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- noun The act of making
masculine .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the abnormal development of male sexual characteristics in a female (usually as the result of hormone therapies or adrenal malfunction)
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Examples
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We do not see the birth of God as much as the genesis of a certain masculinization of desire, the harnessing or transformation of (feminized) longing into the dialectical work of (masculine) self-consciousness, or what Hegel calls, in the Phenomenology, "Desire in general" (para.
Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy 2000
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At one extreme, some authorities, like Marynia Farnham and Ferdinand Lundberg, decried the "masculinization" of women, and mothers 'neglect of children during the war, urging a return to feminine domesticity.
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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Today's high cesarean rates are due in part to the "masculinization" of birth environments, he added.
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Today's high cesarean rates are due in part to the "masculinization" of birth environments, he added.
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Nimkarn and New continue: "We anticipate that prenatal dexamethasone therapy will reduce the well-documented behavioral masculinization ..."
Alex Blaze: The Sad Lengths Some Go to Avoid Having a Lesbian Daughter 2010
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- Males inflicted with addiction and alcoholism (prior to masculinization of women) - Males (and blacks) celebrate "cool" and sex; similarities a clue which demands attention
Letter Two Newmania 2008
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Although the National Health Service in Great Britain has paid for gender reassignment surgery for transsexuals since 1999, at a cost of approximately £10,000 per procedure, precisely how much masculinization or feminization should be funded by the taxpayers remains a matter of ongoing controversy.
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However there IS an alternative:::: Assimilate through a process of masculinization.
Letter Two Newmania 2008
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Although she and her colleagues claim they are trying to stop a congenital condition, the papers they write indicate they are also making sure girls are not subject to "behavioral masculinization."
Marcia Reynolds: Who Decides What It Means to Be a Woman? 2010
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It's not approved for use by pregnant women, it doesn't cure CAH so much as reduce some of the masculinization associated with it, and there are studies showing that it results in birth defects in animals.
Alex Blaze: The Sad Lengths Some Go to Avoid Having a Lesbian Daughter 2010
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