What Does ‘He’ Mean?

Wendy Martyna

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“Those defenders of the generic masculine who are alternately amused and outraged by demands for nonsexist language seem to echo Humpty Dumpty's famous retort: ‘When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean.…’”

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1975Androcentrism in prescriptive grammar: singular ‘they’, sex-indefinite ‘he’, and ‘he or she’

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