AC 1702 - The Interior Man; AC 1707 - The Internal Man

"Man" in these verses indicates human or person
not someone specifically male. 
The application is to all - male or female.
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AC 1702 [2]

The interior man
is intermediate
between the internal and the external man.
By the interior man
the internal man communicates with the external;
without this medium,
no communication at all is possible.
The celestial is distinct from the natural,
and still more from the corporeal,
and unless there is a medium
by which there is communication,
the celestial cannot operate at all into the natural,
and still less into the corporeal.
It is the interior man
which is called the rational man;
and this man, because it is intermediate,
communicates with the internal man,
where there is good itself and truth itself;
and it also communicates with the exterior man,
where there are evil and falsity.
. . .  In a word, the interior or middle man
is the rational man himself,
who is spiritual or celestial when he looks upward,
but animal when he looks downward.

AC 1707 [3]

The internal man in everyone
belongs to the Lord alone;
for there the Lord stores up
the goods and truths
with which He gifts man from infancy.
It is through these
He flows into the interior or rational man,
and through this into the exterior;
in this way it is given to the man to think,
and to be a man.
But the influx from the internal man
into the interior or middle man,
and so into the exterior man,
is twofold;
it is either by celestial things, or by spiritual things
or what is the same,
it is either by goods, or by truths.
By celestial things, or goods,
it flows in only with regenerate men,
who have been gifted
either with perception or with conscience;
thus it flows in by perception or by conscience;
for which reason the influx by celestial things
has no existence except with those
who are in love to the Lord
and in charity toward the neighbor.
But by spiritual things, or truths,
the Lord flows in with every man;
and unless there was this influx
the man could not think,
and therefore could not speak.
When a man is such
that he perverts the goods and truths,
and when he cares nothing
for celestial and spiritual things,
there is then no influx of celestial things, or goods,
but the way for these is closed;
and yet there is an influx of spiritual things, or truths,
for a way for them is continually kept open.
So may be seen what is the nature
of the interior or middle, that is, of the rational man.