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Wiktionary
- n. The act of making masculine.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction)
Examples
“We do not see the birth of God as much as the genesis of a certain masculinization of desire, the harnessing or transformation of (feminized) longing into the dialectical work of (masculine) self-consciousness, or what Hegel calls, in the Phenomenology, "Desire in general" (para.”
Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy
“At one extreme, some authorities, like Marynia Farnham and Ferdinand Lundberg, decried the "masculinization" of women, and mothers 'neglect of children during the war, urging a return to feminine domesticity.”
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583
“Today's high cesarean rates are due in part to the "masculinization" of birth environments, he added.”
“Although the National Health Service in Great Britain has paid for gender reassignment surgery for transsexuals since 1999, at a cost of approximately £10,000 per procedure, precisely how much masculinization or feminization should be funded by the taxpayers remains a matter of ongoing controversy.”
The Huffington Post: Jacob M. Appel: Are Breasts a Right or a Privilege?
“Although she and her colleagues claim they are trying to stop a congenital condition, the papers they write indicate they are also making sure girls are not subject to "behavioral masculinization.”
The Huffington Post: Marcia Reynolds: Who Decides What It Means to Be a Woman?
“It's not approved for use by pregnant women, it doesn't cure CAH so much as reduce some of the masculinization associated with it, and there are studies showing that it results in birth defects in animals.”
The Huffington Post: Alex Blaze: The Sad Lengths Some Go to Avoid Having a Lesbian Daughter
“Nimkarn and New continue: "We anticipate that prenatal dexamethasone therapy will reduce the well-documented behavioral masculinization ...”
The Huffington Post: Alex Blaze: The Sad Lengths Some Go to Avoid Having a Lesbian Daughter
“- Males inflicted with addiction and alcoholism (prior to masculinization of women) - Males (and blacks) celebrate "cool" and sex; similarities a clue which demands attention”
“However there IS an alternative:::: Assimilate through a process of masculinization.”
“A recurrence in the Minaj oeuvre, this substitution of a feminine identity with a masculine one is emblematic of the constant masculinization of the female body and self.”
PART 3/3: Nicki Minaj Responds to LL Cool J’s “Around the Way Girl” « Gender Across Borders
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