maternalize
English
Etymology
Verb
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- (transitive) To make maternal.
- 2003, Rory Cooke Dicker, Alison Piepmeier, Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century
- Women's professional status is frequently mediated by overt efforts to "beautify" or maternalize them, or both.
- 2003, Rory Cooke Dicker, Alison Piepmeier, Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century