Definition of "masculinization" [masculinization]

• The act of making masculine. (noun)

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• "We do not see the birth of God as much as the genesis of a certain masculinization of desire, the harnessing or transformation of (feminized) longing into the dialectical work of (masculine) self-consciousness, or what Hegel calls, in the Phenomenology, "Desire in general" (para."
• "At one extreme, some authorities, like Marynia Farnham and Ferdinand Lundberg, decried the "masculinization" of women, and mothers 'neglect of children during the war, urging a return to feminine domesticity."
• "Today's high cesarean rates are due in part to the "masculinization" of birth environments, he added."