womynhood

English

Etymology

womyn +‎ -hood

Noun

womynhood (uncountable)

1. (rare) Feminist spelling of womanhood
   • 1980, Susan J Wolfe, Julia Penelope, The Coming Out Stories

     Reclaiming my true womynhood, learning to truly know and love myself and other wimmin has taken time.

   • 2004, Bill Mullen, Afro-Orientalism:

     Indeed, the opera recovers the bound and raped bodies of Afro-Asian womynhood as evidence of the need for a transracial feminist dialectic...

   • 2008, Laurie J Kendall, The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival

     In one brave and defiant performance, she redefined the patriarchal constructions of beauty, femininity, and womynhood for all who saw her.

Translations

feminist definition of feminity

• French: féminitude (fr) f
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