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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
desexualize .
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Examples
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If she wears a power pantsuit, it's a 'desexualized uniform,' but if she shows a hint of cleavage -- as she famously did in 2007 -- it can ignite a media firestorm that eclipses her political platform.
Odelia Kaly: If The Clothes Fit Odelia Kaly 2012
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If she wears a power pantsuit, it's a 'desexualized uniform,' but if she shows a hint of cleavage -- as she famously did in 2007 -- it can ignite a media firestorm that eclipses her political platform.
Odelia Kaly: If The Clothes Fit Odelia Kaly 2012
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If she wears a power pantsuit, it's a 'desexualized uniform,' but if she shows a hint of cleavage -- as she famously did in 2007 -- it can ignite a media firestorm that eclipses her political platform.
Odelia Kaly: If The Clothes Fit Odelia Kaly 2012
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If she wears a power pantsuit, it's a 'desexualized uniform,' but if she shows a hint of cleavage -- as she famously did in 2007 -- it can ignite a media firestorm that eclipses her political platform.
Odelia Kaly: If The Clothes Fit Odelia Kaly 2012
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If she wears a power pantsuit, it's a 'desexualized uniform,' but if she shows a hint of cleavage -- as she famously did in 2007 -- it can ignite a media firestorm that eclipses her political platform.
Odelia Kaly: If The Clothes Fit Odelia Kaly 2012
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If she wears a power pantsuit, it's a 'desexualized uniform,' but if she shows a hint of cleavage -- as she famously did in 2007 -- it can ignite a media firestorm that eclipses her political platform.
Odelia Kaly: If The Clothes Fit Odelia Kaly 2012
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The estate authorized the creation of this slightly desexualized version in order to (a) make money and (b) promote awareness of sex ed etc.
Archive 2009-02-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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American actresses have desexualized themselves, confusing sterile athleticism with female power.
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American actresses have desexualized themselves, confusing sterile athleticism with female power.
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No faces or figures make it into the frame, presenting the sort of fragmentary view of the female body that in most any other context would constitute blatant objectification but here reads as a desexualized, intensely vulnerable collage of femininity.
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