...femininity. For the two of them, same-sex desire is simply the most irrepressible form of a more complete gender variance, as they try to survive in a heterosexist system that...
...critics cannot see. Boucher complicates public femininity by reaching for alien extremes in both voice and appearance. Pop music criticism has long been occupied by men who identify with male...
...certain kind of youthful femininity’s power, and the particular sort of man it tends to have power over. Using the sort of power that brought Britney fame necessarily calls forth...
...licentiousness, particularly when attached to female bodies: Pendulous breasts and ample thighs become emblems of wantonness. These fleshy appendages were often perilously combined with commodities associated with (bourgeois) femininity as...
...Day of the Year At Duke, we called that "effortless perfection": “Oh, great, so I have to be smart and still meet all the demands of conventional femininity, too?” How...
...beauty standard overall. But if there were writers before 2012 who were overwhelmingly devoting their energies to comprehensive critiques of beauty—makeup, hair, the accoutrements of femininity, and why we choose...
...have Mary Elizabeth Williams (with whom I've previously disagreed about short hair) to lucidly articulate why a crop needn't be a "call for help": "Long hair represents femininity and vulnerability...
...I just read Violence which is the first in the series and a conversation between Vanessa Veselka and Lidia Yuknavitch about violence and femininity in literature, and I can't think...
...of being.” This woman-who-is-not-actually-a-woman, this construct, is the real femininity toward which all the biological females in the film are striving. In an age of avatars and digitally altered profile...
...idealized femininity hits them so early on that by the time they reach puberty, the best we can do is damage control. We spin it that way for a reason—it’s...
...a statistical analysis of quantitative data, she believed that her argument was more convincing—more truthful—than scientific claims based on poetic ideas of femininity or women’s inherent frailty. For Jacobi, and...
...masculinity and the housekeeping roles essential to science with femininity. As Clark’s history reveals, despite these limitations, women assistants were very good at their jobs, leveraging their expertise to circumscribed...
...putting on makeup. It’s these small acts of emotional beauty labor—say, walking the line between the gracious and obsequious in receiving compliments, using femininity to command attention but keep it...
...femininity—I mean, there's a reason gay men used to be called "fruits," and you'd be hard-pressed to find fruit notes in most men's fragrances. And now that's making me wonder...
...and inventor.” Science Museum Group Journal 10 (Autumn 2018). Claire G. Jones. Femininity, Mathematics and Science, 1880-1914 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). Patricia Para. A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage...
...agree with every word she's saying here but she succinctly breaks down the dangers of posing the performance of traditional femininity as subversive for its own sake, and also lays...