immasculate
immasculate verb: to make into a man; to make manly, or cause to have a male perspective.
Verb
immasculate (third-person singular simple present immasculates, present participle immasculating, simple past and past participle immasculated)
- To make into a man; to make manly, or cause to have a male perspective.
- A larger number of plays than novels seem not to immasculate the female reader in the precise way Fetterley articulates. After having made my choices, I realized that the male-written plays analyzed in this book are all written by heterosexual-identified playwrights […]1990, Gayle Austin, Feminist Theories for Dramatic Criticism, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 37
- His seminal readings of eighteenth-century all-male environments such as prisons and boys' schools have tended to "immasculate" the asylum, the clinic, and the confessional as well. Related is the question of whether this de fact androcentrism derives from something subversively queer or...2007 May 14, J. Foertsch, Conflict and Counterpoint in Lesbian, Gay, and Feminist Studies, Springer, →ISBN, page 90
Examples of immasculate in a sentence
- His seminal readings of eighteenth-century all-male environments such as prisons and boys' schools have tended to "immasculate" the asylum, the clinic, and the confessional as well.2007 May 14, J. Foertsch, Conflict and Counterpoint in Lesbian, Gay, and Feminist Studies, Springer, →ISBN, page 90:
- .The concept of 'reading as a woman' (Culler 1982) permits entry into women-centred text that, unlike male-centred mainstream works, does not immasculate women.2013 November 5, Miriam Catterall, Pauline Maclaran, Lorna Stevens, Marketing and Feminism: Current issues and research, Routledge, →ISBN...
- If the Power of Women topos in "Ad Virgines" addresses women at all, it appeals to their potential to identify with men and as men, to "immasculate” themselves, in Judith Fetterley's term.2016 November 11, Susan L. Smith, The Power of Women: A "Topos" in Medieval Art and Literature, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN...
Forms of immasculate
| third-person singular present | immasculates |
|---|---|
| present participle | immasculating |
| past participle | immasculated |
| past | immasculated |
Origin of immasculate
The verb was coined by Judith Fetterley in 1978; compare effeminate (verb); contrast emasculate.
Questions about immasculate
- What does immasculate mean?
- Immasculate means to make into a man; to make manly, or cause to have a male perspective.
- How do you use immasculate in a sentence?
- His seminal readings of eighteenth-century all-male environments such as prisons and boys' schools have tended to "immasculate" the asylum, the clinic, and the confessional as well.
- What part of speech is immasculate?
- Immasculate is a verb.
- What is the past tense of immasculate?
- The past tense of immasculate is immasculated.
Words near immasculate in the dictionary
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