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Designed for anyone who works with words, this provides guidelines and a selection of 15,000 alternatives to help recognize bias in the English language, replace stereotypical language and improve communication skills. Also included is advice and background perspective on usage or word origin.
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This revision of the Nonsexist Word Finder: A Dictionary of Gender-Free Usage [RBB F 15 88] broadens its scope beyond terms prejudicial to women. It defines and suggests alternatives for approximately 5,000 words and phrases that are prejudicial to women or men or that are biased against people because of their race, age, sexual orientation, disability, ethnic origin, or belief system. Also included are words that describe various discriminatory practices (e.g., ageism), occupations that have in the past been limited to one sex (e.g., accountant), and terms that are not biased in themselves but cannot be fully understood unless the biases that underlie them are explained (e.g., violence). The book begins with a section that provides guidelines for nonbiased writing (which cites standards in the field) and a user's guide in which the author encourages writers to choose from the book's suggested alternative words "at their own levels of understanding and commitment." Entries in the A-Z section include, to varying degrees, definitions, see references, citations, and alternate words (i.e., nitrating-acid mixer is the alternative for acid man [explosives]). Some of the words included are blatantly prejudicial (e.g., manmade, gyp); others not so obvious (e.g., babble is included because it is "reserved for babies and women," legislator because out of "1,256 state legislators [16%] are women"). This book is unique because, rather than taking a style-manual approach where types of words are described under categories like Miller and Swift's Handbook of Nonsexist Writing (Harper, 1988), Maggio has created a dictionary of specific words and phrases. This is an excellent resource for all libraries. Developed from reference works, newspapers, magazines, and everyday speech, this collection of the "ways which people have found to deal with the bias in our language" will be useful as both a source of alternatives for biased words that are difficult to replace and a consciousness-raising experience. (Reviewed Oct. 15, 1991)
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A reorganization, revision, and extension of Maggio's The Nonsexist Word Finder (CH, Jan'88). Reorganization consists in some rewriting of the original "Appendix A: Writing Guidelines" and its repositioning before the dictionary proper. Appendix B, a 17-page section of readings, and the 4-page bibliography have been omitted. Within the 5,000 term dictionary (to judge from a 4% sample), about 24% of entry words are new; about half that many have been deleted; discussions of 27.5% have been very slightly revised; 38% remain the same; 10% have undergone major rewording/revision. Some added or revised entries are mini-encyclopedic essays on a topic rather than definitions. Scope is extended, as the title indicates, to forms of bias beyond sexism, notably racism/ethnicity and handicap/disability. Slightly more than half the apposite quotations that head letter divisions of the word list are new; some have been moved for no obvious reason. A worthy enterprise, occasionally seeming over-earnest even to one who routinely edits out biased language. In at least one case a definition is mistaken both in its etymology and its implied connotation. Useful in any library, but the 1988 edition should be retained for its bibliography.-V. Clark, Choice