demasculinizing

de·mas·cu·lin·iz·ing

(dē-mas'kyū-lin-īz'ing),

Depriving of male characteristics or inhibiting development of such characteristics.

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What I argue in favour of both Transvestism and transcendence engages the man demasculinizing or demasculinized.

A Study of the Transvestite(s) Demasculinized in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "The Princess"

This obsession with demasculinizing the language reflects the nonsensical idea that the sexes should be treated identically, which no one actually believes (should we eliminate women's sports?).

Tongues twisted left: manipulating minds by managing words

The cast members credit Bier not only with demasculinizing the traditional spy story but with pushing them to deliver truthful performances.

Spy games

These authors observed that arachidonic acid (AA), a precursor of prostaglandins, can reverse the demasculinizing effects of the estrogen receptor agonist estradiol and the androgen receptor antagonist cyproterone during days 11-14 of gestation, the period during which sex differentiation takes place in mice.

Effects of common pesticides on prostaglandin D2 (PGD2) inhibition in SC5 mouse Sertoli cells, evidence of binding at the COX-2 active site, and implications for endocrine disruption

Nurys Silva goes on to say that supporters employ these symbolic forms of aggression as a means of demasculinizing adversaries (17).

Um bando de louco: Corinthians and masculinity in Boleiros and Linha de passe

This past year, Hayes gathered 21 coauthors for a paper in the Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology showing that atrazine disrupts normal hormonal function, with demasculinizing effects on male gonads in reptiles, fish, amphibians, and mammals.

The frog of war: when biologist Tyrone B. Hayes discovered that a top-selling herbicide messes with sex hormones, its manufacturer went into battle mode. Thus began one of the weirdest feuds in the history of science

Lab studies by Tyrone Hayes of the University of California, Berkeley show that the types of gross demasculinizing changes reported in the new study would make animals sterile.

Feminization blamed on farming: agricultural chemicals suspected in cane toad troubles

In lab studies by Tyrone Hayes of the University of California, Berkeley, the types of gross demasculinizing changes reported in the new study would make animals sterile, Hayes says.

Farm life turns male toads female

Three preferred a female interviewer and expressed their reluctance to discuss male body image issues with another male, as it would be viewed as demasculinizing and potentially embarrassing.

Male voices on body image

As Byron wrote, himself demasculinizing a blood-bedabbled Tory, would Milton have obeyed that 'intellectual eunuch Castlereagh'?

British Poetry and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: Vision and Conflict

For example, in order to read her work we must recognize that Valentine "has thinned connective passages and omitted logical connections in her poetry" (76) whereas Tate's work "actively upends identities....The actual work of the poems in their demasculinizing of male characters and caricaturing of heterosexual desires, in the voicing of need, weakness, and contingency, boldly counters patriarchal posturings of expertise" (98).

On Teaching Poetry

His vulnerability to Beloved indicates that the "talking cure" could not reach his red heart, perhaps because locked away there are the demasculinizing experi ences that hamper romantic remembering.