Making Changes: The Debate on Sexist Language

Abstract

Twenty-three essays representing pro and con analyses by contemporary philosophers of the feminist claim that much of language is sexist and that the use of such language should be discontinued or supplanted by the use of non-sexist language. the contributors give various opinions about what sexist language is (and what it is not), why it should (or should not) be eliminated or replaced, and whether the uses of sexist language and racist language parallel each other in morally significant respects. debates over specific examples of sexist language are also included.