Friday, October 6, 2017

orthography - "woman" or "women" as a stand-in for the adjective "female"?

As in,




Emily Dickinson was a great woman poet




or





Emily Dickinson was a great women poet




in order to mean




Emily Dickinson was a great female poet





Think I may have seen this adjectival usage of "women/woman" in a feminist art criticism paper, wondering if there's an accepted spelling...

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