Sentences with phrase «called womanly»

Often the emphasis has been on superficial connections to so - called womanly crafts (weaving) and «female» qualities (ephermeralness, fragility) or, dogmatically, on the difference of the feminine sexual perspective.

Not exact matches

Teenage girls and women face enough double standards as they get older, made to feel ashamed for how they interact with men or dealing with ridiculous rules like not being able to lunch alone with male colleagues, because of their so - called «womanly wiles.»

For the length of the «lying in» period, as it was called, the new mother would rest, regain her strength, and bond with the baby as her womanly attendants kept up the household.

Call the Lactation Institute for more information on the M - S - S technique (818/995 -1913), or read about it in the sixth edition of their book, The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding.

The first time I heard my sweetie call my body womanly I cried.

Nearly two years later, Molly is still the person I call when I need some advice about a weird rash my kid has, or what immunizations I should give her, or when I have some weird womanly ailment.

What do you call someone who acts and looks masculine, thinks girliness is stupid and lame, likes to hang out with manly people and do manly things but still likes to have sex with those «inferior» womanly women?

Vikander's innocent qualities play well for the first half - hour, less so later when the script calls for womanly depth and not dewy girlishness.

Rational tolerance, womanly solidarity and a little old thing called love also add meaning and emotion.

But being like a girl (or womanly or girlish or feminine, whatever you want to call it) is something you definitely have to learn.