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Historically, masculine attributes such as beard growth have been seen as signs of virility and leadership (for example, in ancient Egypt and Greece).[1]

Virility refers to any of a wide range of masculine characteristics viewed positively. It is applicable to women but not to negative characteristics. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED1) says virile is "marked by strength or force." Virility is commonly associated with vigour, health, sturdiness, and constitution, especially in the fathering of children. In this last sense, virility is to men as fertility is to women. OED1 also notes that virile has become obsolete in referring to a "nubile"[2] young woman – "a maid that is Marriageable or ripe for a Husband, or Virill."

Historically, masculine attributes such as beard growth have been seen as signs of virility and leadership (for example in ancient Egypt and Greece).[1]

As a term for positive reference, virility does not accord with feminisms that put forward various deconstructions of masculinity.[3] According to these points of view, virility is redefined as an outdated abstraction, impacting negatively on women via unwanted sexual activity, and unwanted pregnancies.[4]

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References [link]

  1. ^ a b Schiebinger, Londa 1993
  2. ^ Oxford English Dictionary
  3. ^ Plant, Sheryl (11 February 2006). "Deconstructing Masculinity". The F Word. https://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2006/02/deconstructing_masculinity. 
  4. ^ Kligman, Gail (1998). The Politics of Duplicity: Controlling Reproduction in Ceausescu's Romania. University of California Press. p. 249. https://books.google.com/books?id=JhkImAIcqCMC&pg=PA249&lpg=PA249&dq=virility+%22unwanted+pregnancy%22&source=web&ots=zyxMPtFmwF&sig=vlaveNbCWxFRzOIKpdTvN_-UYtY. 

Further reading [link]

  • Schiebinger, Londa (1993), Nature's Body, Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon Press 
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Chorus:
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