sexhood
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]sexhood (uncountable)
- The state or condition of one's sex or gender; sexuality.
- 1897, Home university league, Self culture:
- 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.
- 1902, R. L. Harrison, An eastern exposition of the Gospel of Jesus according to St. John:
- [...] 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.
- 1907, American Journal of Eugenics:
- 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,” [...]
- 1916, Holden Edward Sampson, Scientific mysticism:
- 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.
- 1993, Luce Irigaray, Sexes and Genealogies:
- 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?
- 1995, Michael Moon, Cathy N. Davidson, Subjects and Citizens:
- 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 [...]
- 2006, Charles W. Close, Phrenopathy: Or Rational Mind Cure:
- While in low forms of cellular life there is no organic appearance of sex, it exists potentially, and as life develops a higher individuality organic sexhood appears.