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English
Etymology
From womyn + -hood.
Noun
womynhood (uncountable)
- (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