femalehood

English

Etymology

female +‎ -hood

Noun

femalehood (uncountable)

1. The state or period of being female.
   • 2007 January 5, Grace Glueck, “Self-Portraits That Obscure the Self”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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-shaped patches of chewing gum.

Synonyms

• femaleness
• girlhood
• womanhood