Womanwords: A Dictionary of Words About Women

Product Information

And eggs! I discovered another interesting narrative when writing about ovulation in the book. Who here has heard the story that the sperm all have a race to get to the egg, and the best and strongest one is the WINNER?! But did you know that eggs are also ‘competitive’? I have as much muscle as any man, and can do as much work as any man.” — Sojourner Truth, “Ain’t I A Woman?”

I am thankful for my struggle because without it, I wouldn’t have stumbled across my strength.” ~ Alex Elle When I dare to be powerful — to use my strength in the service of my vision — then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” — Audre Lorde You should not have to hate others to feel empowered. You should feel empowered from within because the women around you have given you confidence to have a positive mindset and a belief that you can be and do anything. A woman doesn’t need to lift a car over her head to be strong. Indeed, women often show their strength in more measured ways than with physical strength. Women have shown lactation, pubic hair, period blood, crowning babies, the elation of positive birth, fat, cellulite, and more.Chapter 6 Lynn Abrams, "Talking about Feminism: Reconciling Fragmented Narratives with the Feminist Research Frame" Books are often a place of escapism, but when you find a book that makes you feel hopeful and inspired to live in the real world… that’s when you know you have found a good book. In the past 10 to 15 years, social media, for all its ills, has offered an opportunity for women to share and explore the biological experience of being female, uncensored. Well, not uncensored actually!

This May Exeter’s Dr Jenni Nuttall, Stipendiary Lecturer in English, will publish her first trade non-fiction book titled Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women’s Words . Inspired not only by her expansive knowledge of the English language but also by conversations with her teenage daughter and inquisitive students, Mother Tongue is a book for both language-lovers and feminists alike, and for anyone who wishes to embark on a deep-dive into the past to explore how women could vocalise their experience both then and now. In politics, If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.” — Margaret Thatcher An object or noun will follow “woman’s” directly in the sentence. This is done to show what it is that the “woman” owns.

Woman’s

This superb book teems with historical marvels and their 21st century resonances.’ REBECCA WRAGG SYKES, author of Kindred Chapter 20 Hourig Attarian, Shahrzad Arshadi, Khadija Baker, and Kumru Bilici, "Come Wash With Us: Seeking Home in Story"

Interestingly, it was a man who came up with the idea for the book, but it would be unfair to accuse writer Manchán Magan of mnásplaining. Understanding the limitations of both his gender and his “inherent 1970s conditioning”, he asked women artists to create visual representations of words for women’s parts, such as “an breallach meigheallach”, a word for vagina that means “bearded clam”, or “an láthair doluaite” which translates as “the unmentionable”, or “bosca” which speaks for itself. The artworks that go alongside them will be exhibited in the Fumbally Cafe in Dublin. Life is about finding yourself, embracing your strengths and weaknesses, and being true to who you are.” — Oprah Winfrey To make sure this doesn’t happen in your writing, use the following words to describe an intelligent woman: Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.” — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Chapter 25 Heather A. Howard, "‘Shut the tape off and I’ll tell you a story’: Women’s Knowledges in Urban Indigenous Community Representations"

9. Girl was once a unisex term

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land.” — Helen Keller, “Optimism: An Essay” There are no exceptions to the above rules. “Woman” is the singular, and “women” is the plural. While this is an irregular formation for pluralization, you won’t have to worry about it again once you remember how to do it. Women The more I have spoken about feminism the more I have realized that fighting for women’s rights has too often become synonymous with man-hating. If there is one thing I know for certain, it is that this has to stop.” ~ Emma Watson If we accept the OD as fact, though, we come to birth, even before labour starts, with low expectations of a woman’s capabilities. This is me in the pic, by the way, just after I birthed my second baby, at home, no drugs, no tearing, no stitches. She was ten pounds four!