| 单词 | female eunuch |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfemale eunuch female eunuch n. (in and with reference to the writing of Germaine Greer) the type of a woman considered in terms of the repression of her sexuality and personality in a male-dominated society; (also) a woman of this type. ΚΠ 1970 G. Greer Female Eunuch 68 It is exactly the element of quest in her sexuality that the female is taught to deny.., so that when she becomes aware of her sex the pattern has sufficient force of inertia to prevail over new forms of desire and curiosity. This is the condition which is meant by the term female eunuch. 1976 Mother Jones Dec. 27/1 We are now in the process of changing our image from that of the ‘Female Eunuch’ to the ‘Phallic Woman’. 1987 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 3 Dec. 12 If Germaine Greer had time..to glance through the Sydney papers she would have realised that the female eunuch is alive and well and living inside the glossy advertisement pages. 2010 D. Phothgarde Caribbean Cruise viii. 103 Should she become too friendly with any of the male sex, her feminist fanaticism might subside and she would degenerate into a female eunuch. < as lemmas |
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