modelhood
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modelhood (uncountable)
- The state or condition of being a model (all senses).
- 1990, George Boolos, Meaning and Method: Essays in Honor of Hilary Putnam, page 239:
- Although it's not essential to the project at hand, let's slightly modify the usual notion of modelhood. Sense-bearing languages can contain empty designators, a phenomenon that was idealized away by the notion of modelhood just introduced.
- 2000, Barbara Entwisle, Gail Henderson, Re-drawing Boundaries: Work, Households, and Gender in China:
- In short, the particularities of her history as a woman set up the conditions under which she could become a model; they cleared the ground for modelhood.
- 2011, Gail Hershatter, The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China’s Collective Past:
- The presence of a local labor model, as well as her style of modelhood, meant that village involvement with new state projects also entailed the embrace of the familiar.