femalehood

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femalehood

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From female + -hood.

noun

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-sha
Similar: femaleness, girlhood, womanhood

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@misc{femalehood_2026,
  title = {femalehood},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/femalehood},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}