femcare

English

Etymology

Short for feminine care.

Noun

femcare (uncountable)

1. feminine hygiene
   • 2014, D. Nicole Farris, Mary Ann Davis, D'Lane R. Compton, Illuminating How Identities, Stereotypes and Inequalities Matter through Gender Studies:

     While there exists little debate over how femcare products have freed and liberated women by allowing more comfort and convenience, liberation has come at a cost since women become complicit in the creation of their Otherness.

   • 2014, Michael O'Loughlin, Marilyn Charles, Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering:

     By the 1940s, most menstrual education was taught in the classroom, often with educational materials produced by the femcare industry (Houppert, 2000). The shift may be explained in part by women's own reluctance to teach their daughters […]