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	William Hazlitt's Essay, "On Effeminacy of Character."
		Effeminacy of character arises from a prevalence of the sensibility over the will; or it consists in a want of fortitude to bear pain or to undergo fatigue, however urgent the occasion.
		They deal in home truths, unpleasant reflections, and unwelcome matters of fact; as the others are all compliment and complaisance, insincerity and insipidity.
		We may observe an effeminacy of style, in some degree corresponding to effeminacy of character.
	www.blupete.com /Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/TableTalk/Effeminacy.htm (2837 words)

	SUMMA THEOLOGICA: The vices opposed to perseverance (Secunda Secundae Partis, Q. 138)
		It seems that effeminacy is not opposed to perseverance.
		Therefore effeminacy is not a vice opposed to perseverance.
		Therefore effeminacy is not opposed to perseverance but to temperance.
	www.newadvent.org /summa/3138.htm (997 words)

	Effeminato Amante?
		Since she goes on to suggest that he devote himself to the joys of women’s love rather than statecraft, she is obviously not suggesting what we nowadays think of as effeminacy, and indeed Tolomeo, if the libretto is to be trusted, seems quite heterosexual.
		Effeminacy, however, was imposed on him by the addition of two "super catamites," non-singing muscle boys and, by implication, male concubines, who crouched at his feet like tame leopards and posed provocatively whenever Tolomeo appeared.
		"Effeminacy," in consequence, was turned on its head, narrowed in definition to refer to the pursuit of one’s own sex -- and, presumably, in the passive role, with its ancient aura (however unrealistic) of assuming, of envying, femininity.
	parterre.com /effeminato.htm (3351 words)

	effeminate \| \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
		Effeminacy is a trait in males that generally contradicts traditional male (masculine) gender roles.
		Recently, however, a positive correlation can also be presumed between effeminacy and gay men who choose to reclaim the term as a positive description.
		In contrast to this historical interpretation, effeminacy is now seen by some to be simply one characteristic or trait which might be a part of a particular male's "gender role", and in this sense would not be considered a vice or indicative of any other characteristics.
	www.babylon.com /definition/effeminate/All (396 words)

	Wikinfo \| Classical definition of effeminacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Effeminacy (Greek: ανανδρια; μαλακια; Latin: mollites) is applied to men who have the quality of unmanliness, softness, or delicacy.
		From classical antiquity, this meaning of effeminacy passed into Christianity through the Bible and affected Western culture especially English and Victorian Culture.
		This was an appeal from King Croesus, the king of Lydia, a Greek city and people on the West coast of modern Turkey, to the Persian King.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Classical_definition_of_effeminacy (2175 words)

	Childhood experiences of homosexual men : Feeling different
		A history of gender identity pathology (including effeminacy and chronic, extreme unmasculinity) is much more common among men who are predominately or exclusively homosexual than among men who are predominately or exclusively heterosexual.
		According to Bieber, the function of effeminacy may be a declaration of nonaggressiveness, since the most effeminate gestures are confined and close to the body, in contrast to normal expansive male gestures.
		Moberly holds that effeminacy in the male homosexual results from a "defensive detachment from the parent of the same sex" which blocks the normal identificatory process.
	www.fathersforlife.org /dale/child4.html (3619 words)

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		Effeminacy usually stems from experiences in early childhood, and is more often tied to such family disorders as an absent parent, a domineering or over-protective mother, or a hostile or weak father.
		Therefore, effeminacy is deeply rooted in the personality, and is difficult to change totally.
		It is helpful to notice that the connection between effeminacy and homosexuality in males seems to be closer than that between homosexuality and feminization in males.
	www.cbmw.org /resources/books/clark/chapter23/chapter23footnotes.html (1238 words)

	Summa Theologica
		Objection 1: It seems that effeminacy is not opposed to perseverance.
		In one way, by custom: for where a man is accustomed to enjoy pleasures, it is more difficult for him to endure the lack of them.
		Reply to Objection 1: The reason why a man is too persistent in his own opinion, is that he wishes by this means to make a show of his own excellence: wherefore this is the result of vainglory as its cause.
	www.godrules.net /library/summa/SS138.htm (924 words)

	The Gideonse Bible: I'm sure you were wondering how Donnie Davies and Luce Irigaray could be synthesized...well, wonder ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Effeminacy, then, except when done deliberately as camp in the West, is an unconscious habitus-like movement, mimicry of “feminine” behavior.
		One of the projects of the original gay rights movement (not the current, mainstreaming assimilationist movement) was the de-tabooing of effeminacy and the deconstruction of the hostility to the effeminacy of gay men.
		Effeminacy is upsetting and taboo because it is a merging of female behavior with the male body.
	bible.gideonse.com /2007/01/im_sure_you_were_wondering_how.html (1103 words)

	Exodus International - Effeminate Men, Masculine Women
		Effeminacy in men and masculinity in women are without doubt associated with homosexuality.
		Interestingly, as much as effeminacy in men and masculinity in women is something we encounter regularly in our ministries, it is something rarely dealt with directly.
		A third reason that change might be in order -- and this too is a practical one -- is that effeminacy in men and masculinity in women can send signals that can draw to us the very people whom we do not need to be in relationship with.
	www.exodus.to /content/view/65/55 (1547 words)

	Café Q The evils of tea (and the virtues of beer)
		I view the tea drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frame, and engenderer of effeminacy and laziness, a debaucher of youth, and a maker of misery for old age.
		It must be evident to everyone, that the practice of tea drinking, must rended the frame feeble and unfit to encounter hard labour or severe weather, while, as I have shown, it deducts from the means of replenishing the belly and covering the back.
		The tea drinking fills the public-houses, makes the frequenting of it habitual, corrupts boys as soon they are able to move from home, and does little less for the girls, to whom the gossip of the tea-table is no bad preparatory school for the brothel.
	www.quite.com /misc/tea1.htm (1273 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Hickman, The Geometry of Modernism
		As the trials of Oscar Wilde brought both his perceived effeminacy and homosexuality before the public eye, marking them as scandalous, effeminacy came to be increasingly vilified, and the male Aesthete, a chief target for that vilification.
		It was Vorticism's anxious, reactive effort to battle the qualities associated with the category of effeminacy that brought together this coalition of desiderata: what Vorticism prized, then, was the obverse of the effeminate abject—or, to put it another way, the inverse of what was at the time regarded as the province of the male invert.
		Originally, then, the campaign at the root of Vorticism was fundamentally a campaign against effeminacy and the male Aesthete qua homosexual thought to be its locus classicus; later, the qualities celebrated by writers enlisting Vorticist values came to be detached from both the male Aesthete and effeminacy.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exhicgeo.html (8987 words)

	GENDER AND THE PHALLUS IN DIONYSIAN RELIGION
		This iconographic convention, along with the occasional reference to effeminacy or androgyny, has led to various theories seeking to drastically unman the god, as it were; some writers read into these details the idea that perhaps Dionysos himself was asexual (Jameson, 44), or even emasculated through castration (Kerenyi, 275-277, 285).
		In any case, taking the active role in a pederastic relationship was considered evidence of masculinity rather than effeminacy in ancient Greece; only the passive or subordinate partner was thought to be feminized by male homosexual relationships.
		The charge of effeminacy was not taken lightly in ancient Greece or Rome; there were social stigmas and sometimes civil penalties attached to the label.
	home.earthlink.net /~delia5/pagan/dio/tp99s-dnys-donnr.htm (4510 words)

	Lamb. Exhibiting class and displaying the body in Sidney's 'Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia.
		At a time when effeminacy was signaled by passionate excess more than by same-sex attraction, Pyrocles' narrative transaction renders the writing and the passionate reading of the Arcadia also as a gendered act.
		A transactional approach suggests the deep sexuality and even the effeminacy imagined at the core of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia and of other romance narratives in the early modern period.
		The effeminacy associated with the narration of seductive texts to women is even more evident in a highly voyeuristic scene in the revised Arcadia.
	gracewood0.tripod.com /sidneylamb.html (5561 words)

	effeminacy - OneLook Dictionary Search
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		effeminacy : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
		Words similar to effeminacy: effeminateness, sissiness, unmanliness, womanishness, more...
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	Érudit \| RON n36-37 2004-2005 : Kimberly : Effeminacy, Masculinity, and Homosocial Bonds: The (Un)Intentional Queering ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Effeminacy, Masculinity, and Homosocial Bonds: The (Un)Intentional Queering of John Keats
		Hunt specifically links this degeneration in Keats to “ill health,” offering an explanation for his behaviour that is beyond his control and excusable to the public.
		Yet there is only a small step from delineating a degeneration of the natural tendency to pleasure as resulting in effeminacy in one’s writing to causing effeminacy in oneself.
	www.erudit.org /revue/ron/2004/v/n36-37/011142ar.html (6285 words)

	wilcox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		In the Moral Epistles, Seneca promulgates rhetorical criteria that equate a man?s style with his character, and in particular, with his manliness (Graver 1997).
		An effeminate style is matched to effeminacy in dress and manner, with Maecenas as prime exemplar (Ep.
		effeminacy is identified and impugned is not gender, but literary style.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/03mtg/abstracts/wilcox.html (450 words)

	Amazon.com: effeminacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Gothic Masculinity: Effeminacy and the Supernatural in English and German Romanticism.(Book review): An article from: Studies in Romanticism by Marjean D. Purinton (Jun 5, 2006)
		Gothic Masculinity: Effeminacy and the Supernatural in English and German Romanticism (The Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture) by Ellen Brinks (Hardcover - Sep 2003)
		Gothic Masculinity: Effeminacy and the Supernatural in English and Ger by Ellen Brinks (Hardcover - 2003)
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=effeminacy&index=blended&page=1 (875 words)

	Heliogabalus
		This effeminacy of the emperor is stressed in other passages as well.
		In his view, the boy's effeminacy proves that he was unfit to rule.
		Admittedly, he speaks of Heliogabalus' effeminacy and seems to be thoroughly disgusted with the fact that Heliogabalus tended to smear cosmetics on his face.
	www.livius.org /he-hg/heliogabalus/heliogabalus.htm (1195 words)

	Femininity Issues in Gay Communities: A hatred of feminine men?
		"In liberating themselves from effeminacy, homosexuals have taken on yet another albatross, accepted more, not less rigid notions of how they should express their homosexuality, and essentially invented - to borrow a stereotype ridicules in the fl community - the gay oreo, effeminate on the inside, masculine without.
		In the final analysis, liberation has liberated homosexuals into a new totalitarian attitude towards their mannerisms, a new contempt for effeminacy, and above all a new body language, the masculine majority's depersonalizing Esperanto of frigid gestures and flinty smiles" (Harris, 1991: 76).
		"...rather than endorsing effeminacy, gay liberation has led to the institutionalization of its ridicule" (Harris, 1991: 78).
	www.youth-suicide.com /gay-bisexual/racism-gay-lesbian/hatred-of-femininity.htm (264 words)

	Amazon.com: Effeminacy: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Gothic Masculinity: Effeminacy and the Supernatural in English and German Romanticism.(Book review): An article from: Studies in Romanticism by Marjean D. Purinton (Digital - Jun 5, 2006) - HTML
		Such a role implied extreme effeminacy and, if anything, was felt to be worse than the...
		con- tempt on the cowardly effeminacy of living under shelter or upon the exasperating inconvenience of...
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	The Plague of Effeminacy
		Besides several Clubs and Assemblies of these Wretches that are publickly known, there are many private Ones, where Effeminacy revels in all its Impurity of filthy Vice and detestable Practices: Nor is there a public Place, but something of this Nature shews itself with the most shocking Aspect.
		Nor does Effeminacy, wherevere it governs the Monster, who possesses a plentiful Fortune, stop at the most absurd and inconsistent Actions.
		Rictor Norton (Ed.), "The Plague of Effeminacy, 1757", Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England: A Sourcebook, 26 February 2003 <http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/plagues.htm>.
	www.infopt.demon.co.uk /plagues.htm (583 words)

	Appendix A
		It was a blanket condemnation of all effeminacy as defined by Greek male society--not 20th century USA.
		century, malakos was typically thought to mean "masturbators," then advances in scholarship led to what is probably the correct translation, "the effeminate." From then on, effeminacy became the preferred translation until early in the 20th century.
		Yet, perhaps due to scholarship’s misunderstanding of what constituted effeminacy in ancient Greek male society, the term was used increasingly to condemn either homosexuals en mass, subgroups within homosexuality or male prostitutes.
	www.queerme.com /appendix_a.htm (956 words)

	Solitude and Enclosure in Oscar and Lucinda
		The constraint he depicts is almost never voluntary, but frequently forced upon women, or, in the case of Oscar, perceived effeminacy.
		Lucinda resists the ties society attempts to impose upon her; she owns a factory, lives alone, and has intimate friendships with men.
		Unable to tolerate the effeminacy it suggests, they attack his soft skin.
	www.scholars.nus.edu.sg /landow/post/australia/carey/cobbspace4.html (1805 words)

	Afrocentricity vs Homosexuality: The Isis Papers
		Welsing defines "primary effeminacy" and "secondary effeminacy" to distinguish white causes of homosexuality from Black ones.
		"Primary effeminacy" is a self-derived response by whites to their genetic insufficiency, causing a negation of self-reproduct ion due to disgust with their own genetic weaknesses.
		"Secondary effeminacy" (Black male homosexuality) is consciously imposed on the Black man by the white man for the purpose of destroying the Black family.
	www.spunk.org /texts/pubs/lr/sp001715/isispap.html (1095 words)

	effeminacy - Definitions from Dictionary.com
		the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man); "the students associated science with masculinity and arts with effeminacy"; "Spartans accused Athenians of effeminateness"; "he was shocked by the softness of the atmosphere surrounding the young prince, arising from the superfluity of the femininity that guided him"
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	Childhood experiences of homosexual men : Chronic juvenile unmasculinity
		Saghir and Robins (1973) reported that a third of the homosexual men in their sample had manifested neither effeminacy nor aversion to sports in childhood.
		We hypothesized that at least one-third of a group of masculine, socially well-adjusted homosexual men would describe normal participation in rough-and-tumble activities.
		Friedman and Stern studied 17 exclusively homosexual males with no history of effeminacy and 17 exclusively heterosexual males.
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