10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WOMANISHNESS»
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womanishness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
womanishness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
This same commutability of womanishness and manliness is also the ultiInate
basis for the possibility of Socrates' proposals concerning women in the Republic
. For Plato and his contemporaries the set of characteristics and attributes that ...
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Moral Vision in the Histories of Polybius
Polybius's comment is that “no one could surpass him in unmanliness or
womanishness, or in servile flattery” (dvav6piag . . . Kai yovauctouoir, ibid.). He
adds that during later talks with the Senate, Prusias did things that it would be
improper ...
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The Zora Neale Hurston Forum: Official Publication of the ...
To preclude any eruption of "womanishness," the narrator's mother admonishes
her," You mus' see but don' talk!'. . .'See but don' talk! Don' put yuh mouf in big
people business!" (77) Such social prescriptives of silence for young women ...
FOREWORD We often hear the word "womanishness." What is the true meaning
of it? Generally, women have a stronger feeling of service for others than men
and find greater joy in that. They have delicate and sincere sentiments and pay ...
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Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800
At the supreme moment of womanishness he becomes again his male self, as if a
circle has been completed. He has gone through womanishness, and as there is
no "third sex," returns to his proper gender — but not forgetting what he has ...
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The Foreign Quarterly Review
They required to have their palate tickled by hidden allusions to the glories of the
empire, the old-womanishness of the Bourbons, the hypocrisy of priests, and the
tyranny of prefects. Berenger, with his pointed yet covered satire on all these ...
'But seriously,' he added with earnestness of manner, 'let go womanishness now
and tell me truly how you can object to my affording temporary shelter to such a
forlorn creature.' 'Forlorn creature!' returned Champak. 'Why, if she has done ill, ...
Bankim Chandra Chatterji, 2010
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Masculinities, Childhood, Violence: Attending to Early ...
Cowardice, prodigality, licentiousness, libertinism, brutishness, rusticity,
dishonesty, and idleness were all invoked to stake out patriarchal ideals, besides
“womanishness” and effeminacy—which was itself defined principally in terms of
...
Amy E. Leonard, Karen L. Nelson, 2011
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Conflicted Identities and Multiple Masculinities: Men in the ...
are identified with the feminine, then achieving manhood must mean triumphing
over womanishness. The process of initiation for young men often, if not always,
involves the creation of a binary opposition between masculinity and femininity.
Marcius, straightforward and direct, and possessed with the idea that to vanquish
and overbear all opposition, is the true part of bravery ; and never imagining that
it was the weakness and womanishness of his nature, that broke out, so to say, ...
Plutarch, John Dryden, Arthur Hugh Clough, 1859
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WOMANISHNESS»
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womanishness is used in the context of the following news items.
'Game of Thrones' Recap: Second Sons
And what Randyll Tarly hated in his son was what he perceived as Sam's womanishness, his preference for books and music over blood. Wanting to hardness ... «ThinkProgress, May 13»
'Game of Thrones' Is Better In Its Second Season—Particularly For …
In the novels, Sam's supposed womanishness is one of the reasons he was cast off from his family to take the black. The show goes farther than the novels in ... «ThinkProgress, Mar 12»
