immasculate
verbEtymology
The verb was coined by Judith Fetterley in 1978; compare effeminate (verb); contrast emasculate.
Definitions
To make into a man
To make into a man; to make manly, or cause to have a male perspective.
- .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.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for immasculate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA