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femininity
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Research
6,829 papers- Femininity in the 21st century.ReviewCurrent opinion in psychology · 2023Evans ADOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101502
- "Femininity? It's the Aesthetic of Subordination": Examining Femmephobia, the Gender Binary, and Experiences of Oppression Among Sexual and Gender Minorities.ReviewArchives of sexual behavior · 2020Hoskin RADOI: 10.1007/s10508-020-01641-x
- Masculinity, femininity, and leadership: Taking a closer look at the alpha female.ReviewPloS one · 2019Sumra MKDOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0215181
- Women, Femininity, Indirect and Direct Self-Destructiveness. A Review.ReviewThe Psychiatric quarterly · 2018Tsirigotis KDOI: 10.1007/s11126-017-9545-4
- Acoustic cues to femininity and masculinity in spontaneous speech.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2024Nylén F, Holmberg J, Södersten MDOI: 10.1121/10.0025932
- Psychological Femininity and Masculinity and Motivation in Team Sports.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Bojkowski ŁDOI: 10.3390/ijerph192315767
- Further explorations into the complexities of femininity and masculinity.The International journal of psycho-analysis · 2024Miller PDOI: 10.1080/00207578.2025.2429311
- Statistical indices of masculinity-femininity: A theoretical and practical framework.Behavior research methods · 2024Del Giudice MDOI: 10.3758/s13428-024-02369-5
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19 sectionsContents
- Overview and history
- Behavior and personality
- Clothing and appearance
- In history
- Body alteration
- Traditional roles
- Explanations for occupational imbalance
- Role congruity theory
- Religion and politics
- Asian religions
- Abrahamic theology
- Communism
- In intersex people
- In men
- In transgender people
- Feminist views
- See also
- References
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thumb|Venus with a Mirror ( 1555) by [[Titian, showing the goddess Venus as the personification of femininity|265x265px]]
Femininity (also called womanliness) is a set of attributes, behaviors, and roles generally associated with women and girls. Femininity can be understood as socially constructed, and there is also some evidence that some behaviors considered feminine are influenced by both cultural factors and biological factors. To what extent femininity is biologically or socially influenced is subject to debate. It is conceptually distinct from both the female biological sex and from womanhood, as all humans can exhibit feminine and masculine traits, regardless of sex and gender.