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female noun female being, female gender, female sex, gender, girl, her, herself, lady, miss, mrs., ms., she, woman
Associated concepts: women's rights
Foreign phrases: Feme, Femme.A woman. Feme covert. Amarried woman. Feme sole. A single woman.


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At the core of the debate, really, is gender identity--a person's own sense of maleness and femaleness.
She preferred instead to throw out the idea of femaleness and see what happens when artists present female-centric works.
Thus, research is inherently feminist "when matters of femaleness and maleness and the differences and dominations between and within them are made a central feature of analysis, and, secondly, when analysis implies a challenge of some sort to any inequitable relationships of power which involve gender or sexuality" (Kenway, Willis, Blackmore, & Rennie, 1994, p.
 
 
 
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