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

When opposed, the protagonists of this position cry that their opponent wishes to unsex women; to repudiate motherhood; and see in all the natural development of the modern woman only a threat of decreased population.

From The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

Beat purer, heart! and higher,   Till God unsex thee on the spirit-shore,     To which, alone unsexing, purely aspire!

From Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. by Fuller, Margaret

George Eliot, as a true artist, sees what is faulty in the catastrophe, but she will not unsex her creation.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 by Various