unsex

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Lady Macbeth has no such qualms when she’s summoning evil spirits to unsex her in “Macbeth.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2026

Going from unisex to unsex, The Lodge At Harvard Square, with 17 New England outlets, sells its women customers huge quantities of old-fashioned men's chino pants, whose seats rapidly become modishly baggy on distaff derri�res.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gentlemen, we ask nothing that would unsex ourselves.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Let no girl be deterred from steady and faithful work in the vain fear that she will unsex herself, and to a loving mother's needful anxieties let not this superfluous care be added.

From The Education of American Girls by Brackett, Anna C. (Anna Callender)

Beat purer, heart, and higher,    Till God unsex thee on the heavenly shore    Where unincarnate spirits purely aspire!

From Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 1 by Niecks, Frederick