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Definition of Superwomen
1. superwoman [n] - See also: superwoman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Superwomen
Literary usage of Superwomen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... 'Caleb Conover> (1907); 'The Fighter' (1909); 'Dad' (1914); 'Damon and
Pythias'; 'Columbia Stories'; 'Stories of the superwomen*; 'The Woman' (1912); ..."
2. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1912)
"... intensity.2 Their men and women are, if the term may be thus applied, "supermen"
and "superwomen," and their master passions are superlove and ..."
3. The Bookman (1917)
"superwomen. By Albert Payson Terhune. New York: Moffat, Yard & Company. Illustrated.
$2.50 net. Character studies of some notable women of history — Lola ..."
4. Ivory, Apes and Peacocks: Joseph Conrad, Walt Whitman, Jules Laforgue by James Huneker (1915)
"... but it must be confessed that his criminal supermen and superwomen usually
get their deserts. Like Octave Mirbeau, he faces the music of facts, ..."
5. A History of German Literature by Calvin Thomas (1909)
"... Nietzsche in its predilection for characters that live themselves out in a
spirit of reckless and vehement self-assertion—supermen and superwomen. ..."
6. Woman's Share in Social Culture by Anna Garlin Spencer (1912)
"Not in the sense of a mechanical control, that tries stupendous or even ludicrous
experiments in artificial production of supermen and superwomen; ..."
7. French Classicism by Charles Henry Conrad Wright (1920)
"In this [portrayal of unchangeable laws of human nature Racine was /.more universal
than Corneille, whose supermen and superwomen belonged to one age rather ..."
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