A fairly conventional femininity has imbued me – at least at first glance – with heterosexual privilege, even though I'm partnered to a woman.
Don't I owe him a bit of conventional femininity in return?
When a young Romeo asks why Juliet isn't wearing a dress, mini Juliet -- who is wearing overalls -- replies: "Conventional femininity is a choice, not a mandate.
When she began drag at 18, she was preoccupied with projecting a sense of "realness," or conventional femininity.
Having been hospitalised after a suicide attempt, Esther has an epiphany about the way that conventional femininity was trapping all the women like her: "What was there about us, in Belsize [Hospital], so different from the girls playing bridge and gossiping and studying in the college to which I would return?
Since childhood, McCain has been expected to embody certain pillars of conventional femininity: beauty, refinement, altruism, and an inclination to encourage the ambitious men in her life.
As boldly as Lydia Lunch or Karen Finley, Susann threw off the restraints of conventional femininity, and she started young.
She overcompensates in her effort to look proper; she borrows the most obvious references to conventional femininity.
There are other obvious bits, too, like Monica's clumsiness in heels and with other aspects of conventional femininity.
What bothered me at the premiere, however, was the dismaying way their oddity had been ironed out into conventional femininity.
