sexhood en · NOUN
Etymology
From sex + -hood.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The state or condition of one's sex or gender; sexuality.
While in low forms of cellular life there is no organic appearance of sex, it exists potentially, and as life develops a higher individuality organic sexhood appears.
2006, Charles W. Close, Phrenopathy: Or Rational Mind Cure:Their very difference in outline shows the special differences in organic structure and mental function that appertain to typical sexhood, a fact that Buchner does not fully appreciate, it would seem.
1897, Home university league, Self culture:This act of lawlessness brought into existence a new type of humanity — apart from the abnormalism of dual-sexhood before referred to, — causing the extinction of the normal specific types.
1916, Holden Edward Sampson, Scientific mysticism:[...] feminine and neuter articles used in the Greek are grammatical designations, and not designations founded on actual sexhood. There cannot be sexhood before flesh and form were created.
1902, R. L. Harrison, An eastern exposition of the Gospel of Jesus according to St. John:As Calvin Hernton notes, despite the fact that the "Negro woman is denied virtually all the 'privileges and graces' of American culture ... according to the myth of Negro sexhood, it is the black woman who is endowed with an irresistible sexual [...]
1995, Michael Moon, Cathy N. Davidson, Subjects and Citizens:Second, wives swom to the use of their sexhood as their husbands may decree. Third, prostitutes, fated to the rotting out of their sexhood in the service of the wives, as fatuous publicists proclaim, that the home may remain “pure” and “sacred,” [...]
1907, American Journal of Eugenics:Why is it approached in such a roundabout fashion, through animal ecology, the sexhood of plants, the more or less pathological language of our cells, the sex of our chromosomes, of our brain, etc?
1993, Luce Irigaray, Sexes and Genealogies: