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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

femalehood en · NOUN

Etymology

From female + -hood.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state or period of being female.
    • Gender inequality was a serious matter for the feminist performer Hannah Wilke (1940-1993), who in a photograph of her face from her “S.O.S. Scarification Object Series” (1974) sardonically calls attention to her femalehood by wearing her hair in curlers and plastering her face with small, vulva-shaped patches of chewing gum. 2007 January 5, Grace Glueck, “Self-Portraits That Obscure the Self”, in New York Times:

Synonyms

girlhood · femaleness · womanhood