A great article by Debbie Cameron in her blog "language: a feminist guide" reflecting upon the death of Zaha Hadid and the use of the word "female" in this matter. We have also come up against this lexical problem in L'Espace Féminin. Our personal approach has been to stick with "woman/women" in spite of the grammatical clumsiness of the phrasing. With this, we wish commit to a social frame of reference, and not a biological one.
