(1) Too much education was said in many circles to make girls less virtuous, even to unsex them.(2) She was hugely reviled as a u2018prostituteu2019 and u2018 unsex 'd femaleu2019.(3) Were women to u2018 unsex u2019 themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection.(4) Not even the Red Queen gets much of an opportunity to u2018 unsex u2019 herself.(5) Lady Macbeth uses alcohol and Satan to u2018 unsex u2019 her and make her strong.(6) She had the vocal range and presence that allow for a powerful delivery of the famous (and often studied to death in high school) u2018 unsex me nowu2019 soliloquy.(7) Irish judges and juries did not insist on conformity to a feminine ideal of domestic submissiveness; a woman who fought back was not treated as having forfeited her right to legal recourse by u2018 unsexing u2019 herself.(8) As Pat Griffen once asked, u2018Why is it that men are unsexed by failure and women by success?u2019(9) Her delivery of the scene in which Lady Macbeth unsexes herself to conspire with Macbeth in his becoming king was anti-climatic.(10) In his official report, Mills turned the speed at which women worked into a moral story about the dehumanizing, and unsexing , aspects of industry.
