Its role in promoting images of lesbians as "mannish" or cross-dressed women has also been controversial.

She looks and moves like one of the mannish women in Jean Cocteau's films.

During the era of the Weimar Republic, "mannish women were both celebrated and castigated for breaking down traditional gender roles."

A mannish woman clad in armor and with a strange brand upon her forehead, she is one of Diamond's magical servants.

His mother is visited by a short, mannish woman who knows how to please the local housewives.

Haec-Vir accuses the mannish woman of baseness, unnaturalness, shamefulness, and foolishness: he grounds his argument in traditional assumptions about social order and gender decorum.

For all her strength and height, however, she was not a mannish woman Numerous people describe her as voluptuous, and occasionally she is described as beautiful.

I thought of Marjorie Graham's mannish older woman.

"Now, don't forget about that," said one of the mannish women.

Two of her guards attended her, hard-faced, mannish women, dedicated and fantastically loyal.