"She loves femininity and the trappings of femininity and the performance of femininity," Grace Dunham said.
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I see my butchness as one kind of femininity on a three-dimensional spectrum of femininity.
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"I really think there's this reckoning happening about who owns femininity now, and who owns Black femininity, and who owns the capital in the economy that birthed out of Black femininity," he contends.
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And how her femininity — all of the women [in the film] — their femininity coincides so seamlessly with their ferocity.
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I think of femininity that way, because femininity is very powerful, but sometimes it's misunderstood and seen as weak.
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For men to do anything with femininity, to use femininity as a palette, it's basically an act of treason in our culture.
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My femininity isn't in my breasts or the shape or size of my body: My femininity is in every ounce of my being.
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It's not simply saying "I don't want to fuck you"; it's passing on a message that femininity is not to be accepted, that femininity is wrong.
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Feminine atmospherics — femininity itself — confounds, annoys, exasperates us.
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Writing with a male pseudonym and wearing breeches, Sand's transgression was not a refutation of her femininity but stemmed from a desire to protect that femininity from the public eye.
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" The brand's focus is on the "power of femininity.
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Masculinity in our culture is aspirational, while femininity is denigrated, and as a result, it's generally more accepted for girls to aspire toward masculinity than it is for boys to aspire toward femininity.
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Her entire life, she knew she had an inner femininity.
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To me femininity is an expression of how you feel.
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There's just something about her that exudes femininity and strength.
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She doesn't fit into that conventional box of femininity either.
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And so I guess I learned about femininity through you.
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A film that celebrates strength and femininity, vigour and empathy.
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These are reinforcing the old stereotypes of masculinity and femininity.
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The world, he's essentially saying, needs an antidote to femininity.
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Nicole is the perfect example of someone with regal femininity.
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My walk, my movement through space — punctuated with sonic femininity.
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I was so alive with my purpose and my femininity.
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Fabric, like the softness of femininity, is universal and powerful.
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I aspire to have their power, beauty, sensuality, and femininity.
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Still, both are women who challenge expectations of onscreen femininity.
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The Passion of New Eve deconstructs masculinity and femininity in
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"You can show masculinity, you can show femininity," he said.
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On the contrary, it means reappropriating the body and femininity.
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She rejects the concept that there is no toxic femininity.
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Just me and her, I could let my femininity fly.
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Women candidates face impossible standards of femininity and double binds.
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Women are expected to perform femininity and feminism at once.
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Clinton and Ms. May wear theirs as badges of femininity.
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But rejection of femininity is not a rejection of beauty.
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She redefines beauty and the idea of elegance and femininity.
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" Nocchi: "The definition of femininity evolves every year for us.
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I also felt her womanness, her femininity, as very powerful.
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Challenges to core understandings of masculinity — and femininity — are inescapable.
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Or maybe they suggest serialization and a confining, consumerist femininity.
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I think Paula Modersohn-Becker, who had a marvelous show in France recently … I mean, she was attempting to sort of unite Cezanne with, not feminism, femininity, with what she thought of as earthy femininity.
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Simply put, heels remain an influential, but problematic, symbol of femininity.
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Gillibrand is flipping the script, positioning this femininity as a strength.
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"Femininity is [our] inspirational muse," the company stated on their website.
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Femininity meant softness, and softness, in sports, meant you were benched.
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It's about recharging her inner femininity — and connecting with her fans.
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"But I never really felt comfortable performing femininity 100%," Smith said.
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Fitting the ideals of femininity makes you acceptable in Wind Gap.
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Being primarily sexually, aesthetically, and/or romantically attracted to femininity. Polyamorous
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"This collection is inspired by femininity and strength," Williams told PEOPLE.
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When we see breasts, we don't think of beauty and femininity.
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I also love modeling as an outlet for expressing my femininity.
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And for her supporters, she embodies that traditional idea of femininity.
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Excellences & Perfections is supposed to be a criticism of constructed femininity.
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Witches have long been considered women transgressing the parameters of femininity.
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"This collection is inspired by femininity and strength," Williams tells PEOPLE.
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The femininity and delicacy of her work give her global appeal.
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Part of it was the femininity in masculinity and vice versa.
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And how much we can share truth about masculinity and femininity.
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Lowood is where Jane learns to perform meekness, restraint, modest femininity.
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We need to stop maligning femininity, in both girls and boys.
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Was I, perhaps, overwhelmed by the boundless femininity that surrounded me?
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Dress codes tend to perpetuate rigid ideas about masculinity and femininity.
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There was femininity, gloried in and defined multiple ways via dress.
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Have you felt pressured to conform to certain norms of femininity?
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For she may turn out to be the queen of femininity.
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At Prada and Moschino, the clichés of femininity are being weaponized.
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At times, as in bromances, they outsource traditional femininity to men.
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The show touches on themes of race, gender, femininity, and subversion.
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Here's what her look signals about Gen Z and shifting femininity.
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It felt like a real loss of control and my femininity.
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The implication is that she is using femininity to control men.
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She had fluent femininity, the passive grace of a native speaker.
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That said, some of the criticisms people have of Swift relate to the privileges of whiteness, because much of the femininity she embodies is tied to a historical association among femininity, beauty and white Eurocentric appearances.
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There's femininity inside of it, but there's also a strength to it.
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Toronto's photography examines femininity as a mask, something put on or discarded.
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Her tracks are simultaneously sultry and damning, tackling desire, femininity, and control.
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Libra is ruled by Venus, the planet of femininity, art, and romance.
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Does she construct her femininity through being an object of male desire?
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In 2018, the earlier Barbie models look like oppressive versions of femininity.
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This may say more about Jenner's notions of femininity than about sexuality.
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It can pull long hair away from femininity without going into masculinity.
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Why weren't these bros directing their femininity policing and insults toward them?
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I tried to correct my femininity, to hide it from other people.
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Nor did they disguise their work in sentimental, Victorian versions of femininity.
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So I spent a lot of time trying to strangle my femininity.
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""Because I'm in a man's field, I used to downplay my femininity.
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In our culture, pregnancy is often seen as the epitome of femininity.
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"That plays into all the beautiful femininity that we're seeing," she added.
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Yet, in 1970, Bowie's brazen femininity was a bold and risky move.
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It brings out my femininity the most out of anything I do.
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Chiuri said she hoped Dior could speak to modern women and femininity.
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It seamlessly balances the spiritual nature of the event alongside Alejandra's femininity.
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They're morally gray in ways that challenge our traditional portrayals of femininity.
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"Menstrual blood is peculiar, it represents the essence of femininity," she writes.
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Entwining femininity and violence, it inverts and reflects upon misogyny and sex.
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The latest crop of presidential wives, observers say, are models of femininity.
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She's the one holding the laces, the one constructing her own femininity.
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"It's associated with frivolity, weakness, immorality, femininity so therefore denigrated," he says.
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Yeah. At Miss International Queen they're still looking for, you know, femininity.
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Femme is intentional; it's a way of simultaneously challenging and celebrating femininity.
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"They embraced their femininity while being sporty and independent, too," she says.
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Braiding masculinity and femininity, her arms slowly swirl around her undulating torso.
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Where exactly did this system get its ideas of masculinity and femininity?
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And she wants to change the parameters and the definition of femininity.
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There's the identity of femininity and what kind of woman you are.
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I was ready to say goodbye to a certain performance of femininity.
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Jessica Hembree: I've had nicknames that were pejorative and reference my femininity.
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It didn't take that much estrogen to shift androgyny toward traditional femininity.
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She stood for a very specific form of GenX femininity, confession, rage.
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Guo's own taste for martial splendor complements her penchant for ornamental femininity.
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There is conventional femininity and conventional masculinity, and it's difficult to capture.
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Nevertheless, the artist almost gleefully explores the floridness often identified with femininity.
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I think with drag queens, people find it slightly easier that a man putting on femininity and all the aesthetic things associated with that can be funny, because people assume femininity is something you 'put on' and 'take off.
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They see the brand as a celebration of motherhood, sisterhood and modern femininity.
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Williams previously told PEOPLE that her line is inspired by femininity and strength.
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On race day, though, Switzer says she wasn't attempting to hide her femininity.
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Iris, galbanum, vanilla bourbon, and tonka bean give the scent its intoxicating femininity.
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The need to fit a stereotypical binary model of femininity was utterly dispiriting.
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We have, after all, been historically shamed for expressing vulnerability, femininity, and sexuality.
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Here, Beyoncé is giving those two obvious symbols of femininity a modern twist.
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"I admired them for rebelling against mainstream gender and femininity norms," she recalls.
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Af Klint believed that blue represented femininity, while pink and yellow represented masculinity.
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Femininity isn't the opposite of masculinity—it isn't a reaction against something else.
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She wanted to embrace femininity and just be free and set herself free.
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If femininity is performance, Miss Meatface is a gaudy, shocking vaudeville of contrasts.
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Jessica Cochrane is an artist from Canberra who plays with representations of femininity.
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My film is about female empowerment—girls and femininity in a grimy world.
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As a viewer, how does one reconcile these polarized versions of Indian femininity?
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Among all the celebrities are a bunch of "perfect models of femininity"; i.e.
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I've been taught not to embrace my femininity because it attracts negative attention.
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And it flowed with the scene, once again, not compromising ferocity for femininity.
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Some critique indirectly, as in, say, the femininity-satirizing works of Sarah Lucas.
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Femininity was there too, with striped blouses, damasqued fabrics and kitten-heeled shoes.
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"For me, Lanvin is femininity," she said a few weeks before the show.
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"I'd never want to be flippant about femininity and fairy tales," she said.
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The women of K-pop are typically depicted as traditional versions of femininity.
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As part of that, I needed to explore my femininity and female identity.
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I had everybody create a ritual from a place of deep, unfiltered femininity.
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When Semenya won the 800 meter race in 2009, competitors questioned her femininity.
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Notions about masculinity and femininity are relative, of course, and rooted in culture.
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The answer, I think, has something to do with lingering ideas about femininity.
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And not pink, because pink is too common when it comes to femininity.
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"Drugs allowed men and boys to discover their beauty and femininity," he said.
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It's that the women on these shows reject social norms about "respectable" femininity.
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Femininity is presumably a defining issue when it comes to this particular sector.
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And it finally dawned on me: Doing dishes isn't about masculinity or femininity.
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I try to create a balance of masculinity and femininity in my clothes.
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Her proud femininity, can-do assurance and sexiness say all things are possible.
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Yes, she has to sacrifice some essential femininity, rejecting wifely and maternal instincts.
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"When people hear 'femininity,' they think it's all soft and girlie," she said.
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"We see ... slim waistlines, we see a lot of femininity," he told Reuters.
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It's the tender femininity of those lips that brings the horror into focus.
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It has long been a platform for men to feel and express femininity.
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The outfits signaled to others, and to herself, the femininity she felt inside.
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Stieglitz turned O'Keeffe's work into cliché about femininity as she was making it.
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In those first failed experiments with femininity, JAP style offered an accessible script.
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"I'm confident in my femininity enough to know that I can come on this mat and be strong and be powerful and really still be goal-oriented and not have it disrespect or take away from my femininity," she said.
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Power dressing used to mean trying to dress like a man, hiding your femininity.
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At the heart of Ferrell's impression, however unintentional, is a mockery of her femininity.
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The album's title is uniquely feminine as well, though more evocative of "bad" femininity.
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Femininity was rigid, any attempt to get out of the cage led to ridicule.
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Not just the heterosexual community, but the gay community,where everyone's afraid of femininity.
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How long would I erase my femininity just because the world asked me to?
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Society has "a very fixed idea of masculinity and femininity", as Ms Ditum says.
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And in the women themselves, could we just reflect a fuller breadth of femininity?
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For years, big jewelry and the color pink have been associated with dainty femininity.
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As a prima ballerina, she's been trained to defer to traditional expectations of femininity.
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We can still keep that femininity and wear four-inch heels going to work.
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There is great power in numbers, just as there is great power in femininity.
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It eased some anxiety that any femininity I exhibited would be met with rejection.
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Everybody needs to do the leg work if we truly want to 'normalize' femininity.
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" This is bad, she writes, because it shows "a very narrow representation of femininity.
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It is fine that Wright doesn't want to participate in this type of femininity.
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Meanwhile, "femininity" does not translate to being passive-aggressive (as Cancers are often characterized).
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In this new golden age of antiheroines, femininity is neither about goodness or weakness.
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Can you tell me about how you play with ideas of masculinity and femininity?
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It's a true collage of styles celebrating femininity with a certain cheeky sex appeal.
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The advertisements do depict femininity, albeit not in the context of high-performance running.
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It's perfectly acceptable for a powerful woman to embrace and show off her femininity.
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Women have been dealing with femininity as performance forever, for at least 300 years.
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"Yes, it strays from the typical ideal of femininity," she says of her look.
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But it is also at the center of debates about gender, masculinity and femininity.
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It's a collection of poetry and prose dealing with love, loss, femininity, and survival.
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They took femininity and used it to communicate every huge, negative, destructive emotion possible.
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CEYENNE DOROSHOW: I couldn't hide femininity like some people could, or wish they could.
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When we are hurt, we are denied our humanity; when we succeed, our femininity.
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She says she cannot define her femininity in contrast to what she is not.
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Forced into Femininity is the moniker of the Chicagoan multimedia artist Jill Lloyd Flanagan.
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To the contrary, she views her facial hair as another facet of her femininity.
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I'm focused on femininity and what it means to have a body that screams.
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One's eyes do not immediately focus upon this centralized figure of implacable femininity, however.
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Opening night performances include Forced into Femininity (Chicago), Miss Meex, and Death Became Her.
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Phyllis was known for her femininity in addition to her prowess in the ring.
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After years of suppressing your femininity, the desire to celebrate it can be powerful.
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As a feminine-presenting person, my femininity has either been mocked or highly sexualized.
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But this study, published last month, focuses on the association of femininity with greenness.
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I love how it challenges their femininity and the social constructs they live in.
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They were also gorgeous, exotic and embraced femininity in a way that entranced me.
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The suggestion is that it is a feminist act to flaunt your own femininity.
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Am I just adverse to other women owning their femininity through bubbly pink packaging?
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Part of how American boys learn to define masculinity is as adversarial toward femininity.
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The association with femininity makes images of men wearing hosiery all the more transgressive.
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"It feels like an empowered animal femininity," said Christiana Axelsen, who is playing Venus.
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I was surprised by the way she confronted being ill without losing her femininity.
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Experts claimed for years that distance running was damaging to women's health and femininity.
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We have always ebbed and flowed with expressions and rejections of masculinity and femininity.
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As long as vulnerability and softness are the basis for acceptable femininity (and acceptable femininity is a requirement for a woman's life to have value), women who are perpetually framed because of their race as supernaturally indestructible will not be viewed with regard.
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But it also felt like Clinton's convention was pushing for the value of femininity itself.
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Ivanka Trump is the other side of the coin, projecting the idealized femininity of 2016.
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Read these stories next: Trolls Are Calling The YouTube Shooting An Act Of "Toxic Femininity".
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Can you just enjoy femininity as a man and appreciate it first before getting anywhere?
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Already she was longing to get this over with, unsettled by the clutter and femininity.
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But, even before that experience, I have always felt like my femininity was never assumed.
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Black people live in this world with enough stereotypical presumptions about our masculinity and femininity.
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Her personal style could be described as "utilitarian-tough-chic" with a splash of femininity.
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She's got that sort of air-and-water delicate femininity when you first meet her.
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Regardless of the orientation of the perpetrator, it is clearly femininity that is under attack.
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So I embraced the extreme opposite, which was this over-the-top, hyper-sexualized femininity.
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This very demonization of femininity is what makes a term like "tramp stamp" so harmful.
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These give some women a sense of empowerment and femininity (not to mention extra height).
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That's because many people who hear it immediately associate the speaker with femininity and homosexuality.
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"I think women these days have forgotten the importance of femininity in relationships," Jody explains.
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Kim Kardashian especially is a challenge for hosts because she's an emblem of performative femininity.
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"We wanted to express a tougher femininity this season," Kane said in a press release.
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Despite this traditional association, Susun extensively and ebulliently stressed that femininity is a cultural construct.
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But as far as spots and femininity go, all manifestations are fair game in 2017.
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It also includes family roles, romantic desires, cultural expectations and ideas of masculinity and femininity.
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Anna's breasts are where she carries her femininity, because nothing else about her is feminine.
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She also added the Venus symbol, which is used to represent femininity and women's empowerment.
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Ejiro Amos Tafiri Launched in 2010, Ejiro's self-named brand is popular for embracing femininity.
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She doesn't fits into the exact type of femininity we're conditioned to be comfortable with.
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She signs up, joining a sorority that initiates her into a surprisingly, satisfyingly complex femininity.
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Nettles was gorgeous — worthy of her femininity, her sexiness, and her dignity — like anyone else.
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But femininity is also intensity when it comes from four fine hard-rocking ladies—L7.
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You are always failing your femininity in a different way, so it's a moving target.
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In a way, aren't you reproducing common stereotypes about femininity and masculinity by doing this?
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We started playing around with different mixed looks where both masculinity and femininity were present.
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Above all, fashion's androgynous moment actually makes me feel more in touch with my femininity.
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The figure's formlessness suggests the ability to remold our classic conceptions of femininity and beauty.
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It's a smart touch, taking these artifacts of stereotypical femininity and turning them into weapons.
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Women do not own femininity and straight men could sure use a dab of it.
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It fits well and the tie cuffs add some femininity to an otherwise simple silhouette.
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"Masculinity and femininity don't make sense in a compost heap," one witch wrote in 2010.
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The subject of feminism used to be femininity, the reality of women, advice for women.
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MIB: Yes, the entire language around issues of masculinity (and, perhaps, femininity) needs to change.
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If so, do you say no, because she traditionally represents the worst of stereotypical femininity?
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If you confidently claim your gentleness and sweetness and femininity, people may actually be impressed.
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Let's start with a basic understanding that femininity is a subject worth thinking about — finally.
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Most ostensibly, Nunes' differs from the three previous champions in nationality, femininity, and sexual orientation.
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These costume appurtenances are essential devices in the toolkit used to wield and perform femininity.
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She was interested, particularly, in the way advertising constructs femininity as glossy, mysterious and sexy.
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"What I really loved was the absolute celebration of the femininity and empowerment," he said.
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"Fashion has a creativity that is more associated with femininity than masculinity," Mr. Westmoreland said.
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"They have the femininity automatically by being women, so they're considered caring," Professor McDermott said.
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Also notable are the collection's ungendered silhouettes, a departure from Eileen Fisher's traditional loose femininity.
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Franklin struggled with her weight for decades as she defied white, male notions of femininity.
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And if an overdose of femininity is our new poison, Mr. Peterson knows the cure.
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She'd learned to display her femininity and charm, and to hint at them through concealment.
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It's a performance of femininity that's exaggerated without being mocking, equal parts affected and affectionate.
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If only someone here were joking or had an idea about the construction of femininity.
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Female athletes have been boxed in by traditional ideas of femininity for over a century.
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This "masculine" songwriting is at odds with the overt femininity presented in the record's visuals.
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So conceptually, when we thought about the show — myself, Tina Fey, and the show runners — it was important for us that I project the purest form of myself, without ever losing touch with my femininity and the aspects of my femininity that make me, me.
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In order to be desirable in pop, men generally need to display a certain amount of femininity in their looks (lovely hair, clean-shaven)—but must also have plausible deniability of that femininity (which is where having a playboy public persona comes in handy).
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The exhibition features 26 artists from all over Europe and the Americas, each one exploring the subject of "New Femininity," which looks to create a new vision of what femininity is today (excluding the constrictive stereotypes women have fought so hard to be released from).
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Let's hope Unicode's ESC votes to further diversify the way femininity is portrayed via our keyboards.
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I realized that being strong and aggressive did not take away from or diminish my femininity.
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Reps of the brand say it's meant embody the "notes of a woman" and modern femininity.
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I feel like Chanel uplifts strong, feminine figures without adhering to a certain type of femininity.
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"Not to sound glib, but she's sort of increasing her, if you will, femininity," he said.
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Now you're back in the U.S. How has your view of femininity changed, if at all?
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The unruly woman breaks the rules of femininity, and she makes us love her for it.
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At moniquemeloche, Genevieve Gaignard's artworks are marked with a nostalgic brand of Black femininity and prestige.
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Drugs temporarily block Charlotte's compunction, decades in the making, to perform perfect femininity at all times.
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I want to give women the means to express themselves and to delight in their femininity.
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Sojourner Truth didn't have a say in the way her black femininity was coded in America.
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Having one's femininity questioned and then disregarded is an experience Sojourner Truth knew all too well.
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Her work utilizes food, families, and femininity to tell those stories, and turn them into artwork.
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Her femininity is embedded in the elegance of arcing lines, and the knitted, halting, tentative rhythms.
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And everything about this scent, from the concept to the packaging, embraces the power of femininity.
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The products have no age limit; they're universally adored due to their quality, femininity, and flair.
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Even Cardi B, one of the buzziest rap stars of the moment, proudly flaunts her femininity.
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My unbridled femininity meant that I was put on trial at the dinner table almost nightly.
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Pair It With Trousers The classic wrap dress is widely synonymous with traditional notions of femininity.
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For me, this has had an effect on our way, as a society, of perceiving femininity.
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Oshun, the owner of beauty, femininity, love, and sensuality was syncretized with the Lady of Charity.
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These performances of gender, which often include "stylized femininity," are put on display at local balls.
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My gender expression is feminine, especially appearance-wise, but I don't identify with femininity too much.
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The artist's 45-foot-tall inflatable sculpture at Rockefeller Center aggrandizes an outmoded model of femininity.
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Koons's ballerina promotes a kind of stereotypical model of femininity that we should be moving past.
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For the first time, Refn is exploring that opacity through exaggerated femininity instead of fetishized masculinity.
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The demonization of femininity ties into misogyny—that anything associated with the "female" is somehow lesser.
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I began taking hormones and as my body began to develop explored mainstream ideas of femininity.
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To an outside observer, it may have seemed as if she were winking at traditional femininity.
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As society continues to fracture into ultra-specific subcultures, one shape will no longer define femininity.
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As a kid, I couldn't conceal my femininity, so my peers threatened, hurt, and harassed me.
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Was it a response to cultural messages around femininity, a subliminal wishing away of physical desire?
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Stidham's parents supplemented their income and spread their beliefs by hosting "femininity forums" around Los Angeles.
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Effie's exaggerated femininity is camp, and it is at first the enemy of the workers' movement.
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Lyonne makes a perfect collaborator for Headland, an underestimated director with a specialty in toxic femininity.
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Since Guess makes sexy women's jeans, I think it's great that it's a symbol of femininity.
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And I think right now is kind of reckoning of like, OK, what is Black femininity?
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Taintor takes mass market representations of femininity and inserts into them an ironic, knowing female voice.
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And it's this kind of abject version of femininity that makes it hard to look away.
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"Starting sex work made me truly understand my femininity and my power in that," Nova said.
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Masculinity and femininity also affect first impressions, so you have to be aware of gender stereotypes.
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"The collection is a celebration of color, travel, vitality, and femininity," Hoffman said in a statement.
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To me, she is drag, she is theatricality, she is performing this Lolita image of femininity.
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Related: Artist Uses Watercolors to Spotlight Black Femininity Can The "Art Hoe" Movement Change Contemporary Art?
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I struggled to affirm your femininity because I was acting from a place of personal shame.
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The Mujercitos were assigned masculine gender at birth but they identify with different versions of femininity.
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As a young boy, my femininity was an open secret; understood by everyone, discussed by none.
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Do you love yourself enough to embrace the fullness of your gender identity—femininity and all?
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A giddy celebration of its own artifice of femininity, the film also deconstructs the espionage genre.
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Playing photographically with femininity, commodity, and bodily perception, Heather Bennett reveals a sly sense of humor.
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I really respect her — just her commitment to femininity, and her strong commitment to her ideas.
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GENDER NONCONFORMING, OR G.N.C. One who expresses gender outside traditional norms associated with masculinity or femininity.
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Ms. Guthrie counters her physicians' objectionable suppositions about femininity while encountering the terrible wrongs they inflict.
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Part of it relates to a larger disdain toward things associated with the feminine and femininity.
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Here, Mr. Morris highlights his dancers' femininity and sisterhood by flaunting their strength, not their daintiness.
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The allure still holds for some who saw it as a celebration of femininity and beauty.
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"I thought this would help me regain my femininity," the 2000-year-old told BuzzFeed News.
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She doesn't use terminology like that with me, expressing any sort of femininity in any way.
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It's a stunning decline for a brand that once defined femininity for millions of American women.
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"She stood for a very specific form of GenX femininity, confession, rage," tweeted journalist Erin Blakemore.
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Framed Print Black "Roux" by Sofia Bonati Here's another dose of fierce femininity by Sofia Bonati.
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They resist straitjackets that police boundaries of love, masculinity and femininity within black and gay communities.
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She also had a radical intuition about femininity: it becomes nightmarish when its artifice feels inescapable.
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It's not too romantic, however it definitely has a lot of sensual femininity at its core.
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And in the process, she's queering our understanding of the poles of Hollywood masculinity and femininity.
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One interviewee, an artist, comments on cats' freedom to publicly embody femininity, while she must conceal hers.
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"For me, Woman captures the very essence of modern femininity," said Ralph Lauren in the press release.
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" When Williams launched the line in May, she said the pieces were "inspired by femininity and strength.
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Feminists debate whether drag denigrates women or empowers them by revealing femininity as a socially constructed ruse.
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Disturbingly enough, Mr. Marsh seems to relish his daughter's burgeoning femininity as much as her peers do.
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In honoring my femininity, I was able to be a better leader, and influence to greater impact.
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"Don't be afraid to leverage your gift of femininity — if you know what I mean," she said.
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It's a fitting icon for Queen Bey to include in her portraits, which exude strength and femininity.
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For as long as we've known Yael on Degrassi: Next Class, they have seemed uncomfortable with femininity.
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When it comes to representation, we're still paying the price today for those antiquated views about femininity.
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However, like the luxury product advertisements that inspired it, the ballet presents a commoditised version of femininity.
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For example, pink is often used to convey sweetness or femininity, while red is utilized for violence.
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"I carry with me from my male upbringing a sense that femininity is forbidden," she tells me.
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The implicit suggestion is that this type of femininity is embarrassing and antithetical to good, serious science.
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They are more than love stories, they are musings on heteronormativity, Black masculinity and femininity, family, etc.
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And if that's the case, these Olympics have likely challenged your notions about femininity and empowerment everywhere.
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She did it by standing up and daring to be a whole woman who embraces her femininity.
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It is so inclusive and puts feminism and femininity and female empowerment on such a broad spectrum.
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This year, I think Abbi is embracing her cooler femininity with more color combinations and artistic flair.
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Subconsciously, I started to conform with my peers, hiding my femininity and what came naturally to me.
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This stems from the fact that gendered clothing relies on the rigid constructs of masculinity and femininity.
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It takes back control, as if to challenge the notion of power and femininity being mutually exclusive.
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Aucoin's unabashed femininity may have scared my tween self, but I sure as shit am unafraid now.
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What makes France different, though, is a tolerance of sexual entitlement, mixed with complex codes about femininity.
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As a supermodel, she pioneered an androgynous look that challenged gender roles and the definition of femininity.
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Mary Beth Edelson and Lynda Benglis also challenge patriarchal constructs of femininity and sex with compelling imagery.
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A lost face might disturb a certain desire for individuality, but headlessness morbidly augments these sculptures' femininity.
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"For women, demonstrating femininity ... is the name of the game when choosing what to wear," Sinelschikova wrote.
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Even rarer still, it's a femininity presented through the prism of women writers, directors, and cast members.
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Conforming to a masculine ideal of femininity, or experimenting with her own perception of self and sexuality?
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Femininity isn't really an issue for the artists, who subsumed it at the points of their departure.
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The very specific, imperfect femininity — the sense of one woman's struggle to make art — that's my bailiwick.
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Right now we clearly have a hierarchy between masculinity and femininity, wherein masculinity is more highly valued.
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"Both men and women are often attracted to culturally idealized embodiments of masculinity and femininity," he said.
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My femininity isn't something you can give me because it's not something that can be taken away.
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In their first published book, Femme in Public, Alok explores what femininity means in our society today.
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But I do think that all men possess femininity within them, just as all women possess masculinity.
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As a woman, I feel like my femininity is constantly being defined by the world around me.
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On the one hand, allowing girls to revel in their physicality and femininity is a good thing.
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For me, it was an opportunity to exaggerate volumes and arrive at an extreme expression of femininity.
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Public schools were told to offer physical education for girls, which clerics had argued threatened their femininity.
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It is this new definition of femininity through this spontaneous purity that is far away in time.
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Across the way, Joiri Minaya, presented by Casa Quien, does something similar with ideas of Dominican femininity.
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Ideas about masculinity and femininity matter in international politics, in national security and in nuclear strategic thinking.
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Ideas about masculinity and femininity already distort the ways we think about international politics and national security.
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Her earrings, which reflected the light, are, Ms. Makki said, traditional wedding jewelry meant to symbolize femininity.
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"Mentors of mine were under a big pressure to minimize their femininity to make it," she said.
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Ms. Douglas' artwork, on display in the gallery, explores the "essence of femininity" through textiles and photography.
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She should be able to lean in to her femininity without being painted in a frivolous light.
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Credit...Timothy A. Clary/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Victoria's Secret defined femininity for millions of women.
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At times this involves female characters testing, gingerly if fleetingly, the limits of that construct called femininity.
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Together, we became like a force of nature, dominating every space we entered with flurries of femininity.
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" Snake"There's been lots of mythology that equates femininity with snake-like behavior in a negative way.
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She didn't want to lip-synch anymore, and wondered whether drag was misogynist, since it lampoons femininity.
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"It's a portrayal of black femininity that's not compromised—the direct stare, the skin color," Drew said.
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We are thrilled when we get to see these unattainable images of wealth and femininity torn down.
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The Black woman emerges from the shadows, sans flowers, shapely and peerless, illustrating Colescott's fascination with femininity.
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Maybe it's time to look to places like "RuPaul's Drag Race" for traditional femininity played as spectacle.
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They are pictures of white femininity, of the idealized victim revered by Hollywood and the morning news.
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And any attempt to make femininity trivial or unimportant is an attempt to take away my power.
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Most people who denigrate women politicians based on a lack of traditional femininity dance around the truth.
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It is a celebration of femininity in relationship to masculinity, of unearthing layers of shadow and sexuality.
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This is not to say that the film denies her femininity or ignores the ramifications of such.
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This piece prodded my relationship with femininity in an unexpected way: I can't help but associate long, leopard print coats with a kind of demure and delicate femininity that feels unattainable to me as a queer woman who falls somewhere in the middle of the gender presentation spectrum.
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Take a look at our top picks ahead, and see why femininity and performance are not mutually exclusive.
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The color pink symbolized the virtuous and blameless aspects of breast cancer and the femininity the disease threatened.
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A "mean girl" implies a "nice" protagonist, the kind of woman who fits into patriarchal conceptions of femininity.
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One way of doing so could be playing up the brand's femininity, while promoting a sense of individualism.
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You know, some people are cool with their kids' ideas about femininity and girlhood being shaped by Disney.
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According to Kern, the one unifying factor among her subjects was an admiration for and fascination with femininity.
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But so much of athleisure and wellness culture feels like a reversion to that earlier iteration of femininity.
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I was always at the edge of popularity, barely holding on, and my femininity was under constant surveillance.
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According to Begin, guys need to accept their femininity—they just need to own their masculinity as well.
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Choosing to be a feminist has nothing to do with your femininity—or, for that matter, your masculinity.
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Freya is presented as an archetype of femininity that exists outside of male-dominion―the classic isolated witch.
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Both works explore terror and pleasure through a combination of repetition and artifice to scramble codes of femininity.
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But in terms of physical sexual matters, I am generally oriented toward individuals on the spectrum of femininity.
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And any hint of gay femininity or gender dissidence is generally erased, coded, or relegated to minor characters.
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In the 1960s, some of the trappings of femininity — including bras — became subject to scrutiny by feminist activists.
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She also understands that my femininity was not a threat to her, and our parental roles remain complementary.
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This song is about me taking back my power, embracing my femininity and trusting my own intuition instead.
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The women villains on this list all transgress boundaries of femininity in often abhorrent, and always interesting, ways.
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For the last 50 years, women have been asked to reject or mask their femininity in the workplace.
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Each artwork featured in Neon Love exhibits this aesthetic but also individually explores femininity, sexuality, and female beauty.
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It enables me to be larger than life, and for others to see that femininity should be celebrated.
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Women not only make fewer headlines, but are often expected to stay within a narrow definition of femininity.
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I don't think anybody exactly knows how these women were able to conceal their femininity for so long.
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Searching for models of femininity, Tinsley found alignment with one of her idols, who was raised in Houston.
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We, of the optic white shoe movement, could care less about stains, traditions, practicality, classic femininity...or, gah!
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Perhaps most remarkably, Sansa manages to survive and work to regain her family's power without weaponizing her femininity.
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Gender-Nonconforming (GNC) describes some people whose gender expression is different from conventional expectations of masculinity and femininity.
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I want to see all of these women celebrate their femininity and their right to be treated equally.
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The installation incorporates mass-produced objects that are directly related to femininity or strictly marketed towards female use.
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As I took a cab into Havana, everywhere I looked, there were women and girls flaunting their femininity.
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Together they constitute a commentary on the way perceived notions about white femininity have curtailed black liberation efforts.
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I observe my form as a naked canvas, stripped away of society's ideas about what femininity should be.
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"Potion-making and poisons have a long and fascinating history of being associated with femininity," he told me.
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"I think they fit well with the Trump American version of what's considered good femininity," Wissinger told me.
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For men a healthy head of hair connotes vigor and virility; for women it represents femininity and beauty.
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By then, the songs' exploration of femininity and creative power held echoes of environmentalism, thinking about Mother Earth.
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Why do you think things that are associated with femininity, like fashion and beauty, are not taken seriously?
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The last of those with showings this weekend is "Caricature of She," which dissects femininity through stylized vamping.
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Finding femininity in my natural features diminishes my dysphoria and makes me feel a strong sense of pride.
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And in these positions, they find not only acceptance of homosexuality and femininity, but economic and spiritual power.
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Cuteness represents so many things that have been undermined and undervalued for so long: femininity, childishness, being ourselves.
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"Just as most men are attracted to femininity, or softness, most women are attracted to masculinity," Venker wrote.
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We want to create an alternative to that, where femininity and compassion and punk are not mutually exclusive.
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It feels like some people's relationship to gender non-conforming femininity is one of both desire and distance.
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And since Asian women are associated with high levels of femininity, we therefore strengthened the shield even more.
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The images clearly reflect some sort of performed femininity intertwined with a mythological fantasy that feels very Russian.
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As a man, "being feminine or expressing femininity in Western culture was considered weak or wrong," he said.
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But sly works like "She," a 1992 piece by Lorna Simpson, question traditional notions of masculinity and femininity.
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The styles that graced the runways were a departure from tradition and a celebration of femininity and romance.
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This season, the Martha Graham Dance Company is highlighting historical and contemporary ideas of femininity in Graham's work.
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People like Newell indicate that male femininity is far more expansive than mainstream society would like to believe.
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Some watching the World Cup seem perplexed that athleticism and femininity could coexist — Is Alex Morgan wearing makeup?
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The country was thrilled by the contrast between their youth and femininity and the viciousness of their crimes.
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The document says that "ideas of "intersex" or "transgender" lead to a masculinity or femininity that is "ambiguous.
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Such long, curve concealing dresses, Ms. Arnold noted, can be a rebuke to male-defined notions of femininity.
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Critics said the magazine's use of quotation marks seemed to call the athlete's gender or femininity into question.
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Chinese philosophy emphasizes the yin and the yang—yang being the energetic, masculine counterpart to yin's nurturing femininity.
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"It was possible that femininity, as I had been taught it, had come to an end," she writes.
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By appearing deliberately gender-nonconforming, butch women and people are seen to be rejecting traditional forms of femininity.
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She presents herself to men as "your ultimate fantasy," a nosegay of pure femininity arranged for their delight.
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And this season the news is not about showing off skin or playing into preconceived notions of femininity.
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In the fast-forward to 2016, we see a candidate who is accomplished, dignified and embraces her femininity.
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If we emphasize only the former, I believe femininity and the people who express it will remain devalued.
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She has redefined punk, explored the rituals of marriage and death and the codes of masculinity and femininity.
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S.H.E.R.Y.L is a hoot, potential alcoholic, and a simulation of femininity that Kimmy's male coworkers are comfortable with.
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Against fertile seaside backdrops, Sofia, seeking a robust, global meaning for femininity and motherhood, becomes increasingly bold herself.
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Levy's noirish novels have long examined the wages of traditional femininity — "the exhausted phantom," she has called it.
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"The Beguiled" remakes a pulpy early-'70s study in sexual hysteria into an arch melodrama of beleaguered femininity.
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He adores the femininity of women, but he likes the woman to be in charge of the situation.
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Supermodel Cindy Crawford talks about how there isn't one way to express femininity—especially in the world of fashion.
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Each raises questions germane to any young person — issues around masculinity and femininity, sexuality, revenge, allegiance, confidence and fear.
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It's important to accept there are evil, nasty women in the world who aren't that perfect version of femininity.
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Fragrance is a symbol of femininity and it gives you a confidence, and gives you sexiness, as a woman.
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And I like being able to do that without having that take away from my femininity or my womanhood.
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The Emily & Meritt Stitch Pillow Cover, $39.50 A pop of petal pink gives this punk pillow a little femininity.
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Femininity was admired from afar, but up close, among boys, it was something to be avoided at all costs.
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The pontianak's fearsomeness is linked to her femininity—a concept that feminist theorist Barbara Creed calls the monstrous-feminine.
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In practice, they require endless performance, rigorous self-maintenance, and constant vigilance to the ever-changing ideals of femininity.
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Her best performances show how even the most perfectly assembled performance of femininity can shatter, disassembling itself and others.
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Using all her power of femininity and intelligence to get the photographs that she felt she needed to get.
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It's not being afraid of femininity and so it's operating in that sort of aesthetic space and storytelling space.
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After all, fairy-tale princesses are simply one of the first forms of hyper-femininity society introduces us to.
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The only thing that I have managed to achieve over the years is my practically theatrical performance of femininity.
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"I definitely think that strength coexists with femininity and [being strong] doesn't mean you can't be girlie," she says.
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As such, we strove to create a space for a range of race, age, masculinity, femininity, and/or androgyny.
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The femininity and tradition of it all epitomized her as our modern day princess Carolyn Bessette Kennedy (on mannequin)
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She suspended the illusion of perfect femininity that had been built up around her, and snapped us all awake.
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For example, maybe gay men's preference for masculinity stems from a general societal devaluing of femininity or internalized homophobia.
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Baker's work utilizes food, families, and femininity to tell stories about women's imposed invisibility, and turns them into artwork.
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Things aren't going poorly because the doctor isn't a "cake-baking curtsy machine," as Jody's original "femininity" comment implied.
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What defined femininity in L.A. was very calculated and methodical and also depended on what everyone else was doing.
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With 20 tiny paintings and one hefty sculpture, an unexpected pairing of artists offers a nuanced take on femininity.
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Cupcakes' size, shape, and appearance all promote a view of femininity which similarly dwells on size, shape, and appearance.
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I told her yes, but that it was important to maintain some form of femininity to keep your identity.
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Historically they have stood for purity, femininity and wealth; strands of pearls are a classic coming-of-age gift.
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All of these women are known for their off-brand style of femininity, but clear mastery of their crafts.
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Their brand of femininity was wonky, with their thrifted dresses and accidentally matching haircuts, but it never seemed ingenuine.
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Lenny's lack of femininity is only amplified in the tense moment by Syd, who's the picture of retro girlishness.
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While the thin, masculine body is certainly prominent in these advertisements, femininity is not left out of the dataset.
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In Grande's world, femininity is never a weakness and her claws come out whenever that world view is challenged.
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Their overwhelming association of menstruation with femininity is reflected in the predominant pink colour schemes and cutesy flower decorations.
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It was the first time I felt that I too could embrace femininity no matter what I possessed aesthetically.
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In the 1920s, as women's enrollment in college increased drastically, men began to define masculinity as opposed to femininity.
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And yet the same two women were paragons of touchingly romantic old-world femininity in "Vienna Waltzes" on Sunday.
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She had brought her softness, her femininity, her down-to-earth practicality and deep empathy into our life together.
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As a feminist, Ms Faludi is startled to find Stefánie embracing a "florid femininity" that she herself had rejected.
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I believed I was a bad person by virtue of my identity, and I struggled to repress my femininity.
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But beyond that, Ms. Holmer found that drill was a way to show a more-complicated version of femininity.
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Something of the privation and the will of the Brontës, their radically internalized femininity, belongs also to Celia Paul.
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Must the politics of femininity invariably be accounted for, whether by determinedly ignoring them or by deliberately confronting them?
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It's misogynistic and speaks to our society's discomfort with women who don't fall within the traditional view of femininity.
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Anyway, when we arrived, there was this sort of bouquet of French femininity sitting in chairs on a terrace.
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"The movie seems a weird nightmare of rampaging femininity and gross gags," mused Michael Wilmington in the Chicago Tribune.
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Rachel's decision not to go through with a nose job makes this a truly modern portrayal of Jewish femininity.
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In the article she talks about her freedom, whether it's to express her femininity or just walk around unrecognized.
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I never wanted to fall into the archetypes of traditional femininity, nor did I want to be entirely male.
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The sterile smile on the sculpture's face and the huge tacky ribbon around her head suggest a forced femininity.
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It was as though needing lube made women feel as if they were lacking something — wetness, libido, femininity, fertility.
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The inspiration for Glamrou's drag look comes, in part, he tells me, from his mother's brand of Iraqi femininity.
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But Walsh took it to the next level when she singled out Trump's outfit's overt femininity as a problem.
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One of the huge questions that we worked with is based on a quote about what is traditional femininity.
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"At one time, there were things that exemplified the femininity that he built his brand around," Ms. Mull said.
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It's interesting, that contrast between the frivolousness implied by femininity and the solemnity that marks a diagnosis of cancer.
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Sources told The Guardian that Chua instructed female applicants to exude a "model-like" femininity, a claim Chua denies.
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One could say that Heilmann confronted the rigid masculinity of large-scale geometric abstractions with a seemingly casual femininity.
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"High heels are the number-one sartorial symbol of erotic femininity, and that's not changing anytime soon," she said.
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Along these lines, South African artist Frances Goodman is interested in the relations between femininity, costuming, and role-playing.
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Both my size and my femininity were always hard to see, but I knew what my body looked like.
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The suddenly mainstream femininity of little ruffled dresses, sequined slips and wide trousers of the formerly oddball Eckhaus Latta.
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" Marling notes that given this practice, it's difficult for audiences to "imagine femininity itself — empathy, vulnerability, listening — as strong.
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But even though the experience of misogynoir was painful, it also taught her the necessity of celebrating Black femininity.
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Women are expected to balance femininity with strong leadership and are quickly criticized if they fall short of expectations.
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We think you can do it through femininity, through being beautiful but strong, and they'll be empowered that way.
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Voters don't want to see someone ignore their femininity, but they don't want it to be their central platform.
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Beyoncé appeared as a goddess of femininity, while Adele endeared herself to the crowd with her humanity, flaws included.
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That means less emphasis on gymnasts' perceived femininity or aesthetic appeal, and more on their strength and technical skills.
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A simple gesture allowed viewers to reimagine a princess who may not ascribe to a traditional standard of femininity.
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The buttons gave the design a kind of riotous, black Southern femininity that became one of his lasting legacies.
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This newfound sense of femininity, though, arrived more because of vaguely divine intervention in Mexico than any active choices.
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These abstractions of femininity, especially to jaded modern eyes, hardly seem hot enough to restrict to a special room.
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And I don't like being beholden to the expectations of femininity; I like to do it on my own terms.
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"Rose Gold is a color that represents a woman's strength and femininity," Bandier's founder, Jenn Bandier, said in a statement.
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"[Pantsuits] hid [a woman's] femininity—and by that I mean their femaleness—because it is a serious liability," she says.
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The card is also often representative of mothering and motherhood, but its meaning also extends to femininity as a whole.
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"If I can conquer men, then I can conquer femininity," Jules tells Anna with a lit joint in her mouth.
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I love picturing her walking somewhere listening to this and smirking, giving off this total air of superior femininity & strength.
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It lets her laugh off criticism about ways in which she fails to live up to traditional standards of femininity.
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Some running women—such as Greek mythology's Atalanta, who killed the male suitors she outran—rejected the trappings of femininity.
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So I reached out to someone who understood femininity better than anyone else — legendary New York drag queen Glace Chase.
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Alternatively, she allows herself to become the apotheosis of "evil" femininity — a woman with the power to subdue a man.
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Although she presented a relentlessly cheerful model of femininity on the outside, forever eager to please, she roiled poisonously within.
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But cupcakes' size, shape, and appearance all promote a view of femininity which similarly dwells on size, shape, and appearance.
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Through them, femininity became a weapon rather than a weakness, turning the constraints of misogyny into a tool against it.
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Kate & Allie is have-it-all '80s femininity: a travel agent and a stay-at-home mom, both with children.
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But it has to let go of the idea Pink's version of femininity is a layover — not a final destination.
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Describing her work as hedonistic and self-satisfying, the London-based artist focuses on femininity, power, nature, and the body.
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Today, with nothing left to prove and without self-doubt, I find myself redefining my ideas of femininity once again.
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And every woman should understand the pressures they put their sexuality, libido, and femininity under, and be free from them.
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Yet for a woman, the sexual contract involves the navigation of beauty and femininity, of her value as an object.
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By the mid-1940s, international sports administrators began requiring female competitors to bring medical "femininity certificates" to verify their sex.
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I feel that I'm still only received as a cis gay man performing femininity, instead of simply existing as femme.
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And then there are those who feel only shame — about their appearance, their infertility, or their perceived lack of femininity.
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And apparently also this was gonna improve your seed of femininity because your feminine knowledge comes from your vagina. Right.
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If your idea of femininity is limited to good hair and a nice rack, you don't know what I know.
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Instead I feel like a mirror for the unattainable and often contradictory demands that are made on women and femininity.
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Like Fox News's femme fatale pundits, she mixed right wing politics with a brand of femininity associated with women's magazines.
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And I think since its initial publication, readers have thought about femininity in terms of like: Are you a Jo?
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Every part of this flower inspires fear: The hair clip resembles a noose, perhaps for a victim choked by femininity.
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They didn't choose their seclusion because their femininity denied them careers and public life, or not only for that reason.
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Their binary segregated one vision of femininity we adored (rule-abiding, delicate, hurting) from another we despised (trashy, whiny, angry).
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I really love Patti Smith, and I've been thinking about how to maintain your femininity when you're in the mix.
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These works suggest the uneasy relationship between sex, power, and desire that is brought to the surface by performed femininity.
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Machado remained fascinated by femininity and the strictures governing the lives of women — it's why he reminds me of Munro.
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Jane has this unique way of delivering a story that is just filled with these machinations of womanhood and femininity.
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NIN's writing was considered by some critics to show insights on femininity, while others felt her thoughts stemmed from narcissism.
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Instead, many of these women, with their athleticism, natural beauty and distinctive personalities, shaped his earliest sense of powerful femininity.
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Semenya said the rule stigmatized women who do not conform to perceived notions of femininity and permitted discrimination against them.
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Because black women were largely denied the cultural portrayals that seemed to define femininity, scoffing at those characterizations was freeing.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has promoted policies to raise the status of women in a society that values traditional femininity.
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Play up its throwback femininity (and cover up) with a demure cardigan in blush pink and a high-waist skirt.
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Mx. Schafer was assigned male at birth, but always found herself searching for and expressing femininity through art and fashion.
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The couple turned this work into $300 "Femininity Forums," sessions where they would teach women how to find a husband.
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So instead of trying to "out-machismo" the other men in the room, Fraser embraced the power of her femininity.
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In Goodyear's article, Obokata is introduced as "a stylish, self-possessed beauty," and her colleagues invariably focus on her femininity.
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The ditz is allowed to be incredibly competent because she's still conventionally feminine, and her femininity makes her competence unthreatening.
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I felt myself downplaying my femininity, slipping back into a uniform that made me feel more comfortable in my workplace.
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In this presentation, both artists present a muscular and unapologetic femininity that feels not only welcome right now but necessary.
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It is an airless and claustrophobic reflection of contemporary Asian femininity – but the metaphor can be extended around the world.
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And Poly was not about to dress up that vessel or package herself or play into anyone's notion of femininity.
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There, she and her peers introduced me to their vision of femininity — their deconstruction of the warping effect of womanhood.
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We still have this idea that femininity is malleable, and masculinity is a protected domain of real power and privilege.
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She gushed over her new straight-size clothing, and relished the femininity she was now allowed by those around her.
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They question the perception of the body as well as normative ideas of masculinity and femininity in Latin American cultures.
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"It was an illustration on how femininity can be something fabricated and not biological," Ms. Ulman said in a telephone interview.
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Like Dior, Chiuri is a romantic in her own way: she makes retrograde femininity perverse by taking it out of time.
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There's a forcefulness born from confidence throughout—all of which, as far as femininity is concerned, he gleaned from his mum.
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The coat reflects L.K. Bennett's overall design aesthetic, which the label describes as a "modern blend of femininity, color and style."
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After all, Black hair within Western contexts has historically been a tool to shame and undermine our beauty, femininity, and humanity.
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Baba's ambiguousness, according to the folklorist Joanna Hubbs, is directly connected to her femininity, and her feminity to the natural world.
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One reason that pop culture obsessiveness has been maligned as vapid is because it's always been so closely associated with femininity.
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More broadly, the femininity that the UDC embodied provided a cover for public behavior that was unheard of for Southern women.
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Oftentimes, women who celebrate their muscles aren't embraced by society or will have their femininity questioned, like Serena Williams, she says.
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I have lived long enough in the world to notice that black women are rarely allowed full access to their femininity.
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Granted, the sets and costumes complicate that statement a little because this nightmarish vision of femininity is also gorgeous and alluring.
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Cheerleaders were expected to epitomize a very traditional ideal of femininity and sexuality — but only with the approval of the League.
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"The women of the show are stripped away of everything — their rights, ownership over their bodies, their femininity," Gurung told Vogue.
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A modern, self-aware femme fatale, Maddie uses the expectations of femininity to lure people in — and she's unapologetic about it.
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"So when is America gonna address the toxic femininity that led to YouTube's headquarters getting shot up huh?" one person tweeted.
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They were creating a digital archive of other ways to be women, to experience strength and femininity on their own terms.
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And often, menswear worn by women has the effect of enhancing the femininity of the wearer rather than conveying true androgyny.
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For example, the hyper-femininity and thinness required of young women and the hyper-masculinity and fitness forced upon young men.
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Sweet, who considers herself a "queer world maker" aimed to reposition the painting's interpretation through her own lens of queer femininity.
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So she needs to be seen as maternal while also distancing herself from the femininity and weakness associated with that position.
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That for me was what being femme is about, being in charge of it, and that's why it's different to femininity.
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She'd always symbolised the type of femininity that I thought of as the "right" kind, but that was exactly the problem.
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The actress recently revealed to Variety the reason why she buzzed her hair, despite what it supposedly says about her femininity.
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More than womanhood per se, pink represents girlhood, and it can be understood as a gendered yet asexual marker of femininity.
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But femininity is conditional to being a woman — because how could a man in our society possibly benefit from being femme?
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"To put it in a nutshell, the shorter the hair, the more precarious a character's relationship with traditional femininity," Dokou says.
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For almost 30 years, Bikini Kill's music has been a talisman for people who have had their femininity held against them.
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"I was moved by the fact that [Johnson] really wanted her strength to first lead with a deep femininity," she said.
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" She describes visiting Coatlicue while pregnant and feeling that "the entire power of femininity, the monstrosity of maternity, was with me.
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"Rigid definitions of masculinity and femininity are reinforced in school settings by teachers, parents, the watchman and other adults," she said.
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Alison learns to live by the lie, and uses her femininity to attract (and, often, manipulate) the men on the show.
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She is a symbol of the Rolling Stones' blatant contradictions: They perform femininity as glam rockers but fail to respect women.
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As young people reject gender binaries, it's interesting to see pink, a color traditionally associated with hyper-femininity, increase in popularity.
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Countering these touches of femininity, however, are the presence of props that are clearly masculine, the most obvious being samurai swords.
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"I feel like Western pop artists express themselves in a very widely socially accepted way of masculinity or femininity," explains Natalie.
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Such individuals are often said to have the "fa'afafine spirit", though the extent and the age they express their femininity varies.
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The empowered woman showed everything in an act of continuing rebellion against the corseted and covered-up femininity of centuries past.
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On the other hand, there is a rejection of any and all values linked to femininity and, by extension, to homosexuality.
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For it is at such junctures that femininity — as condition and fate — is seen in its greatest distinctness from the male.
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Femininity-embracing drag queen Aquaria, traditionally masculine former NFL player Michael Sam, and presidential candidate Buttigieg can all be affirmatively gay.
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Are these Freudian fits, "Crucible"-like convulsions, orgiastic reveries, initiation ceremonies (into femininity, etc.) or sly performances from attention-hungry adolescents?
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For many, the reduction of the waist persistently reflects a reductive view of femininity, limited to a va-va-voom outline.
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The inversion of the corset, its reclamation as an item not just of femininity, but of feminism, came in the 193s.
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By using 15 men and one woman, it sets up situations that challenge ballet's usual focus on femininity and heterosexual chivalry.
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This was a very specific, particular type of femininity and type of struggle with love and she makes it very clear.
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I want to show androgyny in a way that's not "neutral," but rather the opposite—extreme masculinity mixed with extreme femininity.
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It recognizes that I identify with aspects of femininity but don't identify with the heteronormative system that trivializes and demonizes them.
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The brilliantly cogent surrealist object signals the near drowning of a particularly historicized sign of femininity and elevated socio-economic status.
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Check out our guide to Franklin's music here, and read Kaila Philo's essay, "Aretha Franklin's Sketch of Black Femininity," right here.
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At the time, I was interested in the contrasting themes of masculinity and femininity, and how I could blend the two.
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For opponents of suffrage, masculinity, rationality, and power were intrinsically linked, while helplessness, sentiment, and dependence were defining characteristics of femininity.
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She was to employ — if not positively exploit — her own femininity, throwing it over her female sitters with almost exaggerated effect.
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Any attempt to make genuine feminists out of his heroines struggles, because they all, ultimately, serve Wagner's own visions of femininity.
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I am not worried about losing my femininity to breast cancer surgery; I'm worried about losing my future to the disease.
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I would take that statement further, arguing that it insults breast cancer patients to conjoin our femininity and this frightening disease.
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To admire Anna Magnani is to admire a total woman, an extraordinary actress and, above all, an expression of "polar" femininity.
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Women had been barred from road races since 4643, as experts claimed distance running was damaging to their health and femininity.
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My unabashed femininity was what paved the way for gay men in, say, fraternities to come out without jeopardizing their masculinity.
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Worse, across mainstream movies and television, gay protagonists often gain their status as protagonists and palatability by distancing themselves from femininity.
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I cannot detach my Blackness, my femininity, my queerness, or my mental health from an analysis on what happened in Orlando.
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Sometimes you would be the girl in a male cast, and could bring femininity and temper some of the male stuff.
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Much of the queens' vernacular, body language and movements come from the drag world's — especially white queens' — interpretation of black femininity.
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Meanwhile, Molly Goddard presented riots of ruffles and flouncy frocks — a spectacle of over-the-top femininity with a revolutionary edge.
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Just as Barack Obama studiously avoided being seen as a black president, Meir stayed far away from both femininity and feminism.
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Water Will utilizes black and white, reflective of the show's themes — darkness and light, femininity and ugliness, nature and death entwined.
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As Selma Blair continues to embrace her shaved head, the actress has shown she's unafraid to challenge preconceived notions of femininity.
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Just as feminists have long argued that women are men's equals, we should also be saying that femininity is masculinity's equal.
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"Me, a woman who looks pretty cisgendered heteronormative, can feel confined by a specific type of femininity," she said by phone.
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The work, by the artist Jennifer Rubell, explores the "complicated relationship between feminism and femininity" and sprang from a remark Mrs.
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It controls women by elevating them, fetishizing motherhood, praising femininity, but defining it in terms of service to men and children.
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After the company's debut in 1974, critics applauded its smart satire of ballerinas and inherent commentary on the performance of femininity.
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She'd hammer Hillary Clinton for talking too much about gender and duck behind her femininity in the face of legitimate criticism.
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As first lady, Clinton's femininity and appropriateness in the role were constantly questioned (as when she was first lady of Arkansas).
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I had always equated femininity with flowing locks, and each pitifully thin strand made me feel like less of a woman.
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What she calls her "ungendering" spurs her to notice how the male gaze is a sinkhole and conventional femininity a trap.
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But many clearly share her unique takes on broad subjects, including race, gender and femininity, beauty, and social presentations of self.
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" Gruys went on, "We know that our culture makes masculinity and men more powerful and more important than femininity and women.
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Masculinity is closely tied to one's virility and interest in sexual gratification, while femininity is linked with one's sexual desirability or sexiness.
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Juxtaposing irreverence and the finest craftsmanship, femininity and a determinedly free spirit, the offering encapsulates everything the Miu Miu name stands for.
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" Plant goes on to note, "While previous bass-heavy movements have had masculine energy at their core, Wave celebrates femininity and innocence.
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She was ferociously competitive, unabashedly criticising female colleagues for being "pushy", or for—perish the thought—using their femininity to get ahead.
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But many seemed indignant that the essay — a form troublesome for its femininity and popularity — was tainting the purity of literary fiction.
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There's a term for behaviors that female athletes engage in to assert their femininity, and it's called "female apologetic," Dr. Mann says.
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The central, terrifying question we're left with is: If femininity is the root of chaos, how is he suggesting we fix it?
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Among the extensive portfolio Gertrude Käsebier's built over her lifetime, some of her most powerful pictures capture themes of motherhood and femininity.
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Since 1998, we've watched Parker drown in the pressures of modern femininity, all the while desperately trying to come up for air.
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Church girl Karolina (Virginia Gardener) is surrounded by pink and elegant, clean decor, situating her as a paragon of princess-like femininity.
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The Dora Milaje, on the other hand, derive their power and beauty from a femininity that exists outside patriarchal concepts of empowerment.
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Wright, with her distaste for femininity, could have chosen to illustrate another type of scicomm, filling the gap she felt she saw.
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VICE caught up with Soda to chat about the show, femininity, and how the internet simultaneously liberates women and tears them down.
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Daisy is "a woman in this man's world, so I really wanted to mix masculinity with femininity for her," Ms. Hoffman said.
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There's also a lot of femininity in his jumpsuits—his gypsy jumpsuit, his puff sleeves... Have you ever had any weird fans?
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That's hard to square with a show that sells what many believe is an outdated and dull version of sexuality and femininity.
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I am now comfortable, and even excited, to be mainly naked pole-dancing, embracing my curves, my sultry moves, and my femininity.
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Her practice, a blend of feminist performance art, Instagram photography, modeling, and acting, challenges traditional notions of femininity, beauty, and self-representation.
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Although much of the world aspires towards a slender ideal of femininity, the pressure to be thin in Japan is uniquely strong.
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In this series, the two are announcing a new set of themes that revolve around good and evil, depression, emotion, and femininity.
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To advise against applying it is to shame them for partaking in the rituals of femininity that are often thrust upon them.
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The surfaces in the video each exude a kind of femininity: white cloth, pink silk underwear, pink sand, and a glittery cheek.
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I had stumbled around the outskirts of femininity in a play for love and attention, trying to find a dress that fit.
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Is the fear of being perceived as unfeminine actually greater for the ambitious woman than the fear of femininity as a constraint?
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"The female genius must be hidden in favor of presenting a respectable femininity and a focus on the domestic sphere," Ganetz wrote.
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The collection presented a contrast between femininity and masculinity in one design, hailed by some of those who came to the show.
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Bennett told Insider that Grande came to him with the idea of a sphere, which she associates with "the universe" and femininity.
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"I was really concerned that having a specific attraction to trans femininity meant essentially disqualifying trans women from total womanhood," Allie said.
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Raewyn Connell, author of "Masculinities," said many teenage boys still feel as though they must avoid any signs of weakness or femininity.
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"Has sex with: "I play with people of all genders (including cis men), as long as they understand and respect queer femininity.
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Opening May 12, HerOiNe: The Future is Pink features artists who reimagine gender roles and contemporary concepts of femininity through their work.
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Rather, it's a closer look at all of the nature-based celebrations that take place during May around sex, fertility, and femininity.
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It features tapes from new and returning artists to the HausMo stable, including Forced into Femininity, Rick Weaver, Khaki Blazer, and Sug.
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She has an incredible piece that we're super excited about that's focused on femininity and power; it makes a strong feminist statement.
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This bunny girl is trapped by her femininity, only to be knocked against her fellow bunnies in a game of masculine skill.
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With this one posture, Neery made visual her lifelong impulse of destroying patriarchal views of femininity and masculinity, of suffering and victory.
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We don't want the Denims to look like realistic girls because that's problematic; we imitate hyper femininity in order to critique it.
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His cut-throat style with an unabashed femininity tends to pose a threat to the masculinity of tough guys on the block.
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Rivera, who'd struggled with prescribed femininity in her own life, suggested photography as a means to explore Lillis's identity outside of isolation.
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Tru doesn't fit into this box of femininity, of womanhood, but has no guide, no one else who is actually like her.
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The documentary also discusses how drag, a rebellion against the norms of masculinity and femininity, has become more mainstream in recent years.
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If players choose to forgo makeup or wear their hair short, ignoring conventional notions of femininity, they're often labeled boyish or masculine.
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Patterns that individually would wallpaper rooms in ideals of femininity and beauty, transposed onto male bodies that the dominant culture labels worthless.
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His paintings, which helped inspire the Primitivist art movement, saw Polynesian femininity as representing some preternatural connection between body, soul, and land.
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The world premiere of "Wildflowers, a feminine genesis," Maureen Fleming's interdisciplinary celebration of femininity and Yeats's poetic symbolism, will follow in October.
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In show notes, Plein said the line was for "highly-charged fearless women who brave the world with control, femininity and bravado".
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This was only the first of four collections where Simons would refine, define and further explore similar themes of fluorescent-hued femininity.
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It certainly can, but the debate shows you that Ms. Tharp has — sometimes — taken femininity in ballet where it hasn't been before.
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In 20173, the couple founded the American Family and Femininity Institute, dedicated to teaching women that their place was in the home.
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It allows me to feel comfortable in my gender identity as a male, but my still have the femininity that I enjoy.
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Like Tolentino and McBee, they get that it's all too easy to fall back on the empty rhetoric of respect for femininity.
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Sometimes, very young men and women like to experiment with gender markers — like hyper-masculinity and -femininity — at the outset of adulthood.
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As a result, she serves as a canvas on which people project their ideas of femininity, celebrity and the British upper class.
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True feminism means these two ideas (femininity and independence) can exist in tandem, which is why her necklace is such an important statement.
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In her 2015 debut show, Present Life, Buckman displayed her own plastinated placenta, exploring themes of mortality, beauty, and femininity in the process.
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Opened last Tuesday, this all-female exhibition reveals the authenticity at the core of self-representation through an expressive dialogue on modern femininity.
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"Sansa may be girly, but she's not weak; she just finds her strength within femininity itself," Julianne Ross wrote at Mic in 2014.
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Aniston's point, quite correctly, is that these stories, both consciously and unconsciously, send harmful messages to women and girls about beauty and femininity.
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Her brand of effortless charm and wholesome femininity made her the embodiment of the ideal woman during the late '19693s and early '60s.
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Kate isn't simply effortlessly good at femininity — a Diana-type, who stumbles as naturally into princesshood as if singing birds led her there.
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Christie set out on a mission to take roles that challenged traditional notions of femininity and what it is to be a woman.
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Even though I often wore women's clothing, I was ashamed of my femininity because I thought it meant I'd have to be alone.
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Today gay men applaud YouTubers' cheesy coming out videos, but Chris says in 2007, most of the gay male community despised his femininity.
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So while the pop stars we've loved and kissed the posters of have always flirted with femininity, flirtation is no longer a requirement.
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Mapplethorpe always had an affinity for exploring the shades of gray between masculinity and femininity, dressing himself in both butch and femme drag.
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Her femininity is part of the story, for the way it makes even the other heroes in the movie underestimate and discount her.
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The science fiction writer Rachel Pollack has found, as she ages, that the outer world is more open to her variety of femininity.
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The jumps break the illusion for a moment, reminding us how much the impression of femininity is an optical illusion, a stage trick.
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Ultimately she was playing up her femininity and her physicality as a means of cutting a place in the world that was meaningful.
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Traditionally, in order to legitimize themselves — in the public sphere, in the workplace — women have stripped themselves of these hallmarks of stereotypical femininity.
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This isn't a rag-to-riches story as much as it is a rumination on the social scripts about femininity, race, and class.
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The New York City-based artist creates large-scale, woven sculptures that explore femininity "in its conception, materials, construction, everything," she tells Creators.
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Yuskavage, a masterful colorist, makes lush, luminous, intentionally — and delightfully — gauche paintings that unsettle facile notions of misogyny, femininity and the female gaze.
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SEATTLE — She has embraced, with a smile and a flourish of diamonds, the imagery of guns, glitter and a hard-edge Western femininity.
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This will change the larger public consensus in the ways we look at femininity in art, photographs, films, and society as a whole.
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Helpfully suggested by the '90s revival, the witch aesthetic emerged as both a corrective and the next logical step forward for weaponized femininity.
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It reinforces the sexist stereotype already plaguing female academics: that femininity means frivolity, and high heels are compensating for a lack of brainpower.
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He coined the phrase "gender identity", by which he meant a "complex system of beliefs about oneself: a sense of masculinity and femininity".
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Strong, vulnerable, gentle, ironic, humorous, relaxed, eccentric, intelligent, sexy, irreverent — these are some of the ways I would describe my kind of femininity.
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Reddit users posted an even more radical set of complaints, ascribing the updated design to some sort of conspiratorial agenda against traditional femininity.
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Even in high school, when my body was developing and all the curves came in, I didn't get a sense of my femininity.
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I figured I was just a failure at femininity; that the definition of woman was broad and that my masculinity fit within it.
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The point about daintiness remains, however, and is still a factor in the popularity of cupcakes today, as is a link with femininity.
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It's about the people who made these fabrics as much as the fabrics themselves, the extreme industrial line combined with history and femininity.
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" She says, "Collective fantasies surround the black body, and have created a cultural niche in which exists our contemporary understanding of black femininity.
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It's not the defining characteristic of femininity, but it is a perk of being a girl for us girls who enjoy using it.
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In an interview with Broadly, he pointed out that even determining the masculinity or femininity of a fragrance may be a fallacious endeavor.
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The Canadian artist—who says her work explores femininity, interdependence, performance, and solitude—draws a world that is pink, mystical and brashly feminist.
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My guess is that a lot of women feel very similarly about certain clothes and the need to perform femininity in certain ways.
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You see, my aunts weren't just the typical black women who held the black community together, they were also trailblazers of black femininity.
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Or maybe the contrast between a woman with an uncertain relationship with femininity and one who embraced it had clarified what he wanted?
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Ethan (Rory Scovel), Renee's boyfriend, gets subjected to jabs about his "femininity" (he does Zumba), but his insecurities aren't resolved like hers are.
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The life I lived—including the countless names I went by—never felt right because it lacked the femininity I desired deep down.
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I think young people and queer people are pushing the ways we think about gender, masculinity, and femininity harder than ever right now.
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Sprinkled powder has begun to meld into the dense whipped cream, like a sea of men sinking into the encompassing foam of femininity.
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During the training sessions—which took place weekly for six weeks—we learned all about gender stereotypes and concepts of masculinity and femininity.
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Meanwhile, the paintings' titles are peppered with allusions to nurses—those archetypal female caregivers—forcing the viewer to confront stereotypes associated with femininity.
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The painting that conveys a spirit of modern femininity best isn't of a woman but of a 9-year-old girl, Mäda Primavesi.
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"Lela has such a sense of femininity and fun," said Jenna Bush, the "Today" show correspondent and twin daughter of George W. Bush.
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On "Your Best American Girl," Mitski unabashedly discusses the American dream, femininity, girlhood, parental expectations, and racial dynamics, all in three uncontainable minutes.
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Instead her dresses support her platform with a tailored militant femininity (and the occasional kick pleat), to go with her ramrod-straight bob.
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Internet pundits and commentators alike seemed disgusted by the Cyborg because she apparently looked "too masculine" and did nothing to promote her femininity.
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I was referring less to the lipstick than to her affinity for the traditional trappings of femininity, like frilly dresses and long hair.
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When contemporary fashion cites the art form, the statement is less about classical dance than it is about the perils of glamorous femininity.
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If we don't like what we see when trans women turn the mirror of femininity toward us, we have only ourselves to blame.
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"These are all codes for 'she is displaying proper expectations of femininity,'" said Marianne Cooper, a sociologist at Stanford who studies gender inequality.
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Likewise, Del Rey's music indulges in melodramatic archetypes of women by amplifying concepts of femininity and futility to the point of high camp.
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But this is a difficult idea to swallow in a novel where femininity is inextricably, exuberantly linked with miserable yearning and sexual objectification.
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So she presents a really useful opportunity to think about different cultural expectations around celebrity and public performances of white femininity over time.
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For instance, in the Marc Selwyn Fine Art booth, Hannah Wilke's glazed white porcelain sculptures challenge abstraction and femininity as two irreconcilable positions.
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Hip movements were the key predictor of how positively a dancer was rated in this study, perhaps because they're an indicator of femininity.
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"This clip, which has been viewed more than 89,000 times, lives alongside videos like "Debunking the Black Lives Matter Narrative" and "Toxic Femininity.
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So, I associate red lipstick with all the best qualities of Latina women, like strength, femininity, and a very strong sense of confidence.
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"The whole thing is about the idea of protecting a woman's femininity," said Hatoon al-Fassi, a Saudi academic who studies women's history.
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And our senior writer on gender issues looked at how Ms. Le Pen is trying to use her femininity to soften her image.
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Instead, she's a kind of post-feminist huckster, selling us traditional femininity and support of male power wrapped up in a feminist bow.
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The nascent movement to "go flat" after mastectomies challenges long-held assumptions about femininity and what it means to recover after breast cancer.
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At Cambridge, she wrote her dissertation on Carson McCullers and her break from ideas of femininity formed in and by the antebellum South.
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The second I felt the clippers hit my scalp, I began questioning what femininity actually means to me, and if it even matters.
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I vividly remember how Eliot describes her, shaking her head like a Shetland pony before chopping off her hair in defiance of femininity.
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Before and after the incident, as it's often called, she was grist for thumb-sucking takes on women, femininity, sports and social class.
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"Because gender nonconformity is so heavily policed in young boys, men learn very early on to eliminate femininity or be ridiculed," Miller said.
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It was a deliberate gesture by Jarrar, whose work often explores femininity and patriarchy, which in turn is interconnected with colonialism and warfare.
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Of course, the flamboyance and knowing how to enhance that femininity came from the peers I eventually met through ballroom culture, but the womanhood?
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The lower half of the figure's body is angled off the couch, communicating a break in the positioning of black beauty, femininity, and power.
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The show's writers, frequently criticized for their treatment of female characters, have in the past seemed to favor Arya over Sansa, masculinity over femininity.
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I want to read stories not of propped-up femininity, but of people who are disoriented but also electrified by their new hormonal configuration.
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She must be feminine — which is to say, she must look like what our nation has decided femininity looks like at any given time.
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In fact, it inaugurated a common complaint about her: that she was, in her own way, acting out a certain kind of stereotypical femininity.
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The tenets of white femininity fail to stand on their own unless we are constantly reminded of their shadow: the strong, masculine black woman.
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Unlike White, she wasn't praised as an enviable example of femininity in the suit but instead was slut-shamed, body-shamed, and generally demeaned.
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Through her play with the notion of "hunting," Calle offers a contemporary view on femininity that celebrates the power of beauty, desire, and seduction.
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Now it feels like a reflection on my willingness to accept the narrative that femininity is supposed to be soft, to sound high-pitched.
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" She adds that the message of the album is "so inclusive and puts feminism and femininity and female empowerment on such a broad spectrum.
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Just because you're in a man's world and you're bending the rules a little bit, doesn't mean a woman needs to lose her femininity.
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And on top of that, women are punished for being too feminine, since femininity is considered less "serious" or important in society than masculinity.
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" SH: "For me, being queer is an active choice — to reject patriarchal masculinity, to object whiteness, to challenge gender norms, and to celebrate femininity.
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Many of these texts recall private moments of anger, embarrassment, or beauty that feel particular to femininity, to a woman tethered by social expectations.
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The 80 female artists represented in the show all make powerful statements on modern femininity — especially in the face of a changing political climate.
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We have a lot of cisgendered female fans and I think the inauthenticity and the hyper-femininity is part of why it's so celebrated.
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All our lives, the "fairer sex" has been told that femininity is a delicate flower, a weakness, a virtue, and an invitation for abuse.
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Since there is no rationale given for the diva race, it gives the impression of an event meant to contain women and their femininity.
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The schism between Pink and the broader brand are more than just two different product lines; they represent two completely different modes of femininity.
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In the short film, femininity and softness inhabit the desert landscapes so loved by O'Keeffe, one of the first and greatest American Modernist painters.
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But more importantly, I don't believe that the tools in Amma's toolbox — weaponized femininity, emotional manipulation, and secret knowledge — are really joined with sociopathy.
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She feels empowered in her femininity while topping a man because she feels she is fucking with his masculinity in more ways than one.
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According to Sessoms, the Nile crocodile, Sobek, that is also found in the portrait at the figure's feet symbolizes a sense of strong femininity.
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Under the leadership of Karl Lagerfeld, who served as the creative director from 1964 to 1984, the brand's signature brazen femininity was firmly established.
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"The New Look," largely credited to Dior, was really invented by James, whose nipped waists and umbrella skirts would come to define '50s femininity.
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I suspect this is rarely discussed because fashion's connection to youth and femininity makes us overlook it as a form of knowledge and politics.
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Her work often explores issues surrounding gender, identity, and place—especially related to American subcultures whose own definitions of masculinity and femininity are shifting.
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Further wrapping the frames to match the jewel tones of each image, Bennett conflates the performance of femininity with the pretext of art itself.
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It starts off with Rory rejecting the idea of enforced femininity; it ends with her strapping on a frilly apron to please her boyfriend.
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This was an intersection of theories about femininity, victimhood, money and ethics, much of it influenced by Ayn Rand, one of Raniere's favorite authors.
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It was obvious that femininity, as written by men and performed by women, was the exhausted phantom that still haunted the early 21st century.
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Indeed, bows, trains, veils and capes — the accessories most associated with the ghosts of femininity long ago — were a peculiar leitmotif of the season.
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Hayao Miyazaki's female protagonists, for example, combine femininity with resilience and moral fortitude, without making a great spectacle out of any of these characteristics.
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The implications are clear: Women who explicitly embrace traditional femininity will not be making decisions for the future of the six kingdoms of Westeros.
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I had this idea in my head that I wanted to completely embrace my femininity, like completely just go over the top with it.
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Uma soon discovers that Paradise Hills is a rehab center for privileged young women who don't conform to their family's antediluvian norms of femininity.
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There's a kind of persistent misogyny in our culture, and at least historically, Swift's persona has really leaned into very traditional forms of femininity.
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Insanity, fury, irrepressible passion: These risky paintings were not just assaults on Fascism but also expressions of uncontrollable femininity that roiled a patriarchal Italy.
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They're fun to wear with light jeans and a white T-shirt, which is how I tamper down their femininity to meet my aesthetic.
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Melody is a literal product of the male gaze—a person who is probably a man pantomiming femininity for an audience of paying men.
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There is a move away from negating your femininity to expressing your style through clothing in the workplace while still feeling powerful or professional.
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But today's male dancers don't want to go on point as a caricature of femininity, as has historically been the case with drag roles.
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I worked some foundation into my face, brushed my hair, and almost exclusively wore dresses, tapping into the most cliché image of femininity possible.
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Vanessa German and her partner, Janae Brown, present an intimate exchange between Black women, a perspective absent in mainstream depictions of African-American femininity.
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Unfortunately, [other] people's perceptions of femininity have circled around the length of your hair, the curve of your body, and how much makeup you wear.
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And if you have flawed women onscreen who are also icons of femininity, are also beloved, then it gives us all permission to be flawed.
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She is the icone [sic] of femininity and women power and she will, 'take down the Wall Street Bull' one step at the time [sic].
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Through Tamara, a photography project in 2016, she wanted to show how she uses masculinity and femininity with flexibility despite the pressures of heteronormative society.
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Will her fans still see her as a beacon of raw femininity, or will radio stations skip over her tracks during their commercial-free hours?
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My long hair was regularly called "beautiful" and I believed was a signifier of my femininity; I wondered whether my short hair would challenge this.
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Now that my hair was no longer attached to my body, I realized just how much of a powerful symbol of femininity it really was.
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What Amma is killing in Ann and Natalie — what drives her to a murderous rage — is her own need to escape this prison of femininity.
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Above all, Jessi inspires us to keep tearing down rigid definitions of "femininity" in pursuit of our own, utterly unique identities, scrappy '90s overalls included.
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The album has garnered strong praise from critics, and features 21 tracks that touch on race and femininity, fusing R&B, soul and funk sounds.
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They were among a telling handful of designers romancing the corset, that age-old emblem of coy femininity, reviving it from its yearslong fainting spell.
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They're a kind of token of femininity, a tie to when she was very young and loved the way the earrings looked on her mother.
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The series, shot in sumptuous yet ethereal black-and-white by Turkish photographer Emel Karakozak, is an exploration of femininity, mother nature, reproduction, and regeneration.
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"I felt like I was holding onto a piece of femininity that would make the world feel comfortable with who I am," Waithe told Variety.
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"I reject the claim about the narrow view of femininity because our community is vibrant and diverse," Yammine wrote to The Verge in an email.
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It was "not so much about emulating men but steering the spotlight away from their femininity, so it didn't become a distraction," Guthrie told us.
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This is yet another notable departure from Simons' legacy, whose definition of Dior femininity was more artful and fantastical than necessarily realistic (but still lauded).
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Belle doesn't break any gender role paradigms, but femininity in her story has more agency and more strength than it did for her passive predecessors.
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Among the references present is Stephanie St. Clair, a mob boss during the Harlem Renaissance, alongside various portrayals of femininity from the dawn of television.
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At the same time, Rivera, who also creative directs each shoot, confronts traditional notions of gender, seeking to add an oft-ignored strength to femininity.
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The artists that are included, however, explode the one-dimensional vision of Southern Californian femininity, offering alternatives vis-a-vis race, age, and beauty ideals.
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Tasha Robinson: Your husband has the sole scriptwriting credit here, but you've talked about how this film came out of your personal feelings about femininity.
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The cultural celebration of femininity in France, deplored back in 1949 by Simone de Beauvoir in "The Second Sex", blurs the lines and complicates judgment.
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Through her visual art, videos, and Tumblr posts, Aguhar critiqued normative beauty standards, called out racism, misogyny, and fatphobia, and expanded conventional understandings of femininity.
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This powerful statement not only offers up queer tenacity, but also highlights the importance of expanding the notions of femininity beyond the cisgender female experience.
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"Even if it's a mindset of hers being shifted or a realization of how to experience and express her own ferocity and femininity," Gurira said.
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"As a teenager I felt like I had to act a certain way to hide my sexuality and femininity to avoid being judged," he explains.
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" The pamphlet also listed potential topics of conversation to use each week, like "What does 'femininity' mean to you in terms of your own life?
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" To you and me, this essentially means that it makes you feel empowered within your femininity and helps you learn how to "own your sexuality.
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But Armatrading is so unlike a wispy North American singer-songwriter—think Sarah McLachlan and her breathy femininity—that the song takes on a backbone.
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They could be sexy in a minivan, be poised in the kitchen and, most important, be professionally ambitious without ever sacrificing the hallmarks of femininity.
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So it was invigorating to finally see a definitive statement about femininity and strength, luxury and the future, courtesy of Nicolas Ghesquière at Louis Vuitton.
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In Iraq, the wives of soldiers have traditionally cut their hair as an act of erasing their femininity, viewing hair as both sexy and holy.
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In all, breast reconstruction is far more than a series of surgical procedures, but often part of restoring a missing and healing sense of femininity.
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Wonder Woman's crowning glory emphasizes her femininity even as she charges into war zones, and it's part of the iconic look we've admired for decades.
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However -- and here's the catch -- that's true only if they are physically strong and career-oriented and eschew most of the traditional trappings of femininity.
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We can systematically turn people off when we let a government ordain what femininity looks like, what women's rights looks like, what protection looks like.
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Pharmaceutical companies who own the patents on pharmaceutical hormones have spent millions marketing the claims that these substances are the basis of masculinity and femininity.
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Pappas also told Bustle that the hashtags are about more than just menstruation — they're also about breaking down stereotypes regarding what femininity should look like.
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In each of her compositions, Kasztelan is working against the forced femininity that is crammed down girls' throats from their first pink, unicorn-motif onesie.
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Her lyrical output was a 240-degree perspective of femininity, a depiction more forthright and complete than nearly anything delivered by artists of earlier eras.
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Without knowing anything, she's doing a dress out of pubic hair—I would think it has something to do obviously with femininity or with humanity.
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Each of them has succeeded as a fighter alongside the men around them; each of them has, to some degree, overtly rejected displays of femininity.
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The only tell that her business-casual femininity is a mirage created for television is that she has not modified her look for 11 years.
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Through all of her outfit changes, Billie stayed true to herself and didn't give into the pressure to perform traditional femininity on the red carpet.
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Together, the artists challenge dominant notions of nationalism, consumerism, neocolonialism, and masculinist tropes through a shared language of femininity, domesticity, bodies, fiction, and the everyday.
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That project earned her a $10,000 grant from Getty Images and inspired her to explore another side of femininity: the relationship between mothers and daughters.
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Through its serene depiction of beauty and femininity, it symbolized a certain "national consciousness," and was destined to "bring our peoples together," Mr. Enwonwu added.
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The contemporary bride, she said, is comfortable with her femininity and coming to terms with the notion that it's fine to show a tender side.
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Today, as a new generation of artists takes the helm, ideas of femininity, sexuality, and gender continue to be explored through new approaches and technologies.
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Her eloquent dancing is utterly natural, full of strength, femininity and a worldly maturity that evokes a bygone glamour as movement melts from her shoulders.
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On the one hand, the ditzy spy shows us that femininity can be a powerful weapon, and that there is no shame in soft power.
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She says, in her experience, most women in the military want to be seen as fighters, not women, but maintain their femininity in subtle ways.
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The Caramel Curves' look conveys their playful interpretation of femininity, but the world of biking they have stepped into is usually associated with male figures.
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Ballet is widely seen as putting women on a pedestal — male dancers literally lift them over their heads — reinforcing conventional ideas about masculinity and femininity.
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A 2013 study in the Journal of Communication and Sport noted that media portrayals of female athletes emphasized femininity and heterosexuality as opposed to athleticism.
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Until relatively recently, women who complained of menstrual cramps were reportedly sent to psychiatrists because the cramps were seen as a rejection of one's femininity.
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Performed with her partner Janae Brown, it will present an intimate exchange between Black women, a perspective absent in mainstream depictions of African-American femininity.
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So, we shouldn't be surprised that this attitude crosses over into the sexual arena as well, especially in a society that devalues women and femininity.
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I think it's so easy for women to feel unattractive because they just don't perform femininity or fit what society's idea of a woman should be.
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But along the way, I was actually able to get more comfortable with my femininity and that's why it's not as much of an issue anymore.
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In one aspect, it's a story about love, and in one aspect, it's a story about gender-bending and exploring different ideas of femininity on screen.
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Interestingly, Jane isn't the first pro-woman character to recently drag another lady for not falling into the usual sphere of educated, well-to-do femininity.
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In his first full-length collection, he uses spirited language and hypnotic cadence to question masculinity and femininity, to inspect violence and family, memory and romance.
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It is the girl who ends up publicly shamed for her lack of morals on the news, her hair shorn as a symbol of removed femininity.
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And she did it as an artistic statement, turning a standard celebrity birth announcement into an invocation of a rich visual history of motherhood and femininity.
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For a lot of trans guys like me, as soon as we come out as transgender, we feel like we have to reject all femininity violently.
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So femininity for the femme lesbians in these types of relationships wasn't just a look, it was statement that they wouldn't bend to anyone else's expectations.
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A woman has been handing out an empowering note in London's Kings Cross station to encourage women and girls to embrace their femininity in the workplace.
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She felt as though a piece of her identity was taken away with the scalpel and was desperate to find her femininity and feel whole again.
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Gurung opted to use a feminine design to drive home the point that embracing femininity can be empowering when it's done on a woman's own terms.
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However, that's not to say that as a South Indian woman I was able to completely avoid how my hair is undeniably tied to my femininity.
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In my makeup bag there's an ode to the women who gave me a femininity to explore, but not to parody (that's just terrible, lazy drag).
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Because if the VS show is a celebration of femininity and a woman's body and curves, then every type of women and bodies should be represented.
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Who can forget the eldest Trump daughter, dressed sensibly in millennial pink and channeling the traditional image of femininity, at the 2016 Republican National Convention (RNC)?
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In discussion, however, they were called out by several students who noted how much privilege the items represented and how easily they enforced stereotypes of femininity.
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Nevertheless, seeing Naomi singing the song totally transforms the song and makes it much more universal, because Naomi is an icon of beauty and of femininity.
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This can include sexist hostility (misogynistic jokes), sexual hostility (degrading women with language and behaviour) or gender policing (punishing women for not conforming to stereotypical femininity).
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It's easier to make fun of a bottom than a top, because the bottom is taking on a "woman's" role and society equates femininity with weakness.
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In her work, she explores themes of modern femininity with the aim of creating unique and individual clothing to make women feel content, confident, and courageous.
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She tells me that both songs will appear on an upcoming EP called Toxic Femininity, out this Friday on Jam City's new(ish) label Earthly Records.
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Long hair, on the other hand, communicates femininity in a number of ways, some of them related to how women should not just look but behave.
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Buffy Summers is a living embodiment of the kind of femininity that horror and action traditionally despise, that they erase or disregard or destroy on sight.
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The clothing is shapeless, echoing the black chadors that Iranian women must wear on top of their clothes in public to hide any hint of femininity.
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And she really leaned into the strength of femininity to create a dynamic and original film we're so thrilled for you girls and boys to see.
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Still, the uproar over the proposed policy changes in 1999 underscores the fact that the pageant remains contingent on a very narrow view of idealized femininity.
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She'd thought about it, writes Neal Gabler, author of "Barbra Streisand: Redefining Beauty, Femininity, and Power," the latest entry in Yale's University Press's Jewish Lives series.
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His cowboy drag—did he wear it for himself or to convince the women in his life of his masculinity, and thus of their own femininity?
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Her work was itself a rejection of Victorian femininity, narrow-minded visions of beauty, and conventional ideas of family, and this defiance extended into her politics.
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The fascinatingly pungent " Dietland ," on AMC, is set in a similar landscape of unreality, but it's a jagged original, treating femininity itself as the dystopian environment.
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Harrison Atkins, who wrote and directed the film, elaborated: "Lace is this word associated with traditional femininity that has to do with sexual shame," he said.
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That attention to detail shows in each of the brand's well-crafted styles, many of which belie a certain understated femininity despite the masculine-inspired tailoring.
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She wasn't always Barbie-doll pretty, and it took a lot of work for her to remake herself into some kind of retrograde vision of femininity.
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" Judith Kegan Gardiner, a former colleague at the University of Illinois, said Professor Bartky had "inspired generations of feminist philosophers to understand oppression, femininity and domination.
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She notes with dismay how entranced Stefánie is with the rites and aesthetics of femininity: She obsesses over clothing and cosmetics; she delights in male attentiveness.
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But the dominant narrative is that she was birthed by Haumea, the goddess of femininity and childbirth in Hawaiian lore, in Kahiki—today known as Tahiti.
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It just so happens to be the same defense I employed for years, downplaying my high-functioning autism and femininity in the hopes of fitting in.
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Philomene first began exploring the differences and similarities of masculinity and femininity when they were discovering their own gender identity as a college student in 2011.
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