femaleness

• “That women have, on average, behaved differently than men doesn't necessarily mean any one woman's femaleness is the reason why.”

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• “Starbuck's [flaws] flow directly from [her] femaleness, which is why I feel that they represent stereotypes.”

  Lamest. Feminist Icon. Ever.

• “• She's defined by her sex, reduced entirely to her femaleness, which is, after all, simply not-maleness”

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• “And the other side to that coin is the "don't be controlled by your 'femaleness'" culture.”

  Archive 2009-02-01

• “Being overly simplistic, one is the "embrace your 'femaleness'" culture, which celebrates women as powerful beings and proto-goddesses - when they don't deny their own bodies, that is.”

  Archive 2009-02-01

• “Or, it ties into the "hide your true 'femaleness' and show a male-defined femininity" culture of waxing, shaving, toning, tanning endorsed by the mainstream.”

  Archive 2009-02-01

• “In her article, Dreaming of a Pink Christmas, Ball considers how toys are "still unbelievably segregated along strict gender lines" to the extent that 'femaleness' is seen as "humiliating for boys.”

  Thinking Pink

• “Not to mention the fact that to my understanding, queer theory complicated the idea of monolithic "femaleness" years ago... why are we still walking around acting like second-wave feminists, here?”

  Women Speak

• “Possibly, Professor Vendler; skimming, has mixed up this idea with another, which runs throughout the book from Egypt on: I make a sharp distinction between the normally synonymous terms "femaleness" and "femininity.”

  Feminism and Literature: An Exchange

• “I began to feel wretched about my loss of the centre of my "femaleness", I felt suddenly very old, and everyone warned me I would definitely get fat!”

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