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sexhood - What does it mean?

Definition of 'sexhood'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • 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.