Maybe, I'm missing something here, but don't you mean her inner femininity?

No. The woman works hard to integrate her masculine side, so when she finds herself attracted to manly men she thinks "oh, I know why I'm attracted to these masculine men, they are reflecting my inner masculine side who now is surfacing".

Same with men who are attracted to the "little woman". The latter allows them to act like manly men, to express their masculine side, not their feninine aspect as they wrongly may think.