Sentence examples for defining female from inspiring English sources

Throughout the history of modern popular culture we've gone in and out of defining female intelligence in terms of intuitive displays.

The distinguishing factor of the play's defining female role, Lady Gay Spanker, is that she seems the most masculine person on stage, a task duly filled by Fiona Shaw, a performer whose long association with tragedy is here upturned.

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.

The WHO, UNICEF and UNFPA issued a joint statement in April 1997 defining female genital mutilation as "all procedures involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs whether for cultural or other non-therapeutic reasons".

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.

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.

A woman like Pamela Anderson, who to many defines female sexuality, resembles a "Twilight Zone" fembot even after she has had her breast implants removed.

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.

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.