immasculate

Etymology

The verb was coined by Judith Fetterley in 1978; compare effeminate (verb); contrast emasculate.

verb

  1. To make into a man; to make manly, or cause to have a male perspective.“A larger number of plays than novels seem not to immasculate the female reader in the precise way Fetterley articulates. After having made my choices, I realized that the male-written plays analyzed in this book are all written by heterosexual-identified playwrights […]”