How To Use Feminize In A Sentence
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Will his sex-change also feminize his personality, his attitudes, his spirit, and thus endanger my male friendship with him?
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Such a figure is literally and etymologically hysterical, as it is excessively feminized; it is also psychoanalytically hysterical.
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I posted a couple of days ago that Amy thought my room was too masculine, and had attempted to feminise it by pinning a coloured bag to my pinboard.
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He argues that professionalization emerged as an ideology used by women and men social workers to overcome their marginal status and gain respectability in a new and increasingly feminized job market in the 20th century.
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In general, ovarian estrogens feminize and demasculinize the developing hypothalamus and perhaps other brain areas known to control copulatory behaviors.
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Once, however, Maria has entered the von Trapp household, she actively humanises, harmonises, and feminises these new environs.
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Over time, this element of her story is lost, and she is increasingly configured as a highly feminized martyr.
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For this group of men who won't feminise their behaviour, Britain is becoming increasingly unwelcoming.
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This hairdo feminizes the man
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Where women need none, men need two kinds of hormones: androgens from the testes to prompt the Wolffian duct into development, and a second substance, called Mullerian inhibiting hormone, to suppress the Mullerian duct and defeminize the male fetus.
Homosexuality and Biology
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Women's participation was initially resisted on the grounds that women would be ‘harmed by competition or defeminised by training’.
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How ironic then that some women writers sneer at men who enter therapy's allegedly feminised milieu.
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Interestingly the practice among American surgeons has changed over the last few years - as it has in Australia, which is not to jump in too early with an operation which will feminise the baby.
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Often in popular culture, vulnerability is derided and feminized in boys of all races, and for young black boys, it's especially "clowned," or hyperbolized, for effect.
Jaden Smith's role in 'The Karate Kid' is a refreshing depiction of a black youth
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We need to feminise economics and take seriously the new politics of gender, time and care if we are to nurture families in the new economy.
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The appointment of a woman as secretary-general of the Department of Education feminises the Irish education system to an astonishing degree.
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The artist's linear arabesques reminded Greenberg of the feminized forms of Art Nouveau.
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Its as if the Cof E has to defeminise women until they resemble gay clergy!
The Guardian World News
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Most notably, she is not defeminized by her intelligence.
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The treatment feminised the past: it is veiled and mysterious, but might be available to us with the right chat-up line.
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At the studio, their name was feminized to the Marvelettes.
Is There a Letter in Your Bag For Me?
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Based on work done in other laboratories, Hayes' team suspects that atrazine feminizes the frogs by increasing production of an enzyme called aromatase, which converts testosterone to estrogen.
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Salvatore Giunta for saving lives during a battle in Afghanistan has "feminized" the award.
Rev. Candace Chellew-Hodge: Should Christians Be Pacifists?
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feminized language
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Efforts have been made to feminise its content and to cover issues such as environmental damage and domestic abuse.
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Atrazine is a potent endocrine disrupter that chemically castrates and feminizes amphibians and other wildlife.
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Certainly, there are enough of idiotic friends and corrupters of woman among the learned asses of the masculine sex, who advise woman to defeminize herself in this manner, and to imitate all the stupidities from which "man" in Europe, European "manliness," suffers, -- who would like to lower woman to "general culture," indeed even to newspaper reading and meddling with politics.
Beyond Good and Evil
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In the 1930s the Soviet retail workforce was increasingly feminized.
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The closest we came was “defeminize”, but I’ve never heard that used as an insult.
Is Manhood a Vessel? A minor disagreement with Hugo Schwyzer
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The poor working-class criminal takes on an exaggerated animal status as brute while the female offender is defeminised as ‘mad’.
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The male singer avoids being feminized principally through two linguistic devices.
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Finally, the narrator's descriptions of her ‘eye pits, [her] full set of teeth… [and] sour breath’ not only defeminize her but also dehumanize her.
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Like the infantilization of the foreigner, the passive, feminized Asian male is a stereotype.
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Whereas Amelia is presented as masculinized, Rhyme appears feminized.
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From the time they are young boys, the onslaught to effeminize, neuter, and rob males of their manhood begins in this culture and continues relentless upon them till the day they die.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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He demonstrated that atrazine is an endocrine disruptor that chemically castrates and feminizes male amphibians.
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Similarly, she explained, washing dishes did not necessarily effeminize a man, so long as he did his duty to the "tribe": hunting, providing, and protecting the household against enemies.
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583
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However, the role of the heroine still differs from that of the hero; the role does not defeminize women but gives them depth as characters.
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Fischer accused Mr. Obama of sullying the Medal of Honor and rendering it "feminized" by awarding it to Army Sgt. Salvatore Giunta.
Stephen Ducat: Holiday Shocker: George W. Bush Awarded the Medal of Honor
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To feminise it, it's all about accessories: the make-up and hair.
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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
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But she did not conform to the stereotype of the de-feminised learned woman.
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It's titled The War on Science Fiction and Marvin Minsky and it attempts to show how science fiction is becoming too "feminized": Science fiction is a very male form of fiction.
Is Science Fiction Becoming 'Feminized'?
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No, I was just trying to speak what I thought might be in Rosie ` s mind, not what ` s in my mind, but, you know, to draw a mustache on a woman is to defeminize her.
CNN Transcript May 25, 2007
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You are correct in pointing out that in the frat-tastic jockocracy that is today's GOP, it is standard operating procedure to feminize male candidates and defeminize female candidates.
Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Election Central Debate Roundup
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I interpret that as meaning that the individual who did this wanted to degrade her, defeminize her, show her that he was in total control.
CNN Transcript Mar 3, 2006
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Fischer accused Mr. Obama of sullying the Medal of Honor and rendering it "feminized" by awarding it to Army Sgt.
Stephen Ducat: Holiday Shocker: George W. Bush Awarded the Medal of Honor
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The importance of feminized images and the strongly masculinized language of leadership are not given much prominence.
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“Configurations of Feminine Reform: The Woman Writer and the Tradition of Dissent” (1994), Marlon Ross argues that for Romantic women writers the act of writing, and furthermore of writing on behalf of liberal reform initiatives, constituted a “double dissension” that could be mitigated by generic manipulation of two sorts: either disguise women's political speech in acceptably feminine modes like the conduct manual or feminize conventional political modes (94).
Notes on 'The Ruins of Empire: Nationalism, Art, and Empire in Hemans's Modern Greece'
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Often in popular culture, vulnerability is derided and feminized in boys of all races, and for young black boys, it's especially "clowned," or hyperbolized, for effect.
Jaden Smith's role in 'The Karate Kid' is a refreshing depiction of a black youth
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In contrast to the state-sanctioned violence of the first scene, the violence that dominates the rest of the play is feminized.
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What will happen if we feminise men so as to place safety above adventure, exploration and protection of the tribe?
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I don't think scifi is becoming "feminized" but I thing looking at the female vs. male characters in modern entertainment (not just scifi) could be interesting.
Is Science Fiction Becoming 'Feminized'?
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He had my head shaved and defeminised me.
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feminized frogs
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When she is defeminised, she has only the strength she gives herself.
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The Melbourne Writers Centre is dominated by women who will only tolerate strangely docile feminised men, who build towards an androgyny and collaborate in a general ‘dumbing down’ of the male.
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Margery seems defeminised, too: her experience of womanhood feels very much an outsider's view.
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The current fashion for natural light, organic forms and materials like beech perfectly complement the feminised curves of the plastic designs.
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So why, in our ultrafeminist, gynocratic age, did we first increase the use of feminized male names-- Patricia, Michelle, Nicole, Danielle-- and then go beyond that to outright giving boys' names to girls?
Archive 2005-03-20
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The chapter on Alcott follows two figures - the wounded soldier and the competent nurse - as they become symbols of feminized male and masculinized female.
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These developments are having marked negative impacts on women at work, for they are disproportionately represented in casual employment, with high rates of casualisation in feminised industries.
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One point that the AL makes that has been echoed through other blogs and listservs is that the term 'guybrarian' offensive: "Apparently the label librarian is actually a feminine noun, instead of librarianship just being a feminized profession.
Nicole Scherer: Librarians Rarely Make the News
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As I stand before the mirror looking at an image of a woman so defeminised by a black pinstripe suit, a familiar conversation came to mind.
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It is elaborate and disorderly and yet sober: it is not chintzy or kittenish or whimsical or ‘feminised.’
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Over time there came to be this kind of disjuncture between disco and funk and increasingly as disco became popular, record companies and managers pushed women [who made funk music] into disco, and disco became more feminized.
Politics
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The pesticides and herbicides from these farms and lawns effeminize male fish and other wildlife, which makes them less fertile.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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Eastern Europe's subordination is a feminized or festishized position: domestic slavery in the world order.
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On the other hand, there is evidence that some individual service sector occupations have been feminised with a replacement of male by female labour and some decline in male relative wage rates.
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Until then, most of the fish were very strongly feminized.
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That's why I was really happy to play a character who's not overly feminized.
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Professional careers do not of themselves defeminize women, otherwise the Church would not have raised political women to sainthood, as was the case with St. Elizabeth and St. Clotilde.
Communism and Woman
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May is defeminized when she occupies those positions and/or performs functions already performed by men.
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It was carried out with considerable brutality and impersonality, where the victims were publicly defeminised and destroyed.
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They consider themselves girls, but they consistently reject most of the attempts of the culture to feminize them.
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They are being attrited as an outcome of the newly feminized learning environment.
Males, Females, and College, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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The women's critique broke down views of virtue and vice that associated smoke with virtuous masculine industriousness and clean air with vicious feminized luxury.
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As the pandemic has become "feminized" advocates have made sustained efforts to gain visibility for women who are HIV positive or living with the effects of HIV.
Dr. Mabel Bianco: The Latest HIV/AIDS Breakthrough Will Empower Women Only Further
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They consider themselves girls, but they consistently reject most of the attempts of the culture to feminize them.
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Taking estrogen can feminize appearance by increasing breast size, shrinking testicles, rounding the hips and reducing facial and body hair.
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Cultural exiles in a world they had created, disgruntled Hawks spent their most triumphant decade not basking in their new uncontested power but grouching about how America had gone ‘soft,’ become feminized.
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In the example of the pill bug, Thierry Rigaud and his collaborators at the University of Poitiers in France have shown that males prefer not to mate with feminized males.
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I would feminise global politics and take to task those countries which refuse to co-operate with treaties such as the Kyoto Agreement.
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From a hill-like rise at left to the pyramidal structure and round-lipped concavity on the right, the work does so by emphasizing this Arizona as a feminized site.
