Effeminacy
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Effeminacy or male femininity is the embodiment of feminine traits in boys or men, particularly those considered untypical of men or masculinity. These traits include roles, stereotypes, behaviors, an
The Younger Apollo Teaching Hyacinth to Play Lyra by Louis de Boullogne
In Virgil's tale of the two young lovers, Nisus and Euryalus, Euryalus was "beautiful" and had a close relationship with his mother, while Nisus was fast and skilled with weaponry.
Tomboy
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A tomboy is a girl or young woman who exhibits behaviors and traits typically associated with boys or men in a given culture, such as wearing androgynous or unfeminine clothing and engaging in activit
Effeminacy
…effetus meaning 'having given birth; exhausted', from ex- and fetus 'offspring'. The term tomgirl, meaning a girlish boy, comes from an inversion of tomboy, meaning a boyish girl. The term girly boy comes from a gender-inversion of girly girl. Greek historian Plutarch recounts that Periander, the tyrant…
Tomboy
The Tomboy, 1873 painting by John George Brown
The army recruited men for the American Civil War, leaving the women behind to take care of the "left duties of men."
Feminist Suffrage Parade in New York City, 1912