"The female body played an important role in signaling effeminacy; effeminate sensuality could be expressed either through consorting with woman or imitating them through adopting traditionally feminine modes of dress or appearance. Although largely used to describe men effeminacy, interestingly enough, could also apply to women who did not live to an expected standard of feminity. Given its range of meanings effeminacy, by the mid eighteenth century acted as a “civilization’s barometer"."
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Chi-ming Yang, in Performing China: Virtue, Commerce, and Orientalism in Eighteenth-Century England, 1660–1760 (Google eBook), JHU Press, 03-Oct-2011
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