How To Use Femininity In A Sentence

In general culture, references to women often reflect stereotyped versions of femininity with the term feminine. Wild Feminine
But in this present world we have entire nations that see the woman, her nature, and her femininity as worthless, unimportant, purposeless, and unproductive. Women must ask whose thinking is that?
Its concern with celebrating femininity encourages it to pass over more of traditional psychology's gender biases than egalitarian feminist psychology does.
She loves pink for what it represents: femininity, elegance and classic style.
Women who choose to remain childless are free to compete as men do but their femininity is suspect and it, rightly, pisses them off. It’s My Motherhood, And I’ll Celebrate It If I Want To | Her Bad Mother

I had a strong sense of her femininity; she was wearing nail varnish, and had an aura of faintly sweet scent. Seminary Boy
Costumes were sparse, with the only indicator of femininity for Helena and Hermia an occasional handbag.
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Who can articulate a discomfort with the subliminally retro Betty Crocker ideals about femininity (the gyno/Easy-Bake Oven connection!) or ponder the limited entrepreneurial choices for women, even in 2010, when your mouth is full of chocolate ganache? TV Preview: What's new in 'D.C. Cupcakes'? Too little.
Modern feminists don't want to trade in their femininity for drab power suits and a brief case.
A boyish, boxy top complements its flippy femininity. Times, Sunday Times
The story explores the contradictions of teenage masculinity and femininity and contrasts Japan past and present. Times, Sunday Times
The word 'lady' has connotations of refinement and excessive femininity that some women find offensive.
Danielle ‘Danny’ Sofer is conflicted, trying to maintain her femininity while beating down street scum on a daily basis.
Below: A study in subdued femininity -- a tailored oxford cloth shirtwaist dress with a surprise: a hand crocheted butterfly lace collar. Modest Feminine Dress From the Pages of 1990 Victoria Magazine
She plays virgin and vamp, giving mixed messages that only reinforce our polar images of femininity.
Woman's femininity – and "the eternal feminine" means simply the eternal sexual – is more apparent in proportion to her humanity than the femininity of other animals in proportion to their caninity or felinity or equinity. Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution
This mass of sensually charged femininity will attract male visitors eager to contribute their economic stimulus.
The F, or femininity, scale measures socially desirable personality traits perceived to be stereotypically characteristic of women.
Women who choose to remain childless are free to compete as men do but their femininity is suspect and it, rightly, pisses them off. It’s My Motherhood, And I’ll Celebrate It If I Want To | Her Bad Mother
The perfect complexion, bedroom eyes and Greek statue-like features, coupled with all the right poses, and with a nose for scenting a camera as highly developed as a tiger senses prey, all suggests total femininity, even if his long blonde hair has been teased into a French pleat, and resembles what he calls "granny chic. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. 'Belle de Jour' was produced in 2002/2003.
It is one of those foreign feathers, like intimism, intimity, femininity, distinction and distinguished (the last pair now banalities if anything was ever banal; so do extremes meet), in which writers of literary criticism love to parade, and which ordinary persons should do their best to pluck from them, protesting when there is a chance, and at all times refusing the compliment of imitation. Formations.
Its attitudes are a Hare-brained mixture: both principled and progressive – not many dramatists make a woman representative of an era – and sentimentally flawed, since that woman, sensitive, volatile, beguiling, is aflutter with traditional femininity. The Children's Hour; Plenty; The Heretic – review
Obviously there are some really imature men that regard a womens femininity as being a green light to permisive behavior on his part without understanding that the woman in this case is just being her feminie self and not giving the moron a green light for anything. Home
Joan Brown's irreverent explorations of the conflicted roles associated with femininity make her seem as well a kind of godmother to contemporary Bad Girl artists such as Karen Kilimnik and Nicole Eisenman.
This is not to suggest that the new clothes themselves caused changes in femininity, although it is arguable that the clothes helped women experience their bodies in new ways. "Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930
The paranoia reading was low for someone with the prisoner's apparent intelligence, nor had he scored high in psychopathic deviation, schizophrenia, hypomania, depression, hysteria, masculinity/femininity, psychasthenia, or social introversion. The Girls He Adored
To balance the tomboy elements in her look, she highlights her femininity and her rocker edge through subtle sparkle by implementing marcasite rings and brooches and clothing with stud embellishments into her wardrobe. Meet the concept intern! | Free People Clothing Boutique Blog
As founding Peas, me, Apl, and Will had been tight since way back, and in walked this stranger from Hacienda Heights who fit in like some long-lost relative, and she was sexy without being catty, confident without being arrogant, strong without being over-domineering, and tomboyish without losing her femininity. Fallin’ Up
This shows her success, founded on the ability to project an almost mythical femininity.
Cindy's loose hair and sporty tank top are used to suggest a late twentieth-century femininity which is supposedly more liberated.
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
He tackles human freedom and also our views of masculinity and femininity. Christianity Today
Barbie, that plastic icon of childish femininity, has appeared in many guises over a long but curiously unwrinkled life.
For added femininity, wear with heels and leather leggings. Times, Sunday Times
As a cuspy second/third wave feminist, I tend to pick and choose amongst the dictates of contemporary femininity. Calgon, Take Me Away
These designers focused on easy, ungimmicky femininity and excelled at producing gorgeous clothes that will speak directly to the customer. Times, Sunday Times
Becoming a hijra is a process of socialization into a “hijra family” through a relationship characterised as chela “student” to guru “teacher”, leading to a gradual assumption of femininity. The Hijras « bollywoods most wanted photographerno1
Femininity is still defined in terms of beauty.
Of course, I'd prefer to be taller, but my petiteness provides a perfect perch to express my femininity. Tess Ghilaga: Sole to Soul
She was beautiful: a sultry brunette with a seductive voice and she oozed femininity.
So, she hid her femininity behind demureness, read her poems with eyes downcast and scuttled back to the safe haven of domesticity.
Long hair was traditionally regarded as a sign of femininity.
“A short animation clip that deals with the minimizing of the abstract and subjective term femininity into statistics.” No Fat Clips!!! : LIRON KROLL – How Much of a Woman
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, saw his psychosexual fantasies as reflective of today's hybrid youth culture and our hybrid identities: "Challenging our facility to read the signs of masculinity, femininity, race, attitude, and expression, Chadsey's images spin a complex web of emotion and desire. ArtScene: This Month's Top Exhibitions in the Western United States
What also galls me is that these women are claiming not only sex, but femininity itself as a uniformly passive, gentle, loving, pacifist attribute.
This season's touchstone of understated femininity is soon to be passed over in favour of sexed-up, vibrant skirts and dresses, as seen at Roland Mouret, or in favour of a new androgyny championed on the catwalk by Dries Van Noten and Balenciaga. Paris fashion week: wardrobe updates
The second assumption is that females require step-by-step instruction and continuing education in the arts and crafts of femininity.
They don't understand that taking back our femininity is not the same as having it imposed upon us. Times, Sunday Times
Thoughts on aging and femininity from a veteran cultural observer. Cover to Cover
The photographers, who have backgrounds in commercial and artistic photography, including nudes, say they felt it was important to allow the women to decide how best to express their grieving processes and grapple with their changed views of femininity after their mastectomies. The Power of an Image
Masculinity, just like femininity, is a performative act. Blog Against Sexism – Some (disjointed) thoughts on Masculinity & Masochism | Living the Liminal
The wine is billed as if women's palates require bland, de-alcoholized wine or worse, that their femininity compels them to steal away to the boudoir to down a bottle of the stuff before covering up the evidence with mouthwash and a spritz of White Diamond. Molly Laas: Drinking While Female
He tackles human freedom and also our views of masculinity and femininity. Christianity Today
Be proud of your femininity, your intelligence, and your ability to create life.
But what place does such a seemingly out-dated picture of femininity have in today's post-feminist world of working women and sensitized men?
It thematizes the relationship among the toilette, painting, and self-representation, and defines that relationship as a matter of mondaine values rather than as a matter of femininity.
Her constant changing of outfits, hairstyles, and so on, reminds viewers that femininity is constructed, not natural.
In view of the astrological symbolism of these metals, that gold should be masculine, silver feminine, does not surprise us, because the idea of the masculinity of the sun and the femininity of the moon is a bit of phallicism that still remains with us. Bygone Beliefs
Their masculinity enhances the femininity of their wives and girlfriends. Times, Sunday Times
That "acceptable femininity" has expanded in scope is unquestionably a good thing, and while we're not there yet, one can see the day coming when girls are considered girls simply for being girls, no matter their dress, interests, hair length, or sexual orientation. Feminism is good for boys & men
Hence, masculinity, femininity and homosexuality were transformed from the realm of biological necessity to that of custom.
She probably had a pretty face to start with, but her manner and grace was quite a study in femininity.
‘To imagine oneself a gypsy,’ she writes, ‘is to escape, in some sense, from conventional femininity; it is also to claim kinship with those who mirror and explain one's anomalousness’.
The modulation from aggrieved femininity to fawning submissiveness in her wooing is masterfully handled.
Also implied was the suggestion that femininity coupled with an aggressive stance is desirable.
This mass of sensually charged femininity will attract male visitors eager to contribute their economic stimulus.
That same year, the psychological profession adopted the Bem Sex-Role Inventory, a scale that measured masculinity and femininity as separate and coexistent within an individual. A Renegade History of the United States
Forms of knowledge that simply valorize the ‘feminine’ may not be helpful to women who would be better off not having norms of femininity imposed on them.
he was shocked by the softness of the atmosphere surrounding the young prince, arising from the superfluity of the femininity that guided him
Initially attired in heavyweight fabrics, and sackcloth aprons - the sort of robust clothing necessary to withstand the rigour of their work - the girls were often criticised for their lack of femininity.
The biological fact of her femininity took precedence over serious critical evaluations of her work.
You don't have to lose your femininity to be an independent, successful woman.
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No, saris are not symbols of delicacy, of fragile femininity; of posh don't-get-your-hands dirty pettiness!
They were not in disguise, so clearly they were able to maintain some semblance of outward femininity while aboard these ships. Smithsonian Mag
In many western societies, an idealized femininity is often identified with refinement, and refinement in turn with the dominant language.
Editors sought to represent an idealized femininity in their miscellanies, excluding more challenging poems that threatened the moral code. The Times Literary Supplement
Then at last the timorous, cunctatory worshiper of femininity in the abstract declared himself and prayed to know if the good news could be true. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
This energy emanated from a medium traditionally associated with nourishing food and nurturing femininity.
Reading this passage was the first time I found anyone put into words what I felt … which was that femininity is not at odds with intelligence and competence, that the two are perfectly able to complement each other. WE RULE THE WORLD; WE JUST LEAVE THEM THE DRY PARTS
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She sustains a neat balance between ambition and compassion, femininity and ballsiness which allows at least a glimpse into the war correspondent's dilemma.
The story explores the contradictions of teenage masculinity and femininity and contrasts Japan past and present. Times, Sunday Times
The word 'lady' has connotations of refinement and excessive femininity that some women find offensive.
Flowery decorations in the silky fabrics reflect femininity in a perfect way.
They are always looking for something softer and feminine to recall their femininity. Times, Sunday Times
Though boxing is a male-dominated sport, she says she has never had to check her femininity at the door.
Femininity is still defined in terms of beauty.
In Seduction and Betrayal, for example, she located Virginia Woolf's special and claustral narrowness, her aggravated femininity, less in her situation as a woman than in the aestheticism and androgyny of Bloomsbury. On Elizabeth Hardwick (1916–2007)
It is precisely through the icon and image of the mother that femininity has been made respectable. Mothers who Leave
This opposition of free dance versus ballet presents a two-dimensional portrait of past representations of femininity.
I have reevaluated my collection of necklaces, most of them unworn, many of them gestures intended by my mother to fertilize the stunted signifiers of my femininity.
Offering femininity that is elegant yet at the same time mysterious, dressed in fabrics as impalpable as desire.
It also posits that femininity and masculinity are socially constructed rather than biological givens, emphasizing the performativity of gender.
While Digger men might have found this version of earth-mother femininity alluring from a distance, they would have recoiled from Gaskin's suggestion that "men are supposed to be really chivalrous and ... knightly and help [ 'ladies'] ... to do that. Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583
But for all that swagger, what makes Kael superlative is her femininity. Another 5001 Nights at the Movies
For many people, roses symbolise passion, sexuality and femininity.
Psychology, like other discourses, associates subjectivity with femininity, and objectivity with masculinity.
The designers decided that the new trend was ‘High Femininity’: girly, pretty, flouncy and frilly clothes.
Those men who fear doing anything unmasculine, who wield the charge of femininity like a weapon, are finally undone by that fear.
His female seductress represents femininity as a threat to the coherence of the all-male society of military officers.
Dara challenges our stereotypical ideas about gender and femininity.
They don't understand that taking back our femininity is not the same as having it imposed upon us. Times, Sunday Times
Femininity is still defined in terms of beauty.
It was an attractive mirror of her political message: man-tailored with a dash of pink femininity. Archive 2007-01-01
But these theories' notions of culturally stable femininity often elide with their concept of a biologically stable individual.
Interwar feminism rejected the philanthropic 'tea-drinking' culture represented by Parren and the women of the Lyceum, their idealisation of folk arts and crafts for their perceived ethnic authenticity and supposed embodiment of true Greek femininity. Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
But take to the practice field of the Calgary Rockies women's contact football team and thoughts of genteel femininity disappear in an instant.
Its concern with celebrating femininity encourages it to pass over more of traditional psychology's gender biases than egalitarian feminist psychology does.
He speaks in lurchy, barely articulate ejaculations, set to curiously clunky music that in its effort to avoid fluid femininity slips at times into rather conventional patterns like imitative counterpoint and ostinatos.
The destruction of femininity is an erosion of civilisation.
I had a strong sense of her femininity; she was wearing nail varnish, and had an aura of faintly sweet scent. Seminary Boy
Performances of femininity are all about adding on - breasts, makeup, sparkly boas, frills, and flounces.
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These matters concern the sexed body, masculinity, femininity, sexuality, and reproduction.
Through haunted nights he had fought maddening memories of Io's shadowed eyes, of the exhalant, irresistible femininity of her, of the pulses of her heart against his on that wild and wonderful night in the flood; and he had won to an armed peace, in which the outposts of his spirit were ever on guard against the recurrent thoughts of her. Success A Novel
It's a cliche to say that science is associated with masculinity and the arts with femininity.
Counting women in among feminist psychologists on the grounds of their biological or cultural femininity also neglects differences between them.
Later, when she began to menstruate, she felt embarrassed and ashamed by this monthly reminder of her femininity. Wild Feminine
She's eccentric but never dotty and, unlike some Arcatis, her femininity is never in doubt.
Onnagata, kabuki actors who specialize in female roles, embody an ideal of refined ultrafemininity.
_Wonderful Woman_ is perhaps less a novel than an analysis -- painfully close, with a kind of regretful brutality in it -- of one special type of femininity, and a glance at several others. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 7, 1914
Until Stonewall, psychologists not only considered homosexuality to be a mental illness but also thought of masculinity and femininity as inversely proportional within an individual. A Renegade History of the United States
Delicious and demure the dress is successfully re-mastered in a season where soft femininity is the story of the day.
The grotesqueness of the story is rendered through the ridiculously difficult process of choosing a proper dress that will emphasize the heroine's femininity and attractiveness.
This characterisation is problematic, as here Mehta is reinforcing the stereotype of docile, demure, and pristine femininity as the ideal form of South Asian womanhood.
They are always looking for something softer and feminine to recall their femininity. Times, Sunday Times
But a second aspect of “feminism” (I find the term problematic because of this very dichotomy) that seems at least as important is fostering values that challenge that power structure, and which for whatever natural and cultural reasons are loosely (though only loosely) associated with femininity. Race v. Gender | Mind on Fire
The collection also highlights femininity through soft cutting lines.
Put the accent on femininity with this classy suede-and-lace clutch.
No faces or figures make it into the frame, presenting the sort of fragmentary view of the female body that in most any other context would constitute blatant objectification but here reads as a desexualized, intensely vulnerable collage of femininity. The Nervous Breakdown
The exhibit looks at animalism and concepts of femininity, sexual fetishes, seduction, excess, coquetry and class standing.
Sadly, where I live and work in science in the real world, femininity is indeed looked down on as a marker that a woman could not possibly be serious about science. On Being a Woman and a Scientist
Intellectual pursuits were considered as threatening a girl's femininity and potential marriageability.
In an effort to make the increasingly mechanized work of the office more attractive to women - and more compatible with Victorian ideals of femininity - typewriting was compared with playing the piano.
And becoming the equal of men, they could--without complex--redevelop their femininity and sensuality. Beth Arnold: Letter from Paris presents...Paris Fashion Report
She's a woman, and dresses with style and femininity, which is wonderful to see.
It's a cliche to say that science is associated with masculinity and the arts with femininity.
She probably had a pretty face to start with, but her manner and grace was quite a study in femininity.
Anna is extremely feminine and her femininity translates into her fashions. '
Men may well have envied the social and economic parasitism of middle-class femininity, despite the Victorians' idealization of home life.
The Creator gave me eyes and senses to thrill to the appeal of femininity.
The word 'lady' has connotations of refinement and excessive femininity that some women find offensive.
While the artist continues to look into the beauty of womanhood in all its femininity and grace through this technique, the watercolours reflect his old passion for architectural forms.
The ‘queer fantasy’ that the film offers is thus that of a world in which desire and masculine identity are fluid, unfixed, and endlessly remakable, while femininity is pathologized through parody.
They are always looking for something softer and feminine to recall their femininity. Times, Sunday Times
To me they epitomize the essence of femininity.
Woman's femininity – and "the eternal feminine" means simply the eternal sexual – is more apparent in proportion to her humanity than the femininity of other animals in proportion to their caninity or felinity or equinity. Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution
At its worst, the exhibition muddied such sociological pronouncements with a problematic celebration of beauty, ideality and essential femininity.
But in this preoedipal phase of psychological development there is no evidence that masculinity or femininity will follow predetermined routes.
Washed and crumpled cotton, silk and linen contribute to a tone of ease and effortless femininity.
There was an interesting dichotomy between Samantha and Charly, almost like a dualism between femininity and masculinity.
Just as your self-concept as a woman affects many realms of your life, each step you make in relating to and cherishing your femininity will have multiple positive impacts. Wild Feminine
It is one of those foreign feathers, like intimism, intimity, femininity, distinction and distinguished (the last pair now banalities if anything was ever banal; so do extremes meet), in which writers of literary criticism love to parade, and which ordinary persons should do their best to pluck from them, protesting when there is a chance, and at all times refusing the compliment of imitation. Formations.
The exhibit looks at animalism and concepts of femininity, sexual fetishes, seduction, excess, coquetry and class standing.
And I adore the way sandalwood, ambrette and patchouli create a leathery quality in the base of Mythique, giving its flirtaceous, vivaceous, girly femininity a dark, subversive depth. Parfums Delrae Mythique: Perfume Review
But what place does such a seemingly out-dated picture of femininity have in today's post-feminist world of working women and sensitized men?
The casting decisions made by Scott and the performances of those chosen actors are crucial in embodying on-screen fascism and antifascism, Jewishness and Americanness, masculinity and femininity. Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. 'Belle de Jour' was produced in 2002/2003.
Performances of femininity are all about adding on - breasts, makeup, sparkly boas, frills, and flounces.
The expression did not actually imply homosexuality but was often used to imply femininity, though the term applied to both males and females. Dont You Forget About Me
I am an ancient daemon, and although I give the impression of being a model of youth and femininity, I have lived so many centuries I have begun to lose track.
She says: 'I wanted to keep my femininity and curvy figure. The Sun
This interest in lesbianism preserves the emphasis dominant discourses of femininity place on women's sexuality.
In my experience, Salafis, adherents of a very strict school of Islam, take a dim view of such displays of femininity.
The idea of aggressive machismo being challenged by lesbian-tinged femininity and losing to the softness of woman was interesting.
Action is the masculine force of narrative, femininity the topoi and telos of its trajectory.
The response among younger women to this dilemma, at least in the feverish imagination of the media, has been an abjuration of femininity.
The estrangement from prevailing discourses about the sexed mind created by Baillie's comedies therefore contributes to anxieties about what constituted masculinity and femininity, and how the culture might define male and female sexuality in medico-scientific terms. Feminist Utopianism and Female Sexuality in Joanna Baillies Comedies
Brown's link between femininity and commodification is succinctly stated as follows: Notes on 'The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire'
Not afraid to show their femininity but defying you to try and perceive it as weakness, we can think of no better role model for young girls (and boys, come to think of it).
In the typical mix of femininity and sporty styling, such accents emphasize a modern femininity.
Duncan added footnotes to ballet: extending the disciplinary boundaries of dance, overrunning the text of femininity and overstepping the marks made by pointe shoes.
I know she's good at getting press (partially because she's really good at marketing her fair-weather femininity), but it's obvious that she's bats.
Long hair was traditionally regarded as a sign of femininity.
The Wicca see the cauldron as a symbol of the Goddess, the manifested essence of femininity and fertility.
When tights look like this, pull on your heavy boots and wear with little shorts or a miniskirt for a touch of femininity. Times, Sunday Times
Their masculinity enhances the femininity of their wives and girlfriends. Times, Sunday Times

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