different between craftspersonship vs craftswomanship

English

Etymology

craftsperson +? -ship, on the pattern of craftsmanship.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?æftsp??s?n??p/

Noun

craftspersonship (uncountable)

1. The body of activities, skills, techniques, knowledge, and expertise pertinent to (a) particular craft(s).
   • 1935: Arts Magazine, page 140 (Art Digest Inc.)

     The carpenter’s role – like that of a story told 1900 years earlier – is not to craft, for in his craftspersonship he is faulty, but to comprehend.

   • 2001: Stephen Gudeman, The Anthropology of Economy: Community, Market, and Culture, page 115 (Blackwell Publishing)

     This artisanship or craftspersonship was the sort of Enlightenment activity extolled by Diderot in the eighteenth century.

   • 2007: John Henderson, The Medieval World of Isidore of Seville, page 205 (Cambridge University Press)

     The olive too they say belongs to this pioneeress, and craftspersonship, plus many arts and crafts are this inventress’s.

Usage notes

• Some modern authors prefer the epicene term craftspersonship to the feminine craftswomanship and the masculine (though traditionally considered gender-nonspecific) craftsmanship; nevertheless, in common usage, craftsmanship is thousands of times more common than craftspersonship.

Related terms

• craftsmanship
• craftswomanship

References

English

Etymology

craftswoman +? -ship, on the pattern of craftsmanship.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?æftsw?m?n??p/

Noun

craftswomanship (uncountable)

1. The body of skills, techniques, and expertise of (a) feminine craft(s).
   • 1934: Joseph Kirk Folsom, The Family: Its Sociology and Social Psychiatry, p296 (J. Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

     …were to cease purchasing machinery, labor-saving devices, hired service, ready-made food and clothes, and go back to the old-fashioned craftswomanship.

   • 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