womanhood
the state of being a woman; womanly character or qualities.
women collectively: American womanhood.
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In My Body, the author outlines her rise in the fashion and film industries as well as her journey to motherhood through essays that coalesce into a frank and intimate portrait of womanhood, power and sexuality.
In the S2 finale, Dorothy got her first period, marking her transition into womanhood, and The Candlemaker's powers began to manifest in the real world.
Michelle Gomez is a time-traveling Madame Rouge in Doom Patrol S3 trailer | Jennifer Ouellette | September 1, 2021 | Ars TechnicaIt’s also ironic that we tend to see step-throughs as somehow less serious than bikes with high top tubes, inasmuch as these were the very bikes that upended Victorian conventions of womanhood in the late 19th century.
The tradition, called a sunrise ceremony, is a rite of passage for a teenage girl in which she goes through a series of rituals to recognize her transition to womanhood.
This land is sacred to the Apache, and they are fighting to save it | Dana Hedgpeth | April 12, 2021 | Washington PostThis 1997 Anita Diamant novel fleshes out the minor Biblical character Dinah — the daughter of Jacob and Leah and the sister of Joseph, he of the coat of many colors — to tell a compelling story about ancient womanhood.
The novel is a near perfect portrayal of the emotions of a young girl on the cusp of womanhood.
These Female Contemporaries Weren’t Afraid of Virginia Woolf | Louisa Treger | November 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhen the young woman is ready to emerge from her weeks in hiding, she attends a ceremony marking her ascent into true womanhood.
Facial Tattoos: The Tribal Female Rite in Papua New Guinea | Brandon Presser | August 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTYet over the course of this season, Sansa has become a pillar of strong womanhood.
Valar Morghulis: Game of Thrones’ Women Are Going to Rule the World | Scott Bixby | June 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThose were the valuable aspects of womanhood at the time: being pretty and even-tempered and sweet.
The ‘Maleficent’ Screenwriter Also Wrote ‘The Lion King’ and ‘Beauty and the Beast’ | Kevin Fallon | June 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMany of the poems are diagrams and puzzles that seek to look at love, womanhood, motherhood, and the longing for God in new ways.
Exclusive: The National Book Awards Longlist for Poetry | The Daily Beast | September 17, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThis last, which is the work of one now grown into womanhood and no longer a story-teller, is interesting in many ways.
Children's Ways | James SullyEach essays to think, appear and speak as nearly according to the orthodox standard of womanhood as possible.
Glances at Europe | Horace GreeleyShe was like no other woman, he said—a woman with all the possible beauty and glory of womanhood stored in her heart.
The Everlasting Arms | Joseph HockingHe had seen Mildred creep from babyhood into childhood, and bud from girlhood to womanhood.
The Fifth String | John Philip SousaThere comes a time in the life of every girl when she must change from childhood to womanhood; she can not always remain a child.
The value of a praying mother | Isabel C. Byrum
British Dictionary definitions for womanhood
/ (ˈwʊmənˌhʊd) /
the state or quality of being a woman or being womanly
women collectively
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