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

Can a ballot in the hand of woman, and dignity on her brow, more unsex her than do a scepter and a crown?

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

Shall she return To vex our souls, unsex our wives and daughters, And spoil our pictures as she did of old?

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 21, 1893 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir

Half an hour later the boys in the barn heard Mrs. Jones's voice calling,— The sort of boy who would unsex himself by looking at a baby.

From The Court of Boyville by Lowell, Orson