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masculine

[′mas·kyə·lən]

(biology)

Having an appearance or qualities distinctive for a male.

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Thus, from a linguistic perspective, young female characters are portrayed more masculinely in ladies manga magazines than in shojo manga magazines.

Shojo and adult women: a linguistic analysis of gender identity in manga (Japanese comics)

not dress too femininely; (3) dress very masculinely.

Intersectionality as "catch 22": why identity performance demands are neither harmless nor reasonable

For example, female employees told they are behaving too masculinely (or males told they are behaving too femininely).

Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide

Katherine Kearns derided Edna as somebody who "systematically nullifies herself as she nullifies others in her search for the masculinely defined grail.

The reawakening: Kate Chopin and the wages of liberation

Masculinely attired women were the targets of more than one early modern pamphleteer, who viewed the practice as dangerous to the social order.

Wife and window in Arcadia: re-envisioning the ideal

As Glenn Hendler, author of Sentimental Men: Masculinity and the Politics of Affect in American Culture, put it to Naomi Wax: "The meaning of a man's display of emotions depends a great deal on how he has performed masculinely in the past.