Femininity (also called womanliness) is a set of attributes, behaviors, and roles generally associated with women and girls. Femininity can be understood...

what constitutes femininity or masculinity in any given species". Nonetheless, she asserts that "non-human animals do experience femininity and masculinity...

credits this to the Pachuca being interpreted as a symbol of "dissident femininity, female masculinity, and, in some instances, lesbian sexuality". The political...

Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity is a 2007 book by the gender theorist, biologist, and writer Julia Serano...

Effeminacy or male femininity is the embodiment of feminine traits in boys or men, particularly those considered untypical of men or masculinity. These...

Raewyn Connell (born 3 January 1944), usually cited as R. W. Connell, is an Australian sociologist and Professor Emerita at the University of Sydney, mainly...

Biblical womanhood is a movement within evangelical Christianity, particularly in the United States. It adopts a complementarian or patriarchal view of...

redesign the dress as they give her pointers on how to act around boys ("Femininity"). On the day of the party, a handsome young man (Peter Brown) appears...

repression. Gender-studies scholar Brenda R. Weber uses the term toxic femininity for a code of conformity and social pressure to rigid feminine gender...

with charm, politeness, sensitivity, tenderness, sweetness, childhood, femininity, and romance. A combination of pink and white is associated with innocence...

described attempting to acquire femininity as "bafflingly inconsistent at the same time [as]… minutely demanding… Femininity always demands more". And she...

mix of sweet, romantic, and sometimes playful elements and focuses on femininity through the use of clothes with lace, flounces, pastel colors, and bows...

woman. The term "womanhood" merely means the state of being a woman; "femininity" is used to refer to a set of typical female qualities associated with...

women are told through media that the way in which to maintain their femininity is to preserve their bodies. Advertisements profit off of sexually exploiting...

mannerisms, and appearance that are socially associated with gender, namely femininity or masculinity. Gender expression can also be defined as the external...

consisting of three sets of scales relating to masculinity, femininity, and masculinity-femininity. These scales had sets of adjectives commonly associated...

or avoid what it deemed the second wave's essentialist definitions of femininity, which, third-wave feminists argued, overemphasized the experiences of...

differing versions within the franchise. Girdle of femininity/masculinity The girdle of femininity/masculinity first appeared in the original 1979 Dungeon...

spirituality. When combined with pink, it is associated with eroticism, femininity, and seduction. The modern English word purple comes from the Old English...

psychoanalysis on femininity, Karen Horney of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute set out to challenge Freud's account of femininity. Rejecting Freud's...

or boisterous boy; a wild romping girl." Before the mid-19th century, femininity was equated with emotional fragility, physical vulnerability, hesitation...

The Oresteia (Ancient Greek: Ὀρέστεια) is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BCE, concerning the murder of Agamemnon...

often stipulate that tradwives embody what has been described as "toxic femininity" and internalized sexism. Critics claim this is a tactic used by male...

Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity. Seal Press. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-58005-154-5. Pfeffer, Carla (2009). Trans...

Studies of prenatal androgen exposure have provided some evidence that femininity and masculinity are partly biologically determined.: 8–9 : 153–154  Other...

these shows is often aimed at their femininity.: 1:1  My Little Pony has been perceived as an icon of femininity and "girlie-girls", particularly in the...

gender (that is, cultural ideals of socially acceptable masculinity and femininity) often have a negative effect on health. The World Health Organization...

is uniquely Japanese. While the term refers to the Japanese ideals of femininity, possessing grace and beauty, it also describes the Yamato nadeshiko's...

are several ways to express gender. An example is the old suffix -t for femininity. This suffix is no longer productive and is limited to certain patterns...

exist only as Platonic forms, and that Jews tend to embody the Platonic femininity. Whereas men are basically rational, women operate only at the level of...