Casey Miller
Casey Miller
Casey Geddes Millerwas an American feminist author and editor best known for promoting the use of non-sexist writing in the English language. Along with her writing partner, Kate Swift, Miller authored The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing and Words and Women...
children teaching use
conventional English usage, including the generic use of masculine-gender words, often obscures the actions, the contributions, and sometimes the very presence of women. Turning our backs on that insight is an option, of course, but it is an option like teaching children that the world is flat.
writing prejudice language
Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved.
native-language ideas skins
Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.
people connections antiquity
From antiquity, people have recognized the connection between naming and power.