"You can be in control of cross-dressing or it can be in control of you," Doyle says during a recent consultation. "Elaine" (not her real femme name) is what Doyle calls a "serious" cross-dresser: A ...

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Depictions of control, containment and domestication in art appear in whimsical, colorful paintings by Colleen Francis Smith, whose work explores these themes in connection to femininity and womanhood ...

Toxic femininity is a form of internalized misogyny that involves restricting yourself to stereotypically “feminine” behaviors in order to appeal to men. It’s more common than you might think. Perhaps ...

What are the first words that come to mind when trying to describe femininity? Chances are that many of the words that surface hold negative connotations: fragile, weak, delicate, frivolous, ...

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We live in a complex world, yet we want to divide people into two genders. We expect men to be masculine and women to be feminine. With modern psychology, we have learned that we have both within us.

Over the course of the last century, Western beauty ideals – thinness, light skin, large breasts, large eyes, a small nose and high cheekbones – have seeped into countries and cultures around the ...