wo/man

noun

Man or woman.

Meanings

nounwo/man (plural wo/men)

plural wo/men

  1. Man or woman.

    [title]

    1980, William E. Phipps, Influential Theologians on Wo/man, University Press of America, →ISBN
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    The Complete Woman/Man Seminars wants to assure you that God is an intricate part of every complete wo/man’s life. He desires to have an intimate relationship with every wo/man who wants a relationship with Him.

    2002, Marcia B. Armstead, “Interpersonal Relationships”, in Olson Perry, Billy E. Wright, editors, The Complete Wo/Man: An Index to the Heart, TEACH Services, Inc., →ISBN, page 18

    The kosmopolis is the imaginary site of the ekklēsia of wo/men, where wo/men citizens gather for feminist religious “world making” for the “democracy to come.”

    2016, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Congress of Wo/men: Religion, Gender, and Kyriarchal Power, Eugene, Ore.: Wipf & Stock, published 2021, →ISBN, page 108

    The wo/man is the measure of all things / After Protagora’s “Man is a measure of all things” […] They share the same conviction that the theater is a collaborative, multicultural art which stands as a heartbeat of the community trying to find relevant answers to the fundamental question of our existence: “what a piece of work is a wo/man?”

    2017, Naum Panovski, “Prologue”, in Meetings with Remarkable Wo/Men: On a Long Journey to Theatre, Bloomington, Ind.: Archway Publishing, →ISBN

Origin

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