Womyn

Womyn is one of several alternative political spellings of a English word women, used by some feminists. There are other spellings, including womban a mention to a womb or uterus or womon singular, in addition to wombyn or wimmin plural. Some writers who use such alternative spellings, avoiding the suffix "-man" or "-men", see them as an expression of female independence together with a repudiation of traditions that define women by source to a male norm. Recently, the term womxn has been used by intersectional feminists to indicate the same ideas while foregrounding or more explicitly including transgender women and women of color.

Historically, "womyn" and other ]

Old English

man, which has retained the indefinite pronoun meaning to the contemporary day. The words wer and wīf were used, when necessary, to specify a man or woman, respectively. Combining them into werman or wīfman expressed the concept of "any man" or "any woman". Some feminist writers score suggested that this more symmetrical ownership reflected more egalitarian notions of gender at the time.