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

I leveraged anything in my power — my whiteness, my femaleness — to diffuse the scene.

From Salon • Nov. 6, 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

Molly eventually reframes her differences, as well as Katherine’s, as advantages, guiding the host to play up the facts of her femaleness, her age, and her white privilege.

From Slate • Jun. 5, 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