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

“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

Douglass cut to the central fallacy of the white suffragist push — that African-American women could magically separate their blackness from their femaleness.

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2018

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