Example sentences for: masculinity

How can you use “masculinity” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A masculinity associated with violence, self-centeredness, chauvinism, or alcoholism is not a macho concept recognized by most Chicanos.

  • Susan Faludi's Stiffed argues American men are suffering from a masculinity crisis, but it isn't women's fault.

  • Elsewhere, Ross refers to her lover's "very powerful masculinity," only to note on the very next page that "if he suffered a paper cut on a finger and saw blood, he would come into my office, looking pale."

  • Macho literally means “male,” and machismo is the concept of “maleness,” but in American culture it has come to mean an exaggerated masculinity.

  • Above all, while she rejects the notion that the crisis of utilitarian masculinity in the workplace has resulted from the gains middle-class women workers have made in the last generation, she also shows that many women employees have been insensitive to the confusions of self that the new economy has bred in men.


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