Meaning of immasculate | Babel Free

Definitions

To make into a man; to make manly, or cause to have a male perspective.

especially, transitive

Examples

“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 […]”

“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 discouragingly traditional (i.e., misogynist) in Foucault or[…]”

“.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.”

“By definition, she [a female reader] cannot resist⟳ this danger as herself, as a woman, because as a creature of the flesh she is the danger, but only by renouncing her nature as a woman, remaining a virgin, and identifying herself with male spirit. Such a woman, according to Saint Jerome, is virile in her virtue, as good as a man. 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.”

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