Sentence examples for ideas of femininity from inspiring English sources

Why not reclaim cultural ideas of femininity and control them?

At Cambridge, she wrote her dissertation on Carson McCullers and her break from ideas of femininity formed in and by the antebellum South.

The film draws an affectionate portrait of a community, one so close everyone knows everyone else's 'business', and dramatizes the longings, disappointments and achievements of a teenager whose ideas of femininity are less traditional than most.

Yet, ideas of femininity and sporting culture have changed drastically over the past 30 years, said Jay Coakley, a sports sociologist at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

They were both defined by emerging neo-Victorian ideas about women; and they both tactically deployed traditional ideas of femininity, so often used against them, to reach the pinnacle of male-dominated professions.

It's easy to have a tongue in (ahem) cheek approach to looking at this needlework, but the fascinated and often aggressive reactions to Cole's choice say a lot about contemporary society, celebrity and ideas of femininity.

It's the idea of "femininity" that needs a rethink, not sport.

Instead of providing an empowering alternative to our popular culture's idea of femininity, this "bawdy" comedian has succumbed to the self-scrutiny and dissatisfaction that affects so many women and girls.

She is, in other words, the unruly woman, the woman of glorious excess who, with her sharp, funny tongue and expansive physicality dominates the screen and her male co-stars, often by playing off an idea of femininity.

Jackie Clune, singer and comedian, said: "What a brilliant day she has chosen: Valentine's Day, when the world is marking a romantic idea of femininity that has got nothing to do with reality for many women".

Everything about the Audrey is calculated to match up with 3Com's idea of femininity, right down to its flower logo and the all-lowercase letters painted on the keys.