sexhood

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noun

The state or condition of one's sex or gender; sexuality.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

nounsexhood (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe state or condition of one's sex or gender; sexuality.

    [...] feminine and neuter articles used in the Greek are grammatical designations, and not designations founded on actual sexhood. There cannot be sexhood before flesh and form were created.

    1902, R. L. Harrison, An eastern exposition of the Gospel of Jesus according to St. John
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    Their very difference in outline shows the special differences in organic structure and mental function that appertain to typical sexhood, a fact that Buchner does not fully appreciate, it would seem.

    1897, Home university league, Self culture

    Second, wives swom to the use of their sexhood as their husbands may decree. Third, prostitutes, fated to the rotting out of their sexhood in the service of the wives, as fatuous publicists proclaim, that the home may remain “pure” and “sacred,” [...]

    1907, American Journal of Eugenics

    This act of lawlessness brought into existence a new type of humanity — apart from the abnormalism of dual-sexhood before referred to, — causing the extinction of the normal specific types.

    1916, Holden Edward Sampson, Scientific mysticism

    Why is it approached in such a roundabout fashion, through animal ecology, the sexhood of plants, the more or less pathological language of our cells, the sex of our chromosomes, of our brain, etc?

    1993, Luce Irigaray, Sexes and Genealogies

    As Calvin Hernton notes, despite the fact that the "Negro woman is denied virtually all the 'privileges and graces' of American culture ... according to the myth of Negro sexhood, it is the black woman who is endowed with an irresistible sexual [...]

    1995, Michael Moon, Cathy N. Davidson, Subjects and Citizens

Origin

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