craftswomanship

== English == === Etymology === From craftswoman +‎ -ship, on the pattern of craftsmanship. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkɹæftswʊmʌnʃɪp/ === Noun === craftswomanship (uncountable) The body of skills, techniques, and expertise of (a) feminine craft(s). 1991 Duke L.J. 365 (Duke Law Journal); quoted in: 2000: Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic, Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge, page 275 (Temple University Press) When will I cherish my hair again, the way my grandmother cherished it, when fascinated by its beauty, with hands carrying centuries-old secrets of adornment and craftswomanship, she plaited it, twisted it, cornrowed it, finger-curled it, olive-oiled it, on the growing moon cut and shaped it, and wove it like fine strands of gold inlaid with semiprecious stones, coral and ivory, telling with my hair a lost-found story of the people she carried inside her? 2006: Alison Findlay, Playing Spaces in Early Women’s Drama, p200 (Cambridge University Press) Its swift intercutting suggests theatrical craftswomanship based on a working knowledge of the effects that could be achieved with shutters and scenery offered by the Theatre Royal. ==== Related terms ==== craftsmanship craftspersonship