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
“Mean Girls” — which came out when I was in the third grade — overtly criticizes the phenomenon through satire, but it still links cattiness to femaleness.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2021
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
“Gender identity is your own sense or conviction of maleness or femaleness; and gender role is the cultural stereotype of what is masculine and feminine.”
From Salon ● Nov. 11, 2018
It was here, at a Lagos salon, that the different ranks of imperial femaleness were best understood.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
