founding mother
English
WOTD – 8 March 2022
Etymology
From founding (“who or that founds (establishes, starts) or founded”) + mother, modelled after founding father.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌfaʊndɪŋ ˈmʌðə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˌfaʊndɪŋ ˈmʌðɚ/
Audio (GA) (file) - Rhymes: -ʌðə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: found‧ing moth‧er
Noun
founding mother (plural founding mothers)
- A woman who founded (established or started) something.
- 1986, Johnnetta B. Cole, All American Women: Lines that Divide, Ties that Bind, →ISBN:
- She (Audrey Lorde) is a member of the founding collective of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press and a founding mother of SISA, Sisterhood in Support of Sisters in South Africa.
- 2003 April 21, Sara Delamont, Feminist Sociology, SAGE, →ISBN:
- There could even be a case made for treating Jane Harrison as a founding mother of social science (Beard, 2000).
- 2020 October 21, Kathleen Gallagher Elkins, Mary, Mother of Martyrs: How Motherhood Became Self-Sacrifice in Early Christianity, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN:
- The initial founding mother, Eve, becomes a paradigmatic figure in later Jewish and Christian exegesis […]
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Related terms
- founding father
- founding member
Translations
woman who founded something
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