Sentence examples for define female from inspiring English sources
Similarly, there was outrage when authors Toby Litt and Ali Smith seemed to define female literary preoccupations in their introduction to 13, a collection of poetry, stories and extracts.
In 1979, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar published The Madwoman in the Attic, a feminist exploration of Victorian literature, in which they claimed that male writers had traditionally tended to define female characters as either the "angel" (pure, meek and submissive) or the "monster" (a woman who was sensual, rebellious, unkempt and untethered).
Her paper, Step Your Pussy Up: Nicki Minaj and the Signifyin(g) Tropes of Hardcore Female Rap, explains: "The female body is rarely a site of empowerment except when it is being objectified to define female strength through heterosexist sexiness, which, displayed for male satisfaction, creates little real power for women.
According to Kilbourne, who has studied advertising since the '70s, Dove was -- and still is -- one of the only mainstream advertisers talking about how we define female beauty.
We define females in the interrupted (n) mating group as controls and those allowed an additional (n+1) mating as experimental females.
He defined female life in terms of motherhood, or the failure to become a mother.
She defined female relations with the opposite sex as a form of collaboration.
Tough, disciplined, splendidly "couldn't give a rat's" about her broad accent and gravel-meets-steel voice, she gives the finger to the things that have, for so long – too long – defined female leaders.
After the youngest left home, she had 20 or so years, starting around age 50, in which she was free of the primary obligations that had defined female existence for thousands of years.
Third, radical and lesbian feminists began to analyze heterosexuality as a culturally and historically shaped institution that oppressed women, in part by defining female erotic experience in terms of men's fantasies and needs.
But by defining female veterans by their victimhood, we leave out a crucial part of their service: their valor.
