femaleness
Example Sentences
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There’s a plea in there — not for genderlessness, exactly, but for a freedom of narrative movement that femaleness, as conventionally written, impairs.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2023
This is a film about class and gender and femaleness and youth and unwanted attention that makes the smallest moments come alive with humanity.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 10, 2020
Her femaleness was not irrelevant to her larger claim, but part of her particular sensitivity.
From Slate ● May 13, 2019
I've done my best to shield them from the dysfunctional attitudes and anxiety that seem to be an expected part of performing the role of femaleness in our culture.
From Salon ● Mar. 30, 2019
Where before we Comanches had simply stared at her femaleness, we now glared at it She smiled back at us.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
