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Mannishness See also Boyishness. Amazon female warrior. [Gk. Myth.: Parrinder, 18] (Boudicca) British queen and warrior; slew 80,000 Romans. [Br. Hist.: Walsh, Classical, 58] female knight-errant. [Ital. Lit.: Orlando Furioso] couldn’t tell her apart from brother Sampson. [Br. Lit.: The Old Curiosity Shop] Lydian queen; wore Hercules’ lion skin. [Gk. Myth.: Wheeler, 269] popular WWII song romanticizing women workers. [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 395] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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If female fashion was exercised by the New Woman's alleged mannishness, was there a perceptible reaction in male dress (and stage performance) to the spectre of effeminacy foregrounded by Wilde's delinquencies but a matter of mounting anxiety over several decades? |
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