User:Librarycasti9/Casey Miller
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Casey Miller was an American feminist and writer. She was born on February 26, 1919 in Toledo, Ohio.[1] Miller went to Smith college and studied philosophy.[1] After college, she was a lieutenant in the navy during WWII and worked as a cryptographer and code breaker.[3] She worked as the head of the publication department for Colonial Williamsburg.[1] She also worked as the curriculum editor for Seabury Press.[4] Later on, she began to work on trying to fix the language oppression and sexism.[1] She and her partner Kate Swift wrote numerous books like “The Handbook of Nonsexist Language”. [1] Her main focus was disrupting linguistic assumptions and stereotypes about women.[1] One of her visions about a language change is that when the gender of someone is unknown, you would use “tey”, “tem” and “ter”.[2] She struggled with chronic obstructive lung disease for eight years, and ultimately died on January 5, 1997.[3]