Feminine

Few people know this, but J. Edgar was forced to pen his own unique counter-version of the Feminine Mystique which he entitled The Feminine Touch and which was all about how staying "feminine" meant staying happy with the clerk or secretary (GS-2 and 3) jobs then available to women at the FBI.

Coleen Rowley: Waving Flags for Dissent, the Highest Form of Patriotism 2008

For instance, following the capture and subsequent death sentence by court martial of a DSE partisan woman, the conservative Tripoli newspaper Alithia (Truth) published an article entitled 'Death to the Bloodthirsty Hyena: The Beast in Feminine Form' (7 December 1947).

Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

There was a conference going on while we were there called Six Days of Culture with workshops on such topics as "The Feminine from a Psychological Perspective," "The Feminine in Education," "The Brain-Masculine?

Searching for Sor Juana - Mexican poet 2001

There was a conference going on while we were there called Six Days of Culture with workshops on such topics as "The Feminine from a Psychological Perspective," "The Feminine in Education," "The Brain-Masculine?

Searching for Sor Juana - Mexican poet 2001

But she does so because she is alive, which means the Feminine is alive.

Archive 2009-08-01 Alice Walker Blog Administrator 2009

But she does so because she is alive, which means the Feminine is alive.

Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters "the horror" in Rwanda, Eastern Congo and Palestine/Israel Alice Walker Blog Administrator 2009

Literary nerds may enjoy the curious fact that for both those literary miserabilists (close neighbors on any decent bookshelf) modern heating appliances appear to have served as synecdoche for what one might call the Feminine Mundane:

F. Kafka, Everyman Smith, Zadie 2008

To initiates into the mysteries, the Feminine was a concept that was carnal, mystical and religious at the same time.

The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

To initiates into the mysteries, the Feminine was a concept that was carnal, mystical and religious at the same time.

The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

Some of the more significant writings are forthcoming in a translation by Juliet Mitchell and Jacqueline Rose entitled Feminine Sexuality in the School of Jacques Lacan (Macmillan, London: 1979).

Lacan: An Exchange Fleischmann, Fritz 1979