defeminized

MARSHALL: Because I think what happened -- the whole mustache drawing thing, that Rosie and her friend went around and kind of defeminized Elisabeth.

CNN Transcript May 25, 2007 2007

Bill defeminized her and now she wants to emasculate him by making him First Lady.

Nell Scovell: Hillary’s Family Values: Nell Scovell Scovell, Nell 2008

What did you think of Chinna, the woman who is defeminized and ostracized because her mate died too soon?

Tamarind Woman by Anita Rau Badami: Questions 2002

No doubt to introduce quantitative determination into an undetermined object would annul the original state; but in the particular case, the introduction of determination only confirms the original state, bringing it into actuality, into full effect, as sowing brings out the natural quality of land or as a female organism impregnated by the male is not defeminized but becomes more decidedly of its sex; the thing becomes more emphatically itself.

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

"I was shocked after my mother's mastectomy about how medicalized, defeminized and desexualized breasts are in our culture," said Bailey.

StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

And the fact remains that men are emasculated by being fired as is evidenced every time one is interviewed about unemployment, while women, far more flexible about work -- even in high level jobs -- frequently re-invent themselves when let go, rather than moping about being "defeminized.")

Lisa Solod Warren: Who is Kidding Whom? The Shriver Report on Women 2009

Erica’s decor was still in place, but subtly defeminized; the vases of flowers were gone, the pictures of dreamy country lanes had been replaced by starkly grim Hogarth etchings, and red kid had replaced sage green kid on the padded furniture.

TOO MANY MURDERS Colleen McCullough 2009

I have in my mind a case of a well-known writer, a man of the highest type in every respect, well worth enlisting in the army that fights for womanhood to-day, whose organic repugnance to the defeminized woman is so intense, and whose perception of the distinctive characters of real womanhood and of their supreme excellence is so acute that, so far from aiding the cause of, for instance, woman's suffrage, he is one of its most bitter and unremitting enemies.

Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles 1909

But, secondly, those women and men who assert the doctrine of the identity of the sexes are led to err, not because it can really be hidden from the most casual observer that there is a profound distinction between the sexes, apart from the case of the defeminized woman -- but because, by a surprising fallacy, they confuse the doctrine of sex-equality with that of sex-identity; or, rather, they believe that only by demonstrating the doctrine that the sexes are substantially identical, can they make good their plea that the sexes should be regarded as equal.

Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles 1909