immasculate

verb

Etymology

The verb was coined by Judith Fetterley in 1978; compare effeminate (verb); contrast emasculate.

Definitions

  1. 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

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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