Abstract
RATHER THAN ATTEMPT to correct Ms. Killam's reading of my work (Rosemary N. Killam, Women Working: An Alternative to Gans, Perspectives of New Music 31, no. 2 (Summer 1993): 230-51), I would prefer to touch on a few issues raised by contemporary feminism and minoritary discourse in general. Since Ms. Killam's chief analytical tool seems to be the examination of gender pronouns, I begin with a formal remark: the generic use of the masculine pronoun was unquestioned in 1981 (when The Origin of Language was published), and even in 1985 (the date of The End of Culture); no editor suggested the kind of degendering emendations that have today become de rigueur. In my latest book, Originary Thinking (1993), references to man, mankind, and the like have been removed. It is remarkable how quickly changes such as this have come to pass and how
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