Nina wrote
>male pronouns are treated by many religious people as including >women when
work is being handed out - but when privileges are >being defined, suddenly
"he" and "him" definitely mean "males only."
A point made by pioneering feminist Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (one of the
first women to study at Edinburgh University though unable at that time to
take a degree) in her 'The Sphere of man in relation to that of Woman in the
Constitution', 1907. Her conclusion was that ‘”man” always includes “woman”
when there is a penalty to be incurred but never includes “woman” when there
is a privilege to be conferred’.
She was the mother of the birth control pioneer Marie Stopes.
Lesley
Lesley_Hall@classic.msn.com
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