femininity

Nancy: Coming into it, people were like, “How do you maintain your femininity and still strut around with a big rock guitar?”

For Emilia, it was about achieving a natural femininity, something maternal, without overplaying the transformation.

She does not perform femininity on any level, and yet she continues to stubbornly exist.

"In all this talk of femininity and women's role," she writes, "one forgets that the real business of America is business."

Women never had been allowed to run farther than 1,500 meters in the Olympics because the Games’ all-male guardians long harbored antiquated views of femininity and what the female body could do.