In 1959, the Barbie fashion doll was introduced as a feminine ideal of modern aesthetic beauty by Mattel, in the United States. While there are those who hold Barbie to be the feminine ideal, Barbie`s anatomical proportions are exaggerated and do not, for example, meet the aesthetic proportions that men in Indo-European cultures find most attract.... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femininity
Fem`i·nin'i·ty noun 1. The quality or nature of the female sex; womanliness. 2. The female form. [ Obsolete] « O serpent under femininitee .» Chaucer. Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/18
a set of distinctive culturally specific characteristics attributed to and prescribed for women. Compare masculinity.
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femininity, feminity Feminine quality; the characteristic quality or assemblage of qualities pertaining to the female sex, womanliness; in early use also, female nature. Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/1102/8