, nor are they ancient unchangeable rules of the English grammar that have a...