herstory

Wordplay: blend of her +‎ history, derived as though the first syllable in history were his, the male pronoun.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɜːst(ə)ɹi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɝst(ə)ɹi/

herstory (countable and uncountable, plural herstories)

1. (nonstandard) History that emphasizes the role of women, or that is told from a woman's (or from a feminist) point of view.
   • 1984 April 21, Pam Gordon, “'There's Always Cost': Ferron's Boston Concert”, in Gay Community News, page 17:

     "Mama's Lullaby" shared the growth of McCord's appreciation for her mother and a prayer that her infant son might someday "sing this motther song with me"; a blending of the strong herstory of women's survival with the hope that men of the future will learn to praise their own capacity for nurturance.

2. (feminism) Any historical writing by or about women.
3. Biographical material about a woman.
   • 1989, “Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, "1969 Mother Stonewall and the Golden Rats"”, in The Stonewall Reader, Penguin Classics, published 2019, →ISBN, page 107:

     Nobody thought of it as history, herstory, my-story, your-story, or our-story.

• story

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “herstory”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.