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the alliance no one signs up for and no one survives without.
means The bond of solidarity and mutual support shared among women, whether by blood, by cause, or by chosen kinship.
from A native English compound: "sister" plus the suffix "-hood," which once meant a state or condition (a cousin of "hood" as in "childhood" and "brotherhood"). "Sister" itself reaches back through Old English "sweostor" to a deep Proto-Indo-European root that surfaces across many languages — Latin "soror," Sanskrit "svasr" — making it one of the oldest family words we have. So "sisterhood" literally names "the state of being sisters," later widening from kinship to convents to feminist solidarity.
- shared origin
- means literally born of the same womb
- hidden hierarchy
- older sisters statistically lead family decisions
- chosen kind
- sororities adopt the word for strangers turned family
- borrowed clothes
- the original communal property system
the saint cecilia society — women's musical society founded 1762 in charleston, south carolina