(1) Finally, the narrator's descriptions of her ‘eye pits, [her] full set of teeth… [and] sour breath’ not only defeminize her but also dehumanize her.(2) However, the role of the heroine still differs from that of the hero; the role does not defeminize women but gives them depth as characters.(3) Most notably, she is not defeminized by her intelligence.(4) As I stand before the mirror looking at an image of a woman so defeminised by a black pinstripe suit, a familiar conversation came to mind.(5) Hormones that leak into streams from cattle feedlots are altering the sexual characteristics of wild fish, demasculinising the males and defeminising the females, according to a study.(6) He had my head shaved and defeminised me.(7) It was carried out with considerable brutality and impersonality, where the victims were publicly defeminised and destroyed.(8) When she is defeminised , she has only the strength she gives herself.(9) Note the language she uses - for example she talks about defeminising herself.(10) May is defeminized when she occupies those positions and/or performs functions already performed by men.(11) Women's participation was initially resisted on the grounds that women would be ‘harmed by competition or defeminised by training’.(12) Margery seems defeminised , too: her experience of womanhood feels very much an outsider's view.(13) The poor working-class criminal takes on an exaggerated animal status as brute while the female offender is defeminised as ‘mad’.
