feminine
Parents should be careful about the notions of masculinity and femininity they convey to their children.
She feels that working women should not be reluctant to express their femininity.
Her soft voice and gentle femininity made her a favourite leading lady in his films.

Examples of femininity

femininity
They experienced their clothes and appearance as expressive, and closely linked to a sense of their own femininity.
Thus, men repress their own feelings, devalue femininity because of its emotional side, are afraid of women and disappointing in their relationships with them.
As her legs became emancipated, markers of her femininity migrated upwards, making her another ambiguous creature.
Parisian consumption was the opposite, oriented not towards male activity, but towards a consumerism controlled by a femininity that distracted men from productive work.
The second part concentrated more specifically on exploring their understandings of masculinity and femininity in relation to soldiering.
Since the late 1970s, critics intrigued by the idea that music can enact gender, have heard their music as somehow embodying femininity.
The association of masculinity with the cerebral and femininity with the physical perhaps explains women's exclusion from credibility on these grounds.
These have in common declining social status and degradation of selfimage, as the cultural ideal, youthful femininity, can no longer be met.
This global interpretation, which is not based in contextualized empirical analysis, assumes a direct mapping among discourse, femininity, and powerlessness.
Certainly, she rejected - or possibly never even considered - using her femininity to personal and political advantage.
It is the intersection of assertions of femininity with cultural, class and racial identity which would have enriched this chapter beyond the discussion of dress.
And, conversely, histories of motherhood - and femininity - seemed so much more important in the development of new gender ideologies and practices.
Each song draws the listener into an image of femininity while threatening assumptions hinted at in the lyrics.
Offering formal training for teaching, which implied that women needed to be taught to teach, endangered this understanding of femininity.
More generally, it reflects the dualistic opposition of masculinity versus femininity and mind versus body that is so prevalent in our culture.
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