epicene

However persistently the epicene theorists of modern times may deny it, it is nevertheless a truth plainly visible in the whole past history of the sexes that the natural condition of a woman is to find her master in a man.

But in so doing, he also elevated himself to something approaching their level: a celebrity artist, a bewigged epicene whose mere signature elevated a mass-produced screenprint of somebody else's imagery into high art.

Using de Certeau's concept of 'tactics', or acts of resistance, chapter three considers how characters in Middleton and Dekker's The Roaring Girl and Jonson's Epicene assert freedom from and within urban spaces.

NB: I use the singular epicene pronoun "they" and its derivatives throughout.

A storied, idealizing dialectic of "fair and dark ladies" in the national literature, laid out by critic Leslie Fielder in Love & Death in the American Novel (1960), was weirdly synthesized in this white-skinned, blackhaired, all but blackhearted girl with epicene habits.

If we didn't make such a fuss about the epicene, the masculine pronoun would just blend in and disappear: the invisible he.

Faustine is portrayed as "epicene" (Swinburne 130):

However, when the words are used on the humanspecific level, and--even more intriguingly--irrespective of the gender factor (feminine, masculine, neuter), they are automatically pejoratively loaded, no matter if applied to male, female or epicene terms (e.g.

Looking back I can see that there was a rich seam amongst the 'e's with effrontery, effete, epicene, effulgence and (quite nearby) grummet all featuring in one section.