But the great paradox of misogyny is that its object is womanhood itself — not traditional womanhood or nontraditional womanhood, but the very fact of being a woman.
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"My womanhood is not really up for debate and negotiation by anybody else, and my womanhood is not at stake," Peppermint said.
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" "White women are constantly choosing their whiteness over their womanhood.
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Each of these titles explores the complexity of Black womanhood.
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But there's more to life and womanhood than just that.
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Obviously [laughs] our show, Womanhood, is meant for substitute teachers.
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"womanhood," were not biological conditions but socially constructed ideals, concepts
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Zelda attributes her friend's reaction to her experience of womanhood.
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So we don't feel this problem of manhood or womanhood.
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There are allusions to Mother Nature, motherhood and womanhood throughout.
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"Lemonade" did not translate black womanhood for a white audience.
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That job gave me permission to see all my womanhood.
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Watch ... she doesn't just throw shade, she attacks Caitlyn's womanhood.
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"It's a visualization of the initiation [into womanhood]," Smoczyńska confirms.
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Through it all, Miranda boldly defined womanhood on her own terms.
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Creative Past, The Nature of Aesthetic Emotion, Man's Conception of Womanhood
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She deviated more from the norms of womanhood than Clinton did.
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It's an extensive, often cheeky, exploration of lineage, fate, and womanhood.
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For starters, Bea understands womanhood better than any kid her age.
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The video is a varied breakthrough on blackness, womanhood and freedom.
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Throughout her career, Helen Mirren has epitomized the strength of womanhood.
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Fellow Netflix gems Disenchantment and Aggretsuko both explore thorny, untameable womanhood.
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They were really committed to showcasing the complexity of black womanhood.
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By coming out, I felt like I was betraying my womanhood.
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Always accentuating the power, intellect and of course womanhood in me.
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We all have them, it seems, a universal badge of womanhood.
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Is it vulgar to want to depict another view of womanhood?
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"The girl is on the brink of womanhood," Ms. Friend said.
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I felt like a failure — like people weren't seeing my womanhood.
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You represent the womanhood of the country in the American Congress.
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Intellectually challenged from birth, she became increasingly erratic after entering womanhood.
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Her funny, moving poems are a wonderful ode to black womanhood.
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Better late than never for Tiffany Haddish to celebrate her womanhood.
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Some theorists have interpreted this as a basic fear of womanhood.
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The condition of being sexually oppressed is the condition of womanhood itself.
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Instead, the performance was a celebration of womanhood and everything it entails.
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My first act of womanhood was a commitment to my economic security.
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Her non-blended pieces feel like celebrations of individuality, blackness, and womanhood.
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"They called me a prostitute, and an insult to womanhood," she said.
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Is your erection really more than protecting the parts of my womanhood?
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Behind the band, a giant screen projected images of womanhood in America.
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It was a beautiful statement celebrating Alexis' womanhood during a classic song.
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But acknowledging my womanhood also meant acknowledging my tendency toward catastrophic thinking.
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That's why many conservative women prioritize their conservative values over their womanhood.
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Obviously, this doesn't have to negate the authenticity of either group's womanhood.
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In some ways, I have detached the process of birth-form womanhood.
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"They're creating a vision of womanhood which is desperately missed," Maybury explained.
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Here are certain ways that a girl might grow up into womanhood.
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Womanhood was far-off, a state of emergency that befell other people.
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I was playing at womanhood like I'd played house as a child.
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As we all know, Hillary rejected the mantle of womanhood in 2008.
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Here lies a snapshot of America, of Black womanhood, of the body.
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The vagina, as a badge of womanhood, is simultaneously charged and depleted.
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Toledano remembers fearing that her uniform might somehow erase her evolving womanhood.
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"To have a movie that wanted to celebrate black women and black womanhood, setting it at a festival that also celebrates every aspect of black womanhood — this was the right idea," director Malcolm D. Lee told BuzzFeed News.
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Join us in celebrating the dopeness of Black womanhood and sign up here.
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Sarah Hyland is opening up about womanhood in a raw and vulnerable way.
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I can embrace my womanhood and not have to worry about covering up.
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Drag is a celebration of women and womanhood, and Blackface is not that.
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Colette offers Knightley's least quiet, most bombastic negotiation of proper womanhood to date.
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I think about men who'd be happy to redefine womanhood without asking permission.
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In Lemonade, Beyoncé sang about the power of Black womanhood amid romantic strife.
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How does your Womanhood persona differ from your real or other comedic life?
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And that lends a powerful authenticity to Aniston's reflections on womanhood and sexism.
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It retains all of its power as a sociopolitical statement about black womanhood.
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That's not to say that makeup is required for womanhood by any means.
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For Jayla, the quinceañera was an occasion to celebrate blackness and black womanhood.
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The entire Beyoncé "Lemonade" experience involves the work of marriage and black womanhood.
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"The act of womanhood" is finally to speak our truths to each other.
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For now, womanhood is a faraway signal, a blinking light, visible, but indecipherable.
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This is a very particular type of womanhood and a very particular experience.
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Have you gotten any backlash for saying that you've detached birth from womanhood?
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But I just thought it was normal—a normal, painful part of womanhood.
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Through MTV, Mia saw her own path into music and womanhood become clearer.
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Sure, a trans girl can stake her claim to womanhood since day one.
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And it's those shallow qualities associated with womanhood that we see on screen.
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" In Britain, The Sunday Express said, "Her glory sheds luster on all womanhood.
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Lennox turns the details of Black womanhood, which were once shunned, into keepsakes.
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"I was staring down at what would become her womanhood someday," Baxa said.
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Ming Peiffer's play about the treacherous road to womanhood has reached its end.
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But her life's passion is spreading the gospel of unapologetic Black womanhood through her writing and her digital platform #BlackWomenAreForGrownUps, inspired by the idea that while #BlackGirlMagic is great, Black women deserve to revel in the space of their womanhood.
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I remember seeing her be so confident and also coming into her own womanhood.
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"I feel like I'm coming into my womanhood and finding myself," the star says.
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The psychology of that makes the normal progression of girlhood into womanhood very difficult.
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M. The newest multilevel project by Vogue offers up an eclectic look into womanhood.
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It's a beautiful tribute to Black womanhood, friendship, and joy in a hilarious package.
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Taking my first steps into womanhood was no different, except I was all alone.
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It opens when they are at the precipice of womanhood, halfway through the book.
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In its place are stories of the unique, and often terrifying struggles of womanhood.
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But her life's passion is spreading the gospel of unapologetic Black womanhood through #BlackWomenAreForGrownUps.
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Film noir gave women a space to exist beyond the typical bounds of womanhood.
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It was roundly rejected as out of line with the magazines' image of womanhood.
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The media continue to convey a "super feminine" ideal of womanhood, says Ms Nemoto.
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She was so true to herself and so honest about the struggles of womanhood.
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Many women feel enormous pressure to live up to a traditional standard of womanhood.
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No serious questions about feminism, Black womanhood...you know the stuff MJ does best.
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For women like Schlafly, though, the benefits of wealthy white womanhood came in spades.
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By the early 19th century, what historians call "the cult of true womanhood" emerged.
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When the cult of true womanhood began to take shape, child-rearing manuals proliferated.
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So to see both my mother and grandmother, I've seen different possibilities of womanhood.
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MRKH challenges these views of womanhood and what a woman's purpose is in life.
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They should own their womanhood and all that is special and different about it.
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Has my experience of womanhood been identical to that of other women my age?
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A bleak syllabus of womanhood, all of which I read within a few years.
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By incorporating them in her work, Thomas taps into a tradition of commanding womanhood.
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But the humor of Jessi's situation hinges on her unmet expectations of womanhood, not shame.
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So as I relaunched into single womanhood, I was not about to loosen my grip.
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Fifth grade, however, afforded no such placid refuge from the still-ongoing horror of womanhood.
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The quirky, bossy character has taught us so much about ourselves, our work, and womanhood.
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Even now, cultural narratives tend to define womanhood by its limits, rather than its possibilities.
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I no longer feel like I owe it to society to perform womanhood even nominally.
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Around the same time, wearing red lipstick had become a statement about womanhood and autonomy.
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The other two main characters are defined by old-school ideas of womanhood as well.
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From Hidden Figures to Fences, Davis now gets to portray different versions of Black womanhood.
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She specifically speaks to black womanhood in a way that writes our experiences into history.
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"I'm slowly coming into my womanhood, but it's a work in progress," says Jenner, 66.
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If I wanted to hear about the power of my womanhood I'd go to Hazlitt.
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In doing so, she radically reframed herself, her music and representations of African-American womanhood.
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This is the crux of womanhood that Guess embodied—to be simultaneously infantilized and vilified.
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"We are fighting for womanhood, just to be recognized in the first place," she said.
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"It was a celebration of black womanhood that we hadn't really heard," Ms. Leigh said.
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Plus, Morrison's writing about womanhood, convention and the fierce attachment of female friendship is astounding.
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The London event has also been riven with infighting over the very definition of womanhood.
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Here I was chosen to represent American womanhood and then America treated me like this.
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Obama is how she created a modern narrative of black womanhood just by being herself.
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Alma conveyed to her daughters that being a mother was an essential part of womanhood.
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Working feminine and erotic themes into her canvases, Milk visualizes precise moments of blossoming womanhood.
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It's not that Women of Resistance isn't an excellent cross-section of work by and about the intersectional experience of contemporary womanhood; it's that the intersectional experience of contemporary womanhood is a slog through all the crap that's been piled on top of us.
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All of these men have watched but never experienced first-hand the pains built into womanhood.
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Rather, as a blog, LaTonya Yvette is a window into this particular womanhood and expanding community.
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Are my 23 years of womanhood time served enough to qualify my input to the discussion?
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For me, breasts are a part of who I am, and a part of my womanhood.
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Totah added that Lea Michele is one of the inspirations who helped her realize her womanhood.
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It reflects the complexity of womanhood, that women's actions are often met with a double meaning.
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The truth is that caricatures of Black womanhood from men are usually more harmful to women.
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Often, Lee's idea of progressive womanhood is any gal who's as openly horny as a dude.
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" This echoes his earlier comment on the necessity of creating a more "profound theology of womanhood.
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The #MeToo movement made it clear that power imbalances can make womanhood feel synonymous with victimhood.
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If you track the progression of her films, they all tackle a specific aspect of womanhood.
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And most significantly, Daenerys is powerful in a way directly and singularly tied to her womanhood.
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Bond spoke about movingly about appropriation and about the need to continue to represent Black womanhood.
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I've passed on most requests to top because I felt like my womanhood was at stake.
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It's 2016 — bucking old ideas of matrimony and womanhood is kind of a thing these days.
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Beauty companies like Dove and Pantene have long reached out to their customers by celebrating womanhood.
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Remember that your queerness/womanhood/transness/class background/disability doesn't exclude you from white privilege. 94.
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She uses her work to explore womanhood and as a means for social and cultural criticism.
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" The college said it "has expanded its definition of womanhood to include both sex and gender.
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Some TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists) tweeted and wrote columns about this latest assault on womanhood.
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The NE9 clearly has an underlying theme of recognizing the power of women and of womanhood.
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These matriarchal symbols envision a world where the qualities of Chinese womanhood are envied and respected.
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Women's reproductive outcomes are central to the conclusion of their stories, and uniting this with the film's other major themes under the header of WOMEN demonstrates what we think womanhood is really about: sex, childbirth and -rearing, and (since this is 20th-century womanhood) feminist texts.
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The loss of innocence we all experience is magnified in her dual exploration of womanhood and nostalgia.
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What do you think this says about Madame Hyde's sense of self or her sense of womanhood?
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Remember: The path toward womanhood may be treacherous, but at least it's lined with plenty of laughs.
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I didn't expect to have a profound reckoning with my relationship to my own lesbianism and womanhood.
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"All my life it's been the only expression of womanhood I had was my hair," she said.
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My relationship to womanhood (like practically every other assigned-female person, I'd imagine) has always been fraught.
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You really needed someone who felt fresh in their womanhood, and able to be taken advantage of.
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We learn a lot about womanhood and we make incredible discoveries about how women feel about themselves.
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The magazine's November issue, written and photographed exclusively by women, will also celebrate perspectives on modern womanhood.
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Where "Feel" goes full Prince, "Jane" is about the power inherent in womanhood and Black girl magic.
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The school will offer a course exploring Lemonade as a "meditation on contemporary Black womanhood" and feminism.
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This comedic opus of real womanhood must have been a shock to his deeply un-woke system.
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I was marked by some symbol of womanhood, sexuality, and maturity that I hadn't yet grown into.
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But that's exactly what makes it feel humanizing, exploring depths of womanhood we'd never dared to before.
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I thought every procedure would elevate my womanhood to the point where people would not question it.
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The visuals were a journey into Beyoncé's personal emotions, but also a full celebration of Black womanhood.
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So it's no surprise that television's most nuanced portrayals of Black womanhood comes from actual Black women.
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Granted, frank conversations about sex and the peculiar challenges of womanhood are no longer groundbreaking in 2017.
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We're a particular kind of woman, but our womanhood is not to be interrogated, questioned, or criticized.
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Tsushima paints a complex picture of modern Japanese womanhood, and of the anxieties of breaking with tradition.
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To me, their attitudes don't feel too far from turn-of-the-century attitudes toward white womanhood.
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Bartley Dominguez uses the female nude and sexuality as proclamations, she says, of female force and womanhood.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation, I thought, opening the door.
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There is little more foundational to American womanhood than self-sacrifice, and sacrifice for children in particular.
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She's become a sort of simulacrum of broader issues: white womanhood, empowerment in a sexist industry, allyship.
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Womanhood and women in general just make more sense to me than anything else I've ever tried.
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Womanhood is too expansive a category to be defined by limited parameters, no matter how it's marketed.
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It is a celebration of a quinceañera, a 15-year-old's traditional rite of passage into womanhood.
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Assemblage gave her the opportunity to craft worlds illustrating the personal and political implications of Black womanhood.
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It was heartening to see six approaches to womanhood in politics on display before the American people.
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The custom endures because of passed-down beliefs about religion, cleanliness, passage into womanhood, or suppressing sexual desires.
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Its stories of women navigating men's spaces and womanhood as a kind of performance make for riveting television.
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Neither of those paradigm-shifting womanhood rituals changed me in the way the "Spelling Bee Incident" did, though.
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This latest tribute feels like a moment especially dedicated to celebrating Black womanhood, and I couldn't be happier.
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Sometimes womanhood feels like a cage, and sometimes it feels like home; the only home I've ever known.
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What if, in trying to be a man, I really just had womanhood reinforced deeper into my bones?
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" "My definition of womanhood is someone who moves through the world, presents and defines oneself as a woman.
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And cisgender women who can't get pregnant often feel a sense of failure in their womanhood, as well.
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Today, HBO is already home to Insecure, television's ongoing love letter to Black womanhood, created by Issa Rae.
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For Meghan to be reduced to such an archaic model of womanhood is disappointing, but it's not surprising.
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It's beautiful, I feel like I'm entering a new part of womanhood, and "Petal" is reflective of that.
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For me, it's a movie about women and about womanhood, and about how women are these secret societies.
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Cody's work, particularly in collaboration with director Jason Reitman, comprises raw examinations of womanhood in its various stages.
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"The "Angry Black Woman" has become a label that we've stamped upon generations of black womanhood," Davis said.
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But she acknowledges her "road to womanhood" has been different than it is for most, transgender or otherwise.
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"It turned into something that was more than a product ... it symbolized something for all womanhood," says Tengah.
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The works from this period are threaded together by themes of solitude and invisibility associated with black womanhood.
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"Fleabag" fans went wild for Thomas as Belinda, who gave a powerful monologue about womanhood on season two.
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I don't think I had ever felt my womanhood, my attractiveness, my existence validated in that way before.
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Lily's voice-over narration frequently spells out the societal pressures of young womanhood in a cool, detached affect.
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Historicity, in this exhibition, seems less important than symbolism, celebrating the witch as a symbol of maligned womanhood.
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Going outside mainstream pop and hip-hop would have revealed far more interesting music about gender and womanhood.
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Ms. Philo's ode to aspirational womanhood was gagged with a puff sleeve and tossed into a leather canyon!
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This group also disliked the idea of equating menstruation with womanhood, which they saw as reductive gender essentialism.
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"I came to terms with my womanhood, even if I naturally have a beard growing in," she said.
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" He ribs her about her vocal defense of black womanhood, he said, to "make sure she believes it.
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Menarche, the gateway to womanhood, is seen as proof that women are viable objects of desire for men.
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These activists found common cause in their deep religiosity and opposition to feminism's perceived diminishment of "real" womanhood.
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Emotionally, of course, it gave me a brief release from the tension and terror of my impending womanhood.
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And I like being able to do that without having that take away from my femininity or my womanhood.
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But the show also offers a perspective on Black motherhood and Black womanhood that is absolutely necessary right now.
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The terrible paradox of our moment in womanhood is perhaps about wanting freedom, but then still actually wanting … compliments?
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We need to lean into our womanhood, what can we capitalize on and how can we support our community?
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It's deeply entrenched in women's perspectives and relationships to each other — the simultaneous trials and immeasurable gifts of womanhood.
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I still have a ways to go, but I'm trying my best to tap into my Grown Ass Womanhood.
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NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism engages Black womanhood and technological possibility, rejecting the marginalization of people of color in the scientific realm.
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At once seductive and lethal in combat, Pamela falls far outside the acceptable model of womanhood: assertive, independent, bisexual.
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Her writing merges elements of reality, afrofuturism, and magical realism to craft unforgettable poems about race, womanhood, and Chicago.
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The defining moment of my transition to womanhood came during one week of my junior year of high school.
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As someone who regularly documents issues surrounding beauty, identity and womanhood, Ackermann's natural curiosity led her to Mama Lususu.
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Spanish photographer Andrea Torres Balaguer's mysterious photographs, titled MOON, are an ode to the beauty of nature and womanhood.
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It was another lesson in grown-ass womanhood: Life is not middle school, unless you want it to be.
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Natasha Vargas-Cooper, a journalist and labor organizer, has published an essay titled "Womanhood Redefined" in The American Conservative.
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When he suggested going to help, his friend stopped him, telling him the girl was being initiated into womanhood.
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I'm one of the millions who enjoy this spectacle of wealthy womanhood held up to a fun-house mirror.
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The series captivates on a cerebral level, too, asking eternally unanswerable questions about identity, womanhood, freedom, trauma, and society.
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As Lola becomes more comfortable in her own body, she no longer needs the music to affirm her womanhood.
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Many feel that they have failed to live up to societal expectations of what it means to embody womanhood.
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" She said, "But, if you're going to be a discredit to womanhood, then I'm not gonna agree with this.
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The rest of the book both expands and makes exact the roots of memory, madness and womanhood implied here.
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Written more than 30 years ago, Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" offers a cautionary tale of womanhood as sacrifice.
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It becomes an anthem: a celebration of womanhood, growth, overcoming trauma, and betting on yourself in a desperate situation.
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What can you turn to when you want to expend the nervous energy of childhood giving way to womanhood?
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The event offers a unique perspective on history, exile, and Iranian womanhood, as explored in both word and image.
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Judith Chemla's performance, which takes her character from young womanhood into middle age, is a thing of heartbreaking grace.
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Shire gained notoriety on Tumblr and Twitter, posting beautiful, gut-wrenching poems meditating on home, womanhood, and the immigrant experience.
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I moved to L.A. in my twenties, where I was trying to find my own confidence and my own womanhood.
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In a classic pop cultural turn, Gypsy steps through the threshold of womanhood by having sex for the first time.
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I think we need to own our bodies, own our futures, own our womanhood, and our right to be ourselves.
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I would have nightmares over whether my womanhood could ever be enough for the people around me to believe it.
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Its view of modern womanhood and its concerns is about as three-dimensional as, well, a photograph of some breasts.
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From the perspective of an African woman living in London, themes of home, identity, and womanhood ripple throughout Favour's work.
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There was Lemonade (2016), a palimpsest of Beyoncé's heartbreak and allusions to both familial and historical depictions of black womanhood.
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"I am especially inspired by communities that find better ways to mark the rite of passage into womanhood," said Ban.
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Her blogs, delving candidly into sex, family and womanhood, were devoured by fans hungry for an authentic new female voice.
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During season 1, UnReal focused an insistent lens on working womanhood, female friendship, as well as mental illness and anxiety.
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Even so, the impact on her sense of womanhood, and the reaction of other people, led to a difficult divorce.
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Bindis and saris are recurring features of her work, and with them all the associations they carry of Indian womanhood.
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McCarty's work perpetrates the same offense of refusing the conventions of womanhood and the sacredness of the mother-daughter bond.
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She went from being jeered as an "insult to womanhood" by the British papers to the first female world champion.
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But I never want to assume that this whole thing called 'womanhood,' that I could ever experience all of that.
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That's because Adichie's comments touched on a long-running, often deeply divisive debate within feminism over what womanhood really means.
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We see how joyus Luna's madrinas, or godmothers, are to see this young woman celebrate her first steps into womanhood.
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As women, we must quit deriding each other, comparing our own images of womanhood to those of our fellow sisters.
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"I prayed to connect with womanhood, to identify with what was happening to my body, but I couldn't," he said.
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She went from being jeered as an "insult to womanhood" by the British papers to the first female world champion.
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These blooper reels really pull back the curtain on RIOT's Womanhood series, showcasing the comedians' motivating chants and dance moves.
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But I never want to assume that this whole thing called womanhood, that I could ever experience all of that.
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Or having "double" quinces when they're 30 and feel as if they're firmly enough into womanhood to properly recognize it.
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And, make no mistake, representing American womanhood meant that she was held to standards that created a no-win situation.
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They're seen as the peak of hysterical womanhood, hormones totally out of control, rendering them nearly incapable of rational thought.
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These young men have clearly taken one of the five guiding principles of the movement — "respect for womanhood" — to heart.
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Nor do they come at us in order, blooming and decaying as in a time-lapse Progress of Womanhood parade.
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As illustrator Danielle Otrakji points out, this celebration of womanhood and sexuality is often absent in the American comic panorama.
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IN THE NAME OF SALOME This historical novel investigates womanhood and sexuality through the stories of two Dominican icons. ¡YO!
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Unfortunately, the result belied Mr. de Mazière's characterization of the play in his introduction as a timely take on womanhood.
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Jane has this unique way of delivering a story that is just filled with these machinations of womanhood and femininity.
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Public figures like Lena Dunham, Chrissy Teigen and Angelina Jolie have become more open about the various struggles of womanhood.
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To have a young black girl next to the 'Fearless Girl' does that: broadens the idea of girlhood and womanhood.
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What other books can you recommend that do for contemporary womanhood what Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's "Random Family" does for poverty?
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Maybe they experience their womanhood as something that's direct and action-taking — and why should that be a masculine concept?
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We encounter a "shamelessly phallic" television tower in Prague and a showpiece of "Stalinoid angry-yet-maternal womanhood" in Warsaw.
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We all have firsthand experience of how unnecessarily rigid and tyrannical a society's conceptions of manhood and womanhood can be.
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I wanted them to feel all the different body types, all the different women in different stages of their womanhood.
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There's the acclaimed poet, essayist, and novelist Morgan Parker, known for writing about the realities of Black womanhood in America.
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Abortion was not regarded merely as a crime against womanhood, argued Beisel and Kay, but a crime against the state.
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So not only was I a woman director, but I was a woman director at the height of my womanhood.
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"The Poet X" is the story of Xiomara Batista, a teen who feels at odds with her transition to womanhood.
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I was on the verge of womanhood and plus sizes, and this felt like a fitting, painful reminder of both.
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Indeed the new drama "Queen & Slim" depicts black womanhood without undercooked idiosyncrasies, all while centering a dark-skinned female lead.
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Some of the most intriguing perspectives on the body are coming from women working beyond the cisgender symbology of womanhood.
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There, she and her peers introduced me to their vision of femininity — their deconstruction of the warping effect of womanhood.
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From philosophical meditations on second-wave feminism to poetry on black womanhood, here are five works that are absolute must reads.
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They have to straddle the line between being symbols of American womanhood and wielding the massive power their position grants them.
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Complete with a stroller, park benches, and a picnic, the set design painted a colorful story on the journey of womanhood.
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These moments portray the small wins and tremendous losses of negotiating womanhood — and they move me, reliably and repeatedly, beyond measure.
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Beyoncé, for instance, turned to intimate lyrics about love and infidelity that became statements about black womanhood and captivated the zeitgeist.
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Conversely, Sanell Aggenbach's "Rumours" (2011) highlights the emotional toll of lived womanhood, particularly in relation to experiences of shame or misunderstanding.
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Now 25 years old, she mines the stories of her past to craft intimate, delicate lyrics about her life and womanhood.
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We follow Angelou as she ages from childhood to womanhood, and as she endures racism, sexual assault and so much more.
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The surgery left her with two large scars where she formerly had breasts, leaving her feeling disfigured and questioning her womanhood.
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Through essays about everything from Sailor Moon to the "Black Girl Magic" movement, Jerkins outlines how race, womanhood and feminism intersect.
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From The Handmaid's Tale to The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, it's a banner moment in TV for the terrors of womanhood.
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More than womanhood per se, pink represents girlhood, and it can be understood as a gendered yet asexual marker of femininity.
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"Like everything, women have a long way to go to really embrace themselves and embrace womanhood and being empowered," Handler says.
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Bonnie Lucas's exhibition at JTT features surreal gouaches and playful assemblages that mess with the social conventions of girl- and womanhood.
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As a multidisciplinary artist, the former art and English teacher now works to celebrate Black womanhood through photography, illustration, and writing.
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And for me it's been about embracing this new chapter in my womanhood, and not trying to be the old self.
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It's hard to feel like your personhood is under attack, your womanhood is under attack, your immigration status is under attack.
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Their one-portion size makes them ideal for the body-conscious, a facet of womanhood which has endured through the years.
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Last summer, Dunham and her bestie/producing partner Jenni Konner launched Lenny Letter, an online editorial venture that explores contemporary womanhood.
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You know, where the narrator's marriage dissolves over that one fateful summer in Martha's Vineyard while her daughter burgeons into womanhood?
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Likewise, the affections Little Women inspires aren't necessarily "good" lessons, even as they accurately reflect our culture's distorted views of womanhood.
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We expect the president's wife to be a devoted spouse and mother and nothing short of the embodiment of American womanhood.
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But it's also about what happens when an athlete — especially a black athlete — doesn't conform to other people's ideas about womanhood.
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"There were a lot of women who were living outside the margins of 'true womanhood' in their everyday lives," she said.
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Ms. McGarvey: This poem can be interpreted in many ways, depending on how you feel about your own womanhood or gender.
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The story slows or stops; the dance flowers; a Romantically classical vision of womanhood is at the center of the frame.
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From then on, many shades of pink dominated women's fashion, appearing each time with an intention to define or redefine womanhood.
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After spending much of her life as a man deeply withdrawn, she began hormone therapy last year to transition to womanhood.
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"Sabrina" invokes witches as a metaphor for womanhood, and the challenges that girls and women face in a male-dominated world.
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Fleabag describes herself as a rotting, insect-infested pile of trash, and we applaud, smug in our new understanding of womanhood.
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Loosely based on Alcott and her three sisters, the novel follows Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March from childhood to womanhood.
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Irish feminists responded with a scathing open letter denouncing the event and reaffirming their support for the womanhood of trans women.
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In the months leading up to the election, Ms. Conway generously lent her womanhood as a smokescreen to the Trump campaign.
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Like Maggie, she is pretty; and like Maggie, she's pragmatic and a little proud about her grown-upness, her established womanhood.
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By the Victorian era, the cause of hysteria was thought to be modern society and all its demands on fragile womanhood.
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Her work, which often centered around her fascination with womanhood, pleasure, sex, and pain, was more than poetic cries for help.
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Angry, volatile images are harnessed into the dynamic notion of womanhood that she developed in full force in the late 1990s.
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But the JAP, as a figure, is a paragon of nuance, as complex as the Jewishness and womanhood she draws from.
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From philosophical meditations on second-wave feminism to poetry on black womanhood, here are five works that are absolute must reads. 19903.
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It is probably not a coincidence that African fertility rates fell little in the 2000s, when that thinly educated cohort reached womanhood.
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When artists self-represent, they bring a degree of subjectivity to their images and tend to expand on limiting ideas of womanhood.
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In their YouTube series Womanhood, comedians Aparna Nancherla and Jo Firestone are committed to guiding you through the process of aging gracefully.
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The film plays out an intergenerational debate about Black womanhood and feminism, done with artful subtlety and immense respect for both sides.
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For Black girls like me the transition out of childhood into a complex and ill-defined "womanhood" happens swiftly and without warning.
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"Cult of Womanhood" features images of her sisters exploring their identities, their bodies, each other, and nature in a most visceral way.
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Laia Abril is a multiplatform artist whose work examines the deeply personal and, at times, controversial topics of womanhood and reproductive rights.
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Through her intervention, De Robertis hopes to combine both Mary's into one image that can better envisage a fuller experience of womanhood.
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The correlation between nature and womanhood as sources of life is idiomatic and pervasive, with plentiful references to butterflies, flowers, and vulvas.
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She will continue to redefine the way we view womanhood in America — and not just for white women — for each of us.
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"For the first time in my life I was really embracing my womanhood," recalls the Sin City star of that time period.
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Because of that, life events that should be experienced with your mother — usually milestones that celebrate womanhood — are not celebratory for me.
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On RIOT's Womanhood, cohosts Jo Firestone and Aparna Nancherla get down and dirty about what it means to live as a woman.
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But relying on Drag Race to set the standards of queendom is like using Top Model as a road map to womanhood.
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Still, those interested in a deep examination of subculture, womanhood and art through the lens of speculative fiction will be highly entertained.
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"I was really concerned that having a specific attraction to trans femininity meant essentially disqualifying trans women from total womanhood," Allie said.
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In Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self Recovery, bell hooks articulates how contemporary black womanhood demands constant vigilance and resistance.
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Luckily, comedians Aparna Nancherla and Jo Firestone are here to offer some sage advice on the milestone with their YouTube series, Womanhood.
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On Refinery29's new YouTube series Womanhood, comedians Aparna Nancherla and Jo Firestone teach you how to get through life's biggest milestones.
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On RIOT's show, Womanhood, comedian Aparna Nancherla sits down with Jo Firestone to talk about the most pressing questions of growing up.
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Experiencing the lived reality of womanhood in America can add a lot to a discussion on how a case should be decided.
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It discussed how a century after slavery ended, its baggage continued to affect blacks' ideas of manhood, womanhood, family structure and more.
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Tru doesn't fit into this box of femininity, of womanhood, but has no guide, no one else who is actually like her.
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To say that Parker seeks to reclaim these characters oversimplifies the book's tense negotiations of pop culture, systemic racism and black womanhood.
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But for Charlie's Angels, a franchise that is about sisterhood as much as it's about womanhood, there's very little of that here.
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She said the age of 14 is a transitional age between girlhood and womanhood, a time that often evokes tears and emotions.
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But if these characteristics are a prerequisite for a properly executed womanhood, does becoming a mother divest a woman of such qualities?
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And early movie adaptations, directed by men and catering to social norms of virtuous, self-sacrificing womanhood, rendered Marmee cloying and flat.
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Meredith: I know that as a kid watching the 1994 version, I didn't really understand the stakes of womanhood in the 1860s.
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" In the "Womanhood" episode "Becoming an Adult," Nancherla warns that "once your years are out" your "youth body turns into truth body.
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"I don't want to rob her of either her womanhood or her superheroism, because we need our black women superheroes," Lemmons said.
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BIRMINGHAM, England (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For most adolescent girls in Britain, shopping for a bra is a rite of a passage into womanhood.
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These ostensibly feminist companies ask women to celebrate components to womanhood that they've been previously told to be quiet about or struggle with.
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I was in the front half of my high school career and lingered somewhere between perturbed by and curious about my burgeoning womanhood.
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Taylor Mason (Asia Kate Dillon) dressed up in the trappings of seductive womanhood in order to lock down a multi-billion-dollar investor.
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These old and new stories would all trod familiar territory — namely, the ever-present challenges to and dangers of the experience of womanhood.
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Lambasting Hillary Clinton, for her womanhood as well as her alleged corruption, was a big part of Mr Trump's opening pitch to them.
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But you're in a vulnerable state right now, so I'll just say that is a very judgmental and fearful assessment of single womanhood.
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Paired with a diamond necklace and matching earrings, Beyoncé suggests that she can be a boss without sacrificing an ounce of her womanhood.
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Beyoncé and longtime stylist Zerina Akers, who worked on the video, used their sartorial choices to challenge society's outdated perceptions of a womanhood.
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The virgen haunts us, mourns our sin, a powerful symbol of ideal, chaste womanhood at any age, which is by default anti-queer.
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With that definition in mind, I would say that the most powerful thing about womanhood is the inherent capacity of resilience and adaptability.
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The critically-acclaimed album was a tour de force from beginning to end: it tackled Black womanhood, Black existence and Black joy throughout.
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The collection of her musings on Black womanhood includes poems, personal essays, and an intergenerational interview between a young woman and her grandmother.
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And for as much as I intuitively understand my own womanhood, I am still unlearning the lessons imprinted on me as a child.
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In this way — by showing women through each other's eyes — antiheroine narratives like Killing Eve offer an escape from male perspectives on womanhood.
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Now I'm at a place where I feel like the music is playable and now I'm getting more into me and my womanhood.
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The raw and revolutionary look at womanhood brings together a team of female journalists who explore how violence against women drives global instability.
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Starring herself as Shirin, a bisexual Iranian living in Brooklyn, Ms Akhavan's film is a look at a girlhood extending into young womanhood.
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" She continues, "talking about my body, talking about blackness, talking about womanhood, and talking about disability as a whole, I take very seriously.
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Mainstream standards are too rigid to be tested by a woman whose job is to be accepted as a representative of US womanhood.
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"Elizabeth gave England the longest period of peace...but I think as a person, she lost everything - her womanhood, her humanity," said Robbie.
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Reflecting ugliness in a traditionally "pretty" way—flowers, fragility, pale dresses—Katie Jane's lyrics and performance both embraced and subverted expectations of womanhood.
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Some spoke about it vaguely, more closely tied to transition into womanhood; others were full of throbbing euphemism or way too many details.
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This is why gymnastics is an elaborate metaphor for womanhood—you're supposed to do all this hard stuff and make it look easy.
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White supremacists scared up specters of rape and used the promise of safeguarding the purity of white womanhood to enact Jim Crow laws.
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Regardless of whether she identifies an absolute sense of womanhood across her life, the world, at one point, perceived her as something else.
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This spring, you could feel the Ballet Theatre audience's idea of womanhood widening as each of these two heroines became more fully herself.
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But it was also notable for how personal it was, how much it talked about her marriage, about her life, about black womanhood.
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At the limit, these concerns result in the view that the category of "womanhood" itself is fundamentally confused and thus better abandoned entirely.
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Red is an inescapable symbol of womanhood and violence in the video—the dual meaning is telling of how much they unfortunately intertwine.
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The idealized vision of 1950s womanhood that still permeates our politics ignores the fact that staying home may not actually make mothers happy.
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" She affirms that by focusing on contemporary black womanhood, digging into challenging concepts like the societal difference between "black blacks" and "black ethnics.
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In Maggie Lee's installation, a teenage girl's bedroom is sacred—a temple to house her while she freaks out about her impending womanhood.
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And to me, womanhood is so flexible and so ever-expanding and how beautiful is it to show all the ways that it manifests?
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Of course, the flamboyance and knowing how to enhance that femininity came from the peers I eventually met through ballroom culture, but the womanhood?
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And with it, we have a new cultural character — one whose media narrative, no less than Kate's, reflects a different cultural space for womanhood.
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Here, she's repeatedly compared to Caitlyn Jenner in an attempt to expose the apparent double standard of acknowledging Caitlyn's womanhood without validating Dolezal's blackness.
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Her second book, A Year of Biblical Womanhood, propelled her into the spotlight as a new and vital force in the larger Christian landscape.
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In Sherald's portrait I come to recognize the sanctity of Black womanhood and the necessity for care that the artist brings to her portraits.
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It telegraphed a very specific idea of womanhood harkening back to the 1950s which are particularly resonant given the current state of American politics.
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It was likely not related to the assault, doctors told me, but there is no denying the impact of the trauma on my womanhood.
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The show's finale is open-ended, but we can rest assured that the girls have begun to dabble with self-awareness, forgiveness, independence, womanhood.
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What's terrifying is that more than half of white women chose their whiteness over their womanhood & put someone like Trump in the White House.
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H-L: NSAF is a transmedia project in which we use various platforms to explore themes of black womanhood, technology, security, protection, and visibility.
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Lauren Kelley's digital prints and stop-motion short videos use modified Barbies to tell stories about womanhood that are sad, funny, surreal, and touching.
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"And to me, womanhood is so flexible and so ever-expanding, and how beautiful is it to show all the ways that it manifests?"
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As a phrase, "trust black women" makes us feel like we are rectifying the historical hardship of black womanhood and finally honoring their contributions.
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Lemonade, with its accompanying film, was a groundbreaking and genre-crossing album from Beyoncé that shifted the cultural conversations about Black love and womanhood.
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The 68-year-old activist uses Instagram as a place to share everything from beauty queries to personal updates on her transition to womanhood.
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The fact of their womanhood can certainly be overemphasized; all of them keyed their ambitions to the totality of art as they found it.
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Womanhood in this complex world requires strength and poise, the confidence to blur the lines of what is acceptable to find one's own path.
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Related: Surreal Figure Paintings Illuminate Magical Sisterhoods Paganism Gets A Minimalist, Projection Mapped Makeover [NSFW] Violent Erotic Drawings Explore the Primal Sides of Womanhood
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Marrone wants to embrace the traditional allure she finds in these paintings while challenging the idea of beauty in connection to sexuality and womanhood.
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What it's about: Jenny Slate stars in a painful comedy about deciding whether to have an abortion and the uncomfortable realities of young womanhood.
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Ms. Flanagan: In the end, we wanted the images to reflect the darker side of womanhood, and what that might mean to people individually.
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To be a girl today is to be the beneficiary of decades of conversation about the complexities of womanhood, its many forms and expressions.
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However, while Bjork has always pushed boundaries, including the mainstream's vision of womanhood, Beyonce has, in the past, worked very hard to appear unimpeachable.
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Beyoncé's latest album, Lemonade, is a masterpiece visually and sonically — an exploration of love, betrayal, and black womanhood that's taken the world by storm.
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"Adrienne Kennedy brought to life the depths of black female interiority and the aching humanity of black womanhood," Ms. Brooks wrote in an email.
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Soon, she joined the roster with her corporeal, three-dimensional work that scrutinized impositions on womanhood, subverting the female silhouette and its sociopolitical undertones.
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But the case itself also resonates deeply with narratives dating back to the first Ku Klux Klan of white womanhood defiled by dark savages.
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Their pitch for women's political consciousness was rooted not in the collective experience of American womanhood, but in an image of white feminine virtue.
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Reed said that the large spider brooch she wore to deliver that ruling, which attracted widespread comment, had become "a symbol of swashbuckling womanhood".
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Defending the purity of white womanhood has always been a significant axis of common bigotries, and gender-critical feminism operates in the same fashion.
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" Caitlyn Jenner, TV personality "My path to womanhood was very different and through that process I feel like I learned a lot about women.
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At best, she performs her own kind of Jewish drag, reclaiming the anti-Semitic tropes of yore as a positive ideal of Jewish womanhood.
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Her most-known work, the 1949 treatise is at once literary and rigorously philosophical in its exploration of feminism and the social construction of womanhood.
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The Visual Artist: Deun Ivory The former art and English teacher is now a multidisciplinary artist who celebrates Black womanhood through photography, illustration, and writing.
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Let's face it, a robbery of this scale would never have been pulled off without the privilege of unassuming inconspicuousness that comes with white womanhood.
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The frail seamstress Mimì and the fierce princess Turandot are two opposite poles of Puccinian womanhood, and both are characters that can seem one-dimensional.
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Her portrayals of womanhood are in no way meant to apply as blanket statements for all those identifying as female, but instead are more autobiographical.
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And yes, it's all somewhat psychotic, but it's also freeing; a respite from the constant barrage of pop culture depicting perfect, unattainable ideals of womanhood.
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Image: Shutterstock/vchal, Gizmodo The female menstrual cycle is a rite of passage into womanhood that for centuries has been shrouded in mystery and taboo.
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But still, she grapples with the feeling that if she and Getty aren't able to have biological children, her womanhood will be called into question.
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The Handmaid's Tale takes place in a society that views womanhood not as something human, but as a series of thankless roles — wife, domestic, handmaid.
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Cosmopolitan reports that The University of Texas at San Antonio will offer a course exploring Lemonade as a "meditation on contemporary Black womanhood" and feminism.
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"If such dolls had existed when I was a child, it would have made me feel far less alienated from definitions of womanhood," she says.
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Related: Sculptures and Collages Explore Indian Womanhood Independent: Laura Callaghan's Illustrated Women An Augmented Reality Superheroine Is Fighting the Social Stigma of Rape in India
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Both of those analyses point to a huge gap between how Westerners have understood the experience of Afghan womanhood, and how Afghan women see themselves.
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My roommate then let me borrow a copy of Wolf's 1997 book, Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle For Womanhood, and I read it with equal reverence.
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RAMZI HILA Chicago To the Editor: KJ Dell'Antonia's criticism of introversion left out an essential component: the experience of womanhood in an increasingly violent world.
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Part birthday party, part rite of passage, it symbolizes a girl's entrance into womanhood when turning 15, traditionally showcasing her purity and readiness for marriage.
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I fought back by likening myself to our family's women—and I did this without even realizing how much more my experiences resonated with womanhood.
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Wine Country leans into the joy in imbibing with friends, delves into how sharing personal truths speak to the complexity of womanhood and female friendship.
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Until the 1980s, this centuries-old celebration—primarily a Mexican girl's rite of passage into womanhood on her 15th birthday—wasn't widespread in Hispanic communities.
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Still, Claws and Nash's words are a testament to both the progress and work ahead when it comes to representing the broader experiences of womanhood.
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Interspersed among the lengthy accounts of late kindergarten pickups and pizza dinners and cutesy conversations are a handful of sharp observations about motherhood and womanhood.
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They represent a mosaic celebration of identity, history and little-seen stories that forgo the tired presentation of a single, monolithic image of black womanhood.
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The pieces of myself that I had dedicated to propping up my masculinity came crashing down as I slowly but surely accepted my essential womanhood.
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As the headmistress of a school full of Southern belles who welcome a wounded Yankee into their midst, Kidman is an avatar of Victorian womanhood.
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Conceived as a "shroud" of sentences for her mother, "Barefoot Woman" is also a paean to the traditions of Rwandan womanhood Stefania preserved in exile.
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They preferred the uneducated version of black womanhood embodied by the formerly enslaved suffragist Sojourner Truth, who entertained her audiences as she imparted her ideas.
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One of the ironies of womanhood is that some aspects of the body are intently monitored (pregnancy) while others are suppressed or simply ignored (menopause).
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She fell into the common misconception that trans men are "really women" who don't like their bodies and have been indoctrinated into a hatred of womanhood.
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She was the first MC to gain recognition for bridging the gap between womanhood and spirituality and contextualizing the struggles female MCs faced in the game.
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Day's onscreen model of "classic" womanhood stood counter to rapid cultural changes and upended gender norms — and it was a persona she continued to wear proudly.
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"Society views Jennifer Lawrence and white womanhood as deserving a certain level of protection, while black women have been deemed incapable of being violated," says Melancon.
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Created by a woman who forced her way into a male-dominated business world, Barbie blanketed America with a new understanding of what womanhood could be.
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" As a twice-married mother who was a performer, concert organizer, and teacher, she "did not fit comfortably within the late 19th-century paradigms of womanhood.
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By the 1960s, Diller's career -- and her trademark blond hair, eccentric outfits and groundbreaking quips about relationships, beauty and womanhood -- was one for the history books.
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Seeing what my alternative models of womanhood had been gave my students a better understanding of why many women in the early 1970s loved that show.
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Often what we're most afraid of are the things that are truly going to bring us into the greatest part of ourselves, and our creative womanhood.
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So many of the sappy pop songs we ask women to consume, which are largely written by men, strip away the autonomy and humanity of womanhood.
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" "The most influential thing another woman has ever taught me is that my womanhood is personal and that I am in control of my own narrative.
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Equally cleansing in its pride in black womanhood and meticulous selection of production, A Seat at the Table stands as one the year's strongest musical statements.
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A woman with a penis is not a contradiction, and she can also offer a distinct sexual experience; none of that invalidates her claim to womanhood.
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It will feature personal stories and reflections on a range of topics that continue to define the contemporary landscape: sexuality, womanhood, friendship, race, marriage, and beauty.
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I had the dream for only a few weeks, but I've come to recognize it as an important step in allowing myself to acknowledge my womanhood.
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At the beginning of the episode, Zoey's mother, Ofelia, explains that in Latino culture, a quinceañera is meant to celebrate a young woman's journey into womanhood.
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Forest Whitaker's directorial debut is a candid portrayal of Black womanhood, and what it means to search for the moment when you can finally let go.
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I have been the subject of the procedure because I wanted to affirm my womanhood through this process, and resources at that time were very limited.
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It might not have been as blatant a protest as Butterfly, but she chose to celebrate Blackness and womanhood when the world wasn't doing the same.
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In her playful assumption (or knowing rejection) of a feminine ideal, she leverages her audience's preconceived image of young womanhood to master her circumstances for herself.
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In London, I have no youthful history to reminisce about, and now when I walk its streets I wear the invisibility cloak of middle-aged womanhood.
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The two are universal, yet different enough to telegraph a multidimensional view of 30-year-old metropolitan womanhood in all of its wonderful microaggressions and banalities.
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A panel called "Confronting White Womanhood," designed to help white women recognize their own roles in perpetuating racism, was so popular it was ultimately held twice.
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And so that early March afternoon, in a stunningly decorated space nestled in the woods of Westchester County, we celebrated a girl's symbolic transition into womanhood.
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Adèle has glanced at the covenant of modern womanhood — the idea that you can have it all or should at least die trying — and detonated it.
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ROGERS And "Big Little Lies" was about the complications of womanhood, and how men mess with the dynamics of the bonds you form with each other.
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I was 40 when I set out on the dangerous crossing that led from the place where I was born to these green fields of womanhood.
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Even moments where the public might be confused about how to honor Ms. Boogie's legacy while still respecting her womanhood could be simple moments for pedagogy.
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On the new album, Ms. Letissier, who described herself as gender-queer and pansexual, doesn't seek to abandon her womanhood so much as expand its turf.
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Despite a tragedy that occurs soon after (or perhaps because of it), Ms. Varda's portrait of womanhood appears as a corrective to the glum gallery show.
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In Clair and as played by Phylicia Rashad, the show conjured a near-weekly idealization of womanhood and motherdom as fierce, glamorous, romantic and always right.
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Much of "Dollface" and its critique of contemporary womanhood is barely skin-deep, but it has such a good skin care routine it's hard to mind.
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Amy was a woman who saw all the maddening contradictions and unworkable expectations of contemporary womanhood and figured out how to play them to her advantage.
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But in the end, anti-trans people don't really care if the trans women they attack and criminalize can perform womanhood better than cis women do.
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But if we judge Little Women as a book about middle-class white womanhood in that particular place, at that particular time—then what a book.
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She then sings a song about the ennui of middle-aged womanhood and her disillusionment with the bourgeoisie who surround her privileged 1970s Manhattan life. Sure.
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A few days before we met, Beyoncé's "Lemonade," one of the most visceral albums about black womanhood in years, had been passed over at the Grammys.
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Lady Skollie's instantly recognizable practice presents the tenuous state of modern South African womanhood with large, beautiful canvases that are as strategic as they are stunning.
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Conventionally, private women were those who remained in the home and upheld values associated with the cult of true womanhood; "public women" were often identified as prostitutes.
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I wanted to showcase that no matter where you are at in your life, shape, or size you can exude that confidence and sexuality in your womanhood!
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Evans' 2012 book "A Year of Biblical Womanhood" reached No. 18 on The New York Times Best Sellers list upon its initial release, according to her website.
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It wasn't until recent years that she caught the comedy bug, churning her life and social media commentary on race, politics, womanhood and friendship into standup material.
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But access to the womanhood club also comes with so many pleasures and joys, not least of which is the intimate company and camaraderie of other women.
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Whereas the 2003 film Afro-Punk was a somber study of blackness in the punk scene, BLKGRLSWURLD is a celebration of black womanhood in the same space.
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First, there's the presence of The Doll, a gift from her grandmother that, in quinces, symbolizes the last doll a young woman entering womanhood will ever have.
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Otherwise, she looks forward to growing out her hair and discovering "what will make her feel like she can embody womanhood" without the government's interference, he said.
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I want more women to be more secure and embrace their sexuality and their womanhood and be powerful and feel safe, even though it's really hard sometimes.
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Lyrically revolving around womanhood, ravenous media voyeurism, being horny and getting absolutely battered, it's a whirlwind of nihilism dressed up as the best night of your life.
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First published in 1973, this guide to womanhood — from abortion, to marriage, to art, to self-defense — was an influential text of the second-wave feminist movement.
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Released on August 30 by the Tennessee-based Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (CBMW), the statement declares, unequivocally, that queer sexual orientations are sins to God.
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This globally televised showdown, Riggs hoped, would deliver feminism an overhead smash and dispatch all of womanhood "back to the kitchens and bedrooms," once and for all.
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"The Life of Charlotte Brontë," published in 1857, is a portrait of a paragon of Victorian womanhood: humble, passionless, pious, the dutiful daughter of a difficult father.
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Sexuality, womanhood, and the psychological disparities between New York and her hometown in Southern Florida are some of the central and recurring themes in Molly Matalon's photographs.
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The standards of beauty and emblems of womanhood pushed onto Archer by a visually stimulated male society are turned back around and used, quite literally, against men.
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Suffragists didn't always agree on how the movement should represent womanhood in general, but the clamor over the right to vote seemed to quiet these ideological divisions.
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Three students approached me — one about a poetry fellowship, another about a poem about trampolines and the Nigerian student about a poem she was writing on womanhood.
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The program, to be led by the best-selling author Emma Straub, will feature four of the book's contributors reading their work and discussing writing and womanhood.
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What is needed for a Senate Republican to speak courageously: lame-duck status like Mr. Corker, grave illness like Senator John McCain, womanhood like Senator Susan Collins?
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Of course the stereotypical view of black womanhood embedded in that fantasy is part of what "Hidden Figures" is attacking, and Henson is central to that attack.
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Ms. Valk's Johnston, who began the play reading from "Lesbian Nation," ends with a hopeful passage from the same book about rewriting the ancient myths of womanhood.
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We started the series with Sophie as a girl, and now she's going to be thrown into womanhood quickly because of her struggles with knowing the truth.
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Author Sady Doyle, on the other hand, helpfully dismantled the essentialist arguments for indelibly linking menstruation, and by extension, the packaging of menstruation-related products, to womanhood.
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Her work also includes two memoirs: "Borrowed Finery" (210), about her peripatetic childhood, and "The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe" (21978), about her young womanhood.
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Why not offer a critical consideration of Ms. Trump and the political uses, as well as the historical precedents, of her carefully cultivated image of white womanhood?
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What emerges is a nightmarish look at womanhood that predates the Salem witch trials and condemns the repression of female power and sexuality in all its forms.
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There is no inherent unhappiness to womanhood, or to fatness, or to blackness, or to anything else that American beauty standards have long treated as a problem.
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The DNC didn't just nominate the first woman to lead a major party's presidential ticket; it also celebrated Hillary Clinton's womanhood and her more feminine leadership styles.
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Even though Tambor avoided that cliché, he tended to process Maura's womanhood through a kind of secondhand shop of the self — all of her trembling hand gestures and soft-spoken lines of dialogue felt as if he had filtered them through a lens of both trans women he had consulted, and whatever understanding he had of womanhood as a white man (and alleged serial sexual harasser) born in 1944.
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The team had a similar discussion about the hormone monstress, a vision in furry womanhood who screams just as much as she cries and loves Lana Del Rey.
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Though Lively isn't the first woman to speak about allowing more realistic portrayals of womanhood on screen, not all women have equal access to this kind of representation.
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I want to talk a little bit about the experiences of being, at times, the only Black person in these predominantly white spaces and also about Black womanhood.
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While we should celebrate the freedom of people to express their gender, dividing society on those grounds reduces manhood and womanhood to the clothes we choose to wear.
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On repeat listens, it gets harder and harder to figure out what is a character sketch, born of the experiences of womanhood, and what's taken from real life.
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The Nutcracker is about Clara Stahlbaum's journey to a land of fantasy, her last grasp of at childhood magic as she toes the line between girlhood and womanhood.
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It's another to allow others to define your womanhood for you, because it often means living a life that makes others comfortable rather than one that empowers you.
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Related: Frozen Food Photos Tantalize the Senses with Unexpected Forms 'MOON' Photo Series Is an Ode to Nature and Womanhood Rainbow-Schmeared Unicorn Toast Brings Whimsy to Breakfast
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Black women can have very different experiences of being a woman than white women do, and straight women can have very different experiences of womanhood than lesbians do.
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To open the show with this sport-referencing story was a nod to strength and modern womanhood — as seen through the trend-savvy lens of athleisure and streetwear.
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Robinson, who received her BFA in 2012, transforms fabric, paint, and found materials into poignant investigations into race, womanhood, and the everyday struggles faced by young, emerging artists.
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To deny the change we have seen from brands over the past 10 years — to embrace a far more diverse vision of womanhood — is to be willfully blind.
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But O'Flaherty's chances will undoubtedly hinge on her ability to conform, in many ways, to what remains a heteronormative and Eurocentric ideal of American womanhood and physical beauty.
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The film, also starring Regina Hall and Tiffany Haddish, follows the four women as they attempt to rekindle sisterhood and rediscover their womanhood while on a trip together.
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That's down to the show's success in its understanding of girlhood—not just as a prelude to womanhood, but an ongoing process of trying to figure yourself out.
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Gloria Steinem is more than a feminist icon: She is an 83-year-old unicorn who has spent her life bucking the social conventions that define modern womanhood.
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Comedians Jo Firestone and Aparna Nancherla have been working tirelessly to provide their viewers with a roadmap through the many stages of womanhood in their RIOT YouTube series.
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Rachel Held Evans is a New York Times best-selling author whose books include Faith Unraveled (2010), A Year of Biblical Womanhood (2012), and Searching for Sunday (2015).
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In a way, that makes the new Wonder Woman a surrogate for a certain strain of modern womanhood: the idea that anything less that outright perfection is failure.
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Related: Demonic Geishas Wrestle Ghoulish Reptiles in These Anime-Inspired Murals Embroidery Artist Weaves Memes with Modern Feminism [NSFW] Violent Erotic Drawings Explore the Primal Sides of Womanhood
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"Today, I pass on this emblematic figure of womanhood and of consecrated life to the whole world of volunteers: May she be your model of holiness," Francis said.
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But though she was initially dismissed as yet another example of a harmful depiction of Jewish womanhood, Shosh's complex character evolution over the show's seven seasons proved otherwise.
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Dorthe Nors sets out to do just that in So Much for That Winter, a pair of novellas about navigating middle age and womanhood in the 21st Century.
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She lingers, ghost-like, in the walls, in an unwanted state of arrested development, wondering when or if she might be allowed to resume her journey into womanhood.
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Like Lizzie Fletcher, who defeated Forever Congressman John Culberson in the Houston area, Ms. Hegar managed to combine new and old ideas of Texas womanhood in her campaign.
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Stonewall: 50 Years Later The author and professor of English talks about going from boys' camp to womanhood and expressing love and support for her own trans daughter.
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If there's any way to escape this double bind and establish some agency, it may be to approach womanhood like Flynn does, as just another perversity among many.
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Because white womanhood has culturally been treated as the standard, white women are most at risk for being involuntarily defined as princesses, and denied their autonomy and strength.
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The beauty of butchness is that it creates its own category, one that stands apart from patriarchal standards and celebrates new versions of womanhood and non-binary identity.
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It will also force you to reckon with the artistic significance of gender and to consider just how much Rama's womanhood informed the frenzy that fired her art.
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The story of the evolving emotions and thoughts of a young girl who reaches womanhood and falls in love with an older man evokes a great romantic love.
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They were stigmatized then as they are today for their failure to live up to the shifting dictates of whatever "real" manhood or womanhood means in their moment.
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Most of the revolutionary leaders were young men who identified the revolution with womanhood; many of them were men in love who identified particular women with the revolution.
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" It's also in the lyrics to country supergroup the Highwomen's "Redesigning Women," which describes the unending labor of womanhood as "working hard to look good 'til we die.
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The show includes stand-up from Aparna Nancherla and Jo Firestone, hosts of the web series "Womanhood," which features their thoughts on everything from puberty to aqua cycling.
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Though her art flourished there, it was the place inside her mind, shaped by childhood fan-tasies and fears, mental illness, womanhood and motherhood, where she found inspiration.
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The afflictions of contemporary womanhood rain down like battering hailstones on the unhappy London of Penelope Skinner's "Linda," which opened on Tuesday night at the Manhattan Theater Club.
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That moment was a reminder—your womanhood can be used as a weapon to reduce you first and foremost to a "nice smile," or a pussy to grab.
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The 14-year-old actress plays a character who, yes, is deaf, but is also dealing with the very relatable concerns of any girl on the cusp of womanhood.
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On the other, you have her only friend, Amelia Sedley (Romola Garai), the daughter of an upper-middle class family, and the stand-in for staid 19th century womanhood.
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She was simultaneously virginal yet sexy, career-focused yet domestic, elegant yet approachable; she didn't just "enjoy being a girl" — she presented an uncomplicated, nigh-mythical image of womanhood.
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But after meeting Lynette, I saw how much pride she took in her butch womanhood, which wasn't some androgynous nowhere zone — femininity's absence — but a whole universe unto itself.
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He cries at the idea of his baby leaving home; he feels awkward hugging his little girl and feeling her womanhood get in the way of their warm embrace.
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Read these stories next:RIOT's Aparna Nancherla Talks Growing Up & Stand-Up ComedyRIOT's Phoebe Robinson Talks Funny Ladies, Woke Baes & Jesse Williams's BET SpeechRIOT's Jo Firestone Talks Womanhood & Growing Up
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Have you experienced a pregnancy loss, an abortion, or any other concern due to that pre-existing condition called womanhood which ended up costing a crazy amount of money?
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With Massey's personal stories woven in, All the Lives I Want is a poignant examination of public womanhood, and what happens to those who step outside its acceptable bounds.
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Because, as we've seen over the last decade, the more chances women get to actually create television, the more honest depictions of womanhood we get splashed across our screens.
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"I wanted to showcase that no matter where you are at in your life, shape or size you can exude that confidence and sexuality in your womanhood!" she added.
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The scene plays out like a chess game, with Mary calling on their shared womanhood as a basis for agreement while Elizabeth, older and more world-weary, draws back.
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Meanwhile, Sharp Objects' Adora is what happens when these young girls made to feel powerless grow into womanhood and the accompanying societal pressure to fulfill their ultimate feminine duty.
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By reclaiming the instincts of the female vampire, which once mirrored patriarchy's fear of femininity, we are now, finally, able to sink our teeth into broader definitions of womanhood.
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That's what you see in Santiago Muñoz's work—she's uncovering notions that, right now, are critical in Puerto Rico, ideas about the military and autonomy, about witchcraft and womanhood.
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I think this movie is very much about womanhood in some ways, and what it means to be a woman, so there was a lot of life imitating art.
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It doesn't require any kind of degree in semiotics to acknowledge this mythologically, symbolically, or historically—a giant stabbing weapon is pretty much the last thing that womanhood represents.
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The moment she takes her seat she knows she can't get into harm unless she gets off her bicycle, and away she goes, the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.
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When we have these conversations of sexual harassment or rape, a lot of the time, black women feel like they have to choose between their blackness or their womanhood.
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I shouldn't have to disclose my vaginal status to confirm my womanhood—especially not when that also throws my trans sisters who haven't had genital surgery under the bus.
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A Seat at the Table was a success both culturally and critically, proving an authentic sketch of black womanhood could permeate mainstream conversations—but could Solange do it again?
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Then, too, he hadn't stirred, and I'd felt frustrated and alone, all on my own in the crush of the holiday crowd, freighted with grapes and milk and womanhood.
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Current discussions of feminism have evolved, and "girl power" can feel a little simplistic in an era of intersectional feminism and more nuanced ideas about what womanhood actually means.
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On the one hand, we have scam artist Anna Delvey hitting public consciousness, and few seemed compelled to qualify her badness, to use her womanhood to mitigate her criminality.
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Like Francie and Holden before her, Lucy, a street-smart, superlative basketballer vulnerable to the perils of approaching womanhood, is too carefully drawn to be equated with anyone else.
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She's the image of what he was holding up as the perfect symbol of womanhood and femininity, including all of her intelligence and fascination with larger ideas about life.
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The poems Ms. Silver wrote before her illness, published in literary journals like The Iowa Review and Image magazine, explored religion, love, womanhood, spirituality, the body and other subjects.
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From young womanhood onward, Ms. Ross's passion for journalism never wavered, and she was eager to impart to younger generations what she had learned on the job about writing.
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The "Lemonade" album will stand the test of time and if the Grammys cannot recognize the beauty of black womanhood and culture through music, we don't need them either.
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The show "sends up American ideals about Latino culture in the same vein as [Amy] Schumer did with modern American womanhood," Trish Bendix wrote in The New York Times.
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There were bright parts, like Rosie's conversations about womanhood and freedom with Elsa in the attic, but on the whole I kept having an impulse to check my phone.
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Trans author Jay Hulme recently described in a recent blog post why and how gender-critical feminists work to get trans men to "return to womanhood" and ultimately detransition.
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"But Hennick points out that "there's been a conversation about sort of women's changing roles and identities and sort of the changing definitions or expectations of womanhood or motherhood.
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They have created a new cult of true womanhood, one in which the body can be endlessly upgraded for optimal sexual attractiveness even as it produces ever more offspring.
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The show "sends up American ideals about Latino culture in the same vein as [Amy] Schumer did with modern American womanhood," Trish Bendix wrote in The New York Times.
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But the French Girl myth can also reinforce the belief that there is, and always will be, a more perfect form of womanhood than whatever you have going on.
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"If you think about the History Portraits, she's dressing up as amalgams of paintings that were done by men to propagate a certain idea of womanhood," Rajaratnam tells Creators.
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For a long time, we gravitated towards villainesses because they were our only option for on-screen portrayals of female complexity in a world viewed through male conceptions of womanhood.
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You know, I really tried to focus on the work, but it always astonished me that there were a few times when I did feel compelled to represent all womanhood.
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In these stories and essays, the hybrid form is ultimately a compelling memoir as Coleman explores the transition between adolescence and womanhood paired with conversations about identity, race, and grief.
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She photographs women comfortably being themselves, and is known for capturing body hair, curves, stretch marks, and other aspects of womanhood (like menstruation) that are often ignored in mainstream media.
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All the blood spilled in Sharp Objects represents the deadly consequences of expecting women and girls to reflect ideals of femininity rather than allowing them the full spectrum of womanhood.
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"Confronting White Womanhood," like a lot of activism focusing on white women in the past two years, wasn't just about getting white women to vote around issues that affect them.
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But at every point in her career, she's been just enough out of step with the conventions of American womanhood that a certain segment of the electorate vehemently hates her.
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For a truly egregious example, consider Jared Leto's (Oscar-winning!) work in Dallas Buyers Club, where womanhood is treated as something his character puts on and takes off at will.
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But in Black Panther, Gurira plays another kind of female warrior — one who wields her womanhood as a strength, and casts femininity in a whole new light in the process.
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And they want to stop being forced to defend their womanhood, their basic sense of self, and their humanity, against people who consider those things to be up for debate.
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For all the years she spent playing a character buoyed by female friendship, Sarah Jessica Parker told Marie Claire the truth about her own thoughts about the politics of womanhood.
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A mood not simply characterized by self-care, but more so by a forceful womanhood and the defiant refusal to be reduced to a mere figment of the male gaze.
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At the very end of her performance, Beyoncé's dancers laid on the stage to form the universal symbol for woman — a perfect close to "Formation," a song celebrating black womanhood.
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The films — Jovanka Vukovic's The Box, Annie Clark's (aka St. Vincent)The Birthday Party, Roxanne Benjamin's Don't Fall and Karyn Kusama's Her Only Living Son – interrogate the anxieties of womanhood.
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Eventually, Arquette decided to use their career to bring national attention to trans issues with the 2007 documentary Alexis Arquette: She's My Brother, which chronicled their physical transformation into womanhood.
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From refusing to wear a swimsuit in public to breaking the race barrier, these women proved that a contest committed to retrograde fantasies of American womanhood sometimes creates beautiful mutineers.
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A hilarious comedian in her own right, Jessi Klein's book is a collection of stories from her awkward childhood and thoughts on 21st century womanhood that are relatable as hell.
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While you and I might see these Mary transformations as something cute, even kitschy, for the artist it's an examination of womanhood, of spirituality, of customs and habits (pun intended).
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Sometimes her drawings tackle the everyday struggles of womanhood, such as uncomfortable shoes and objectification, but Muslimova really shines when abandoning reality altogether and illustrating kooky contortions of female anatomy.
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"I'm slowly coming into my womanhood," Jenner says in the season 2 trailer, over images of the star trying on wedding gowns and peering at her post-transition driver's license.
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If I, as a Black woman, am free to love and be loved, then Black womanhood must be recognized as full personhood that cannot be bound by an oppressive state.
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But he says white women's shift toward Democrats in the 2018 elections suggest a larger swath of white women may be starting to feel a stronger allegiance to their womanhood.
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She explained that the big sporty pieces wanted to symbolically defend the women wearing them while the light details were included for them to be able to express their womanhood.
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The piece is a jeremiad against trans-inclusive feminism, combining condemnation of American university discourse with a reiteration of the conventional view of biology as the defining experience of womanhood.
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The footage for the visual album includes the birthday speech of Hattie White, Jay Z's 22019-year-old grandmother, who was the inspiration for Beyoncé's dissertation on Southern Black womanhood.
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A young girl can be seen dancing at her quinceañera, a celebratory occasion in Latino culture for a girl's 23th birthday — a symbol of the passage from childhood to womanhood.
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Stuzo has an unmatched collection of graphic tees and hoodies celebrating blackness, queerness, and womanhood — communities that founders Stoney Michelli and Uzo Ejikeme continually strive to lift up and showcase.
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"Intersectionality simply means that there are lots of different parts to our womanhood," Brittney Cooper, an assistant professor of women's and gender studies and Africana studies at Rutgers University, explained.
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"The fashion industry should stay away from othering trans women and making us look like this marketable adversary to womanhood," Selcuk said, adding that Graham doesn't do that at all.
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So what I negotiate when people write on me is that I don't want anything written that invalidates my womanhood—nothing too physically violent, like about wanting to kill me.
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Among the artists invited to pay homage to Valentina is painter and photographer Jude Harzer, who has long explored the idea of womanhood and found common ground with Crepax's imaginary.
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What's happening at Celine is the replacement of one vision of womanhood — the comfortable, grown-up kind that often gets called "intellectual" — with one that prizes youth and unkempt cool.
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Is there some set of core experiences distinctive of womanhood, some shared set of adventures and exploits that every woman will encounter on her journey from diapers to the grave?
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From their beautiful brains have sprung such comedic joys as Ms. Nancherla and Ms. Firestone's YouTube videos about the trials and triumphs of womanhood and Ms. Higgins's podcast about immigration.
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Journey From a Chinese Orphanage to a Jewish Rite of Passage (2007) Many Chinese girls adopted by U.S. families are ready to complete the rite of passage into Jewish womanhood.
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Now, in season 3 of Amazon's acclaimed show, the characters have arrived in 1960, bringing with them a new set of social mores, political strife, and changing expectations of womanhood.
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" They reference Adrienne Rich's work on compulsory heterosexuality to point out that "womanhood is often imagined as something that follows from men, rather than existing apart from or alongside them.
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But it is increasingly clear to the reader that these young women have simply been raised to fit their patriarch's ideal of what pure, fragile, privileged white womanhood should be.
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Even someone like Akira, who decided early on that she didn't want children and wanted to focus more on her career, is impacted by our culture's limited notions of womanhood.
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By heavens, you are safe at last with Wild Bill, who is ever ready to risk his life and die, if need be, in defense of weak and defenseless womanhood!
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Their relationship is an opposites-attract friendship that boils down to the two tidy categories of womanhood: you can be meek and domestic, or you be can be egomaniacal and vain.
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Instead, the research focused on instances of hate speech, where language "intentionally attacked and offended" and "language where womanhood is being undermined", Ed Crook — lead researcher on the study — told Mashable.
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And especially in its early seasons, the show seemed to imply that the best response to the injustices of Westerosi womanhood was to act like a man and cut some throats.
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She's coping with the loss of a beloved friend, knowing she could be next, and juggling her womanhood and her blackness with caring for a community while also caring for herself.
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Parrilla pointed out the fact that young women who grew up watching the series, and the complicated journeys of its many heroines, have been changed by these complex portrayals of womanhood.
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In our latest Shatterbox Anthology film, Pinky, directors Roja Gashtili and Julia Lerman spotlight a critical conversation about the corrosive, and often uncomfortable, social pressures faced by young girls entering womanhood.
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You can tell this video was directed by a woman because when was the last time you saw such an unabashed celebration of multiple facets of womanhood that wasn't overtly sexual?
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The kind who's thought to be spending her days eating Bon-Bons or flipping tables; instead she's having a second breakfast with her best friends to vent about motherhood and womanhood.
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It's hard to tell which of society's messages about womanhood these middle school girls have internalized, and the roles race, class, and sexuality play on their ideas of beauty and femininity.
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Just when I thought I had her figured out as a self-actualized version of Black womanhood that I think we should all aspire to, she upped the ante once again.
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A grave marked "A noble type of good heroic womanhood" was written for Nellie Spindler, a 26-year-old nurse who was killed in France during the shelling of a hospital.
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And if Texas doesn't respect women enough to give them accurate health information or access healthcare, it's clear the state's larger conception of what constitutes "womanhood" may be a bit flawed.
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What emerges is a portrait not just of a creative maverick, but also of an artist who constantly negotiated her womanhood and strove to tell the stories of ordinary black women.
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Many women are unhappy with their bodies—in Western consumer society, to be unhappy with some aspect of your body might almost be thought of as a normative condition of womanhood.
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" In contemporary popular culture, Faludi writes, you are supposed to take people at their word about their identity: "The womanhood of male-to-female transsexuals was asserted as an inviolable absolute.
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Grappling with the pressures of young womanhood, she finds that although classical music "gives a girl weight in a world that wants her to be weightless," faking it is not enough.
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In 1983, some thirty years into Lagerfeld's career, the owners of Chanel hired him to jazz up the brand, and he succeeded wildly, though, unlike its creator, he never reimagined womanhood.
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Solange's wildly introspective work on A Seat at the Table detailing black womanhood under the cultural duress of 2016 was so profound that we're still talking about it two years later.
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Nelson writes the reflections on partnership, family, womanhood, and pleasure that our society is so quick to call dirty or shameful, only to normalize them as the ultimate shared human experiences.
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Shudu, a "digital fabrication" that Mr. Wilson modeled on the Princess of South Africa Barbie, was called "a white man's digital projection of real-life black womanhood" by The New Yorker.
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The notorious "helicopter parent," the meddling mother, the critical mother-in-law — these are all tropes at least as pervasive and unchallenged as any Madonna and Child image of manifest womanhood.
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Aparna Nancherla and Jo Firestone, stars of the web series "Womanhood," will host this variety-show-style benefit for the Brooklyn Free Clinic, a volunteer-run medical center for uninsured patients.
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Part of that is down to Ricci's deeply relatable performance as a girl on the cusp of womanhood, building on the skills she'd already demonstrated in 1994's Now and Then.
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A card with a drawing of a delicate female with long, black locks and a pert, upturned nose enjoined me to enjoy "the essence of womanhood" — flowers and soap, I guess.
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Her skits and monologues, which regularly draw from her Indian heritage and experience as a child of immigrants, cover a range of topics, including dating (especially intercultural dating), womanhood and friendship.
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Historians attribute much of the focus on gender to the world's definitive witch-hunting manual the Malleus Maleficarum, or Hammer of Witches, which established a strong link between womanhood and witchcraft.
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The 14-article document, dubbed the "Nashville Statement," was released by the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (CBMW) on Wednesday, focusing primarily on issues of gender and same-sex marriage.
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On each episode of the show, which premiered on on May 7, the three women offer an intergenerational approach to a range of topics, many of which are directly related to womanhood.
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As Lili, he was at once vulnerable and selfish, masculine and feminine, so incredibly attuned to the performance of womanhood that I found myself noticing the way I behave as a woman.
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This season, our favorite moments have come when the women of the cast seem to go out on their own, creating lady-centric sketches that speak to the darker side of womanhood.
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But while the film dives headfirst into the experience of transgender womanhood, it's also rooted in the realism of a tragic love story and the complex, resilient personality of its title character.
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In a period characterized by cultural and sociopolitical turbulence, Day's iconic style was a fixture, an edifice built on an archaic view of womanhood which left little room for flexibility or reinvention.
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So when she wanted to explore a question such as, "what does womanhood mean to me?" or "how does the Virgin Mary fit into the American Western landscape?" she looked to dance.
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Some of us wore what we wear every day, and some of us wore our nicest things out, but all of us came with the intention to be recognized for our womanhood.
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Drawing on the works of feminism past, the artists envision a female future that involves understanding the intersection of gender with all aspects of daily life, and womanhood as a multifaceted entity.
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Despite having only three episodes under its belt, the new Freeform series has already addressed female mentorship, the complex realities of Muslim womanhood, sexuality, and class, just to name a few things.
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The conflicting messages of millennial womanhood: to be ambitious but never bossy, strong but skinny, honest but polite, supportive of my fellow sisters' success while the culture gets off on girl fights.
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But in the middle of the gender-fluidity revolution, I've also found myself trying to figure out my relationship to my own womanhood, which has been fraught for most of my life.
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Over the course of six years, she documented them as they navigated their way from childhood to womanhood while living in a deeply religious community where sexuality and feminine growth was stymied.
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Although Liv and Annalise are just as bad as their white, male counterparts, their crossover illustrates their unapologetic Black womanhood as well, something that can sometimes go overlooked on their respective series.
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The digital platform began with a T-shirt emblazoned with the phrase, inspired by the idea that while #BlackGirlMagic is great, Black women deserve to revel in the space of their womanhood.
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Notably, it sends a rather radical "f-you" to a society steeped in gender inequality — a society that often tells women to see each other not in shared womanhood, but as enemies.
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She's a wildly famous human who managed to steathily film more than a dozen videos that celebrate herself and black womanhood, a celebration made more potent by the absence of an invitation.
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But the fact that most still cast a Trump ballot illustrates the degree to which womanhood is not a universal category, and shows that race animates voting patterns even more than gender.
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But I didn't put weight on whether boys thought I was pretty, so I didn't relate my femininity or my early introduction to womanhood with the male gaze or anything like that.
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Ideally, we will follow the lead of Fu, who showed us that sometimes our most powerful act is just to stand proudly in all of our womanhood, being our authentic, beautiful selves.
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"When Black women affirm Blackness/Black womanhood, they are attacked and silenced," says the posting, which invites women to dress in outfits inspired by the "Formation" video or the Super Bowl performance.
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Related: A Young Filmmaker Gives Love a New Face It's Illegal to Be Perfect in This Perfectly Dystopian Short Film The Everyday Perils of Womanhood Come Alive in a Harrowing Short Film
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When racist violence kills their children, black women are called forth to perform a version of womanhood that is meant to convince white people they value motherhood and to soothe white fear.
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So when an artist that is unapologetically themselves chooses to celebrate what makes them different — including celebrating our Blackness and how we define womanhood — honoring them is the least we can do.
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The court ruled, in effect, that punishing a woman for failing to conform to her employer's notion of "womanhood" was just as discriminatory as treating her poorly because she was a woman.
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She demands that Susan watch a graphic video of her Thai surgery, but speaks of womanhood in shallow clichés, happily embracing the sort of sexist stereotypes Faludi has spent her life fighting.
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This new controversy raises more concerns about how accurately and responsibly Jenner presents her own community, especially considering the danger that trans women face when the "realness" of their womanhood is challenged.
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That was dedicated by a man who took pleasure in beating a black woman on our campus, that was erected by a group who praised the KKK as protectors of white womanhood.
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For every Wonder Years or Friday Night Lights, there are seemingly a dozen good-to-great shows about teenage girls transitioning from girlhood to womanhood and rolling their eyes at their moms.
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She later attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has since published volumes of poetry that explore the connection between spirituality, nature and womanhood, with a focus on Native American history and experience.
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De Robertis says we don't see the full picture of womanhood or what goes on behind the scenes, so the work resembles advertising tropes where the sexualization of women's bodies is omnipresent.
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Even as they vividly depict the perversion of political policy, this body of feminist dystopian writing is at risk of closing on a reified version of womanhood: sensationalized, suffering, and overwhelmingly white.
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He hates women who dare to stand up to him and push back against him, so he attacks them, not just on the issues but on the validity of their very womanhood.
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REDEFINING REALNESS (2014)My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love, and So Much MoreBy Janet Mock In her first memoir, Janet Mock describes coming of age and transitioning as a young transgender girl.
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Comedy Aparna Nancherla and Jo Firestone, stars of the web series "Womanhood," will host this variety-show-style benefit for the Brooklyn Free Clinic, a volunteer-run medical center for uninsured patients.
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But more than that, Greenwood's score helps to tell a story of womanhood that slowly reveals itself within what seems, at first, to be a standard romantic drama celebrating tempestuous male genius.
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I don't know if it is the age I am at—I am turning 29 this year—and just really wanting to come into womanhood and letting a lot of things go.
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Her recently published book, You'll Grow Out of It, is an entertaining read, full of her own life stories and funny observations and analogies on womanhood (are you a poodle or a wolf?).
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She's an unapologetically ambitious status seeker who schemes her way up the ladder of early 19th century England high society, transgressing the conventions of soft, meek, and maternal womanhood that dominated her age.
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While Metroid was hailed as ground-breaking for daring to put a woman at the center of a video game, womanhood is similarly central to how Alien flips the script on gendered horror.
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The artist, who trained as a graphic designer, confirmed in an interview that a four-year period spent in Italy exposed her to the idealized representations of womanhood by the likes of Botticelli.
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Historically, Black womanhood has been inseparable from motherhood, with Black female slaves expected to have children in order to create more slaves, and later relegated to domestic labor that included midwifery and childcare.
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The Favorite Sister, Knoll's follow-up to the wildly successful Luckiest Girl Alive, is a thriller concerned with questions of female ambition, expectations of womanhood, and the commodification of girl-on-girl rivalries.
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After my partner came out as nonbinary a couple years ago, I felt even more confused and guilty about my conflicting desires to both lean into my own womanhood and flee from it.
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In a new spot for Kenzo World Le Nouveau Parfum, Spike Jonze trashes all the typical fragrance-ad tropes (finally, no more sexy voiceover!) for a modern and inspiring take on badass womanhood.
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If you are wondering what the word 'acrimony' actually means, though, the specific brand of Black womanhood that Perry is known to deploy in his shows and movies is a pretty good clue.
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While the world at large may not, I love and cherish non-normative womanhood in all its presentations and, for me at least, a lot of how that manifests comes down to hair.
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Talented and smart women as they are, we need a more diverse model of womanhood that lifts our daughters beyond the realm of entertainment, or even a higher step up the corporate ladder.
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If white womanhood is terrifying because it obfuscates evil, then white motherhood is more so, because it creates villains with more to lose—villains that use their children to justify their heinous behavior.
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When society decides a man can legitimately be a woman just because he "feels" like a woman, grows his hair long, gets breast implants, and wears makeup, then society has officially denigrated womanhood.
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Viewing Lemonade is a ritual of honor toward Black womanhood; Kanye fans come together to be understood (and sometimes disappointed) at his shows; a Trey Songz set is a night of feminine sensuality.
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With a tucked Basque waist, and a spray of flowers descending diagonally across its wide crinoline skirt, the long peach-colored dress is perfect for a girl feeling the first blush of womanhood.
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But when I think of the women in my family before me, I reclaim my own personal narrative, and position myself in the narrative of womanhood that trans women are so often denied.
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The result is Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg, a lively history of Luxemberg's life and fine blend of Evans' other areas of thematic interests of feminism, class tensions and womanhood.
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In the latest episode of Womanhood for RIOT, hosts Aparna Nancherla and Jo Firestone address these fears and stereotypes in a funny (and bizarre) glimpse into what the ominous decade holds for women.
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Hearing Ms. Cattrall analyze the pejorative implication of the term "childless" (while discussing modern womanhood on another BBC program) feels like pressing a cold compress into the hot, black space behind your eyes.
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They acquiesced (although I wouldn't go every week), and with that I entered a new era of womanhood in my family, ushered into a routine that helped us bond on a deeper level.
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You do get transgender men, like the boxer Thomas Page McBee, celebrating his "newly weaponized body," which might sound like a threat to women if he hadn't been originally gender-assigned to womanhood.
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" Traditional conceptions of "masculine" and "feminine" can be alienating, they say, "not only to people on the queer spectrum, gender identity-wise, but also to people who don't experience womanhood as something receptive.
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Shonda and our writers opened up a whole rainbow of womanhood on screen and we got to be all of our colors, beautiful and horrible and driven and vulnerable and courageous and terrified.
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Mary Tyler Moore, whose witty and graceful performances on two top-rated television shows in the 1960s and '70s helped define a new vision of American womanhood, died on Wednesday in Greenwich, Conn.
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It's easy for cis people to mock both her and her gender identity, leaving many trans people in the frustrating position of defending Jenner's womanhood while denouncing, well, nearly everything else about her.
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Before Kendrick was protesting police brutality and the American carceral state on the Grammy stage or Beyonce served us an ode to black womanhood in the form of Lemonade, there was Janet Jackson.
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In the first season, especially, Murphy's brand of tough womanhood is contrasted, frequently, with the younger, cuter Corky (Faith Ford), a beauty queen who takes a career in the news media somewhat for granted.
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Whether they are murderous stay-at-home wives, windowed reality stars or a newly-minted art world icon, Helen's protagonists all ask similar questions: how do you define womanhood, is perfection even worth it?
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It feels almost like a tragedy that men are still stuck believing in one ideal of womanhood, chasing the physically unattainable, while women have gotten creative with a thousand different ways to achieve pleasure.
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The exhibition features 20 small paintings, each no larger than an index card, completed entirely out of potions and elixirs strongly associated with womanhood and femininity: make up, nail polish, perfume, and hair products.
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An evocative wisp of a novel, it could easily be called "a meditation" on many things: female friendship, black womanhood and sexuality, death and memory, religion and morality, societal pressure and expectations, and more.
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For the longest time, such an unexpected allegory for burgeoning womanhood would be relegated to the least-attractive time slot on some forgotten network or ignored by the television powers that be all together.
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Womanhood didn't seem so bad with our backs straight and shoulders squared as if to ward off our deepest fears and insecurities; our heads floating away from our bodies, led by our noses, heavenward.
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It's been almost 20 years since the premiere of "Sex and the City," the show that fixed her star in Manhattan's sky and made her character, Carrie Bradshaw, the avatar of self-serving womanhood.
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And at the quinceañera, which marks the transition from childhood to young womanhood, guests sat at tables, dressed in white and red linens, near vendor and party tents while enjoying dinner, desserts and dancing.
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In Black's work, black womanhood is not stated as an ultimate truth with a beginning or an end, but rather as a continuum of questions, broken illusions, contested histories, false starts, and new beginnings.
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It seeks to present Arab and Iranian womanhood "far removed from the myths and tales of the 'Persian' Queen Scheherazade and the 'Arabian' One Thousand and One Nights," as the introductory wall text states.
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In fact, Barrie's text sets her up as an aspirational womanly figure, positioning her against competing visions of womanhood in Tiger Lily, a Native American Neverland princess, and Tinker Bell, Peter's fairy best friend.
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The collection itself was hallmarked by old-fashioned motifs of womanhood: fabric roses pinned to a gingham chiffon blouse; painterly tablecloth florals in pretty pastels; neat tweed jackets and coats for a ladylike touch.
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" And, thus, one of the very best sketches of the new series is born: "Execlitive," aka "Boss Ladies," about a piece of vulva-shaped padding you slide into your underwear to "amplify your womanhood.
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And in the second half of the decade, Pamela Adlon offered a different take on American womanhood — that of someone nearing 50 and trying to navigate the twin pressures of a career and motherhood.
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On "Girl," her second album, the pliable singer-songwriter navigates womanhood in lush ballads and powerhouse anthems that paint her, in turns, as a down-home girl-with-guitar and an elegant dynamo diva.
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When you believe that what makes a woman is only her biology, the result is a policing of womanhood and a very narrow academic and ideological perspective of what feminism and gender should be.
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From there, she used women she loved — as friends, family, and romantic partners — as her "muses," portraying Black female sexuality and womanhood through the lens of someone who admired these traits as near-divine.
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The artist delivers powerful messages about race, black womanhood, and other important societal issues with a personal twist so that the listener feels as though they are hearing pages straight from the artist's journal.
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And I've discovered more role models — more solid, shining examples of Blackness and womanhood and confidence that make me feel like the little girl who has yet to learn how to hold a mascara brush.
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In the language of imagination, fertility seems associated with wetness and ripeness; does the supposed drying of the uterus, the loss of brushable hair, or the medicalization of the body mean the loss of womanhood?
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In addition to the edgy style aesthetic that is essentially her birthright, Cobain is also a successful visual artist whose work combines the romantic and the psychedelic, dealing with themes like womanhood, death, and alienation.
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Ivanka's doing her best to maintain a brand of "gentle but strong womanhood," but the people her employer/father are targeting know that even the softest of floral patterns can't mask the smell of Complicit.
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Evans' performance is clearly about physical labor, and specifically about women's work, the labor that they do to maintain a hold on an idealized notion of womanhood, particularly while enduring the duress of stressful tasks.
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The radical-for-its-time idea embedded in that image, and in the film as a whole, was that not only could women be action stars, but they could do it without sacrificing their womanhood.
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It's good to see actresses shine when they're unveiling the little-spoken-about lives of women — but maybe they should get equal props when their womanhood is only a small part of their onscreen story?
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This does not correspond with the dominant view of womanhood in which women are expected to be caring, compliant, and submissive — not to stab their little brother to death with scissors, as Patty Columbo did.
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The girls are agitated to varying degrees by having a man in their midst, including the oldest among them, a teen (Elle Fanning) who may be a little closer to womanhood than her stewards realize.
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"The reaction to her being cast in Ghostbusters has been hysterical and not in terms of humor," says Thompson, whose areas of focus include the dating, working, and general ups and downs of black womanhood.
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Perhaps out of adherence to the Phillip K. Dick source material or the original film, Villeneuve feels he can't give us a vision of womanhood outside of a shallow streetwalker or a femme killing machine.
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The implication: In a country that has never had a female president and where it was a record for women to secure 20 out of 100 Senate seats, womanhood confers some sort of unearned advantage.
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Working-class white women and women of color were excluded from the cult of true womanhood — they always worked, and they never got any kind of societal respect or support for raising their own children.
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Now, as she finishes her pie and cheese, Annie recognizes that "You can go to hell and get it yourself" was the moment when she took charge of her life and stepped bravely into womanhood.
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She has celebrated her black-womanhood, embraced other aching black women, countered militarized law enforcement with her own military costumes and choreography, deployed some voodoo imagery — and has never been nominated for a C.M.A. Award.
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It sounds cliché, but what makes Hustlers a truly Empowering Female Narrative is the depiction of womanhood in all its shades of humanity: beautiful and ugly, powerful and vulnerable, good and corruptible, victims and victimizers.
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At the Women's Convention, for example, a panel titled "Confronting White Womanhood," which discussed the roles white women can play in racism, was so well-attended that organizers decided to repeat it the following day.
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There are distinct economic expressions of "womanhood" and "manhood" that are meant to help us all find a sense of belonging and centeredness in our own genders by spending money on products to affirm them.
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And while she had little interest in the domestic aspects of womanhood—the drudgery that was afflicting American women with Betty Friedan's "problem with no name"—she exalted her own vision of the feminine mystique.
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One thing I always loved about that spirited redhead was that she didn't suppress her ambitions in order to be more "likable," nor did she try to squeeze herself into stereotypical notions of womanhood and femininity.
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It was an unfailingly seductive depiction of a deceptively simplistic view of womanhood — and by pulling it off as well as she did, even today, she still lures us into believing that the myth is real.
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Its drunk narrator put an innovative spin on the popular amnesiac thriller model, but a book where womanhood seems indivisible from victimhood and where motivation stems either from lust or broodiness feels flawed from the outset.
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We are still encouraged to make permanent changes based on ideas of womanhood – to lose weight, remove 'unwanted' hair, correct blemishes – but permanent changes outside those parameters are somehow too permanent and therefore seen as unfeminine.
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This is a story, as you might imagine, about the can-do spirit that cannot be tamed, but it is also about the crushing injustice of womanhood and the bargains made in the face of it.
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Her knack for using youthful materials, including colored pencils, and sketch papers with the textures of brown lunch sacks, to depict the winsome sides of female friendship and womanhood, graces the eye with an effortless charm.
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" Virginity is too often understood in heterosexual terms -- and for people in female bodies, penetrative sex with a man is often seen as the definitive means by which virginity is "lost" and a new womanhood "gained.
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The show's version of the black woman's experience feels pandering and stilted at times: a scrapbooked womanhood that's brimming with wit and complexity, but so deliberately curated that it feels artificial and almost devoid of personality.
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In 2014, the Westin New York Grand Central hotel ran a promotion called "Womanhood Redefined," aimed at women without children and including a consultation about healthful eating with the hotel's executive chef and its running expert.
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The celebration, held in February, had many of the traditional trappings: a Mass, a catered bash with live music, and a ceremony in which Lucero's transition to womanhood was marked by trading her flats for heels.
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To her most loyal fans and listeners (re: Black women), her elevated star power and status meant that for once, the everyday trials and tribulations of Black womanhood were being unabashedly heard on a mainstream level.
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"The Gallow Is God" riff lurches around, nauseated, the only respite to be found in the comforting shade of the willows, a symbol of life and womanhood, but even the leaves " hang like a guillotine blade".
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So, yes, we can acknowledge that there are bodily experiences, potentially elements of the body that validate certain women on an individual level, but we can't allow womanhood to be fully defined by our bodily configurations.
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At every turn, She Who Tells a Story emphasizes the importance of even the most mundane minutia of womanhood, while grounding the larger, more easily abstracted questions of international conflict in the realities of lived experience.
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By demarcating feminism's subject matter — by articulating a concrete category of harms that deserved feminist attention — feminists inadvertently defined womanhood in a manner that implies that there are right and wrong ways to be a woman.
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It has led to the idea that for women to be "beautiful" they must embody a strict set of rules derived from the traditional aesthetics of "womanhood" — rules that embrace makeup, certain silhouettes, and specific hairstyles.
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Just as Swift's songs have charted the milestones of young womanhood—a first date ("Fifteen"), crushing on a best friend ("You Belong with Me")—Sivan's translate the gay coming of age into recognizable rites of passage.
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And the story used terms and phrases, such as "gender dysphoria" and "When I was a woman," in ways that some readers felt misrepresented trans experience and others felt offered a rigid, degrading description of womanhood.
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Even if that means settling into a look that calls to mind a militarized version of 1950s womanhood, one that favors tightly belted coat dresses instead of housedresses, with the passive-aggressive role playing that implies.
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When it comes to Mumsnet's reputation for transphobia, it seems that the very demographics to which Pedersen attributes its success may have resulted in an especially narrow vision of womanhood—one that specifically excludes trans women.
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As a teenage girl who hated wearing dresses, had a short homemade haircut, and wanted to be a skateboarder, Smith's refusal to fit into the cookie cutter version of womanhood legitimized my own sense of self.
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And, in collaboration with a number of photographers, including Awol Erizku, she filled the announcement with references and allusions that position her firmly at the center of a long visual tradition of mothers and of womanhood.
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Pen15, which premieres Friday on Hulu in its entirety, is the rare show that captures that stage of life, balancing gross-out humor with the earnestness and curiosity of two girls in the chrysalis stage of womanhood.
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Likewise, Jules' mom's belief that her daughter is a lesbian isn't so much played for laughs as it is to prove a point about how we perceive women who refuse to conform to preconceived notions about womanhood.
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In this way, DEVICES FOR FILLING A VOID is a an object lesson in contemporary womanhood, largely characterized by a struggle for ownership and agency within a body that patriarchy feels entitled to judge, alter, and violate.
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Many wine-producing regions in Germany pick a wine queen each year, a practice that dates back to the early 20th century when they would wear folksy dirndl dresses and embody the traditional image of German womanhood.
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"I felt the weight of my womanhood in the black church," said Guidry, who has been involved in religion her entire life, and has a Ph.D. in liturgy and homiletics, the art of preaching and writing sermons.
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It's difficult to know what to make of a show like the Whitney Houston Biennial, where the sole determining factor for participating artists is their womanhood (Finley says applications were open to anyone who identifies as such).
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Women are fed a lot of platitudes during their Time Of The Month — your period is a natural sign of your womanhood, it's a beautiful reminder that you can bring life into this world, and so on.
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Goodman's brightly colored tentacles, made of a synthetic material meant to enhance femininity, illustrate how womanhood is and always has been derived from a mythical notion that can only be achieved through the incorporation of nonhuman traits.
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Simone de Beauvoir's famous remark that "a woman is not born, but made" was intended as a criticism of the arduous feminine ideal that deformed women's lives, not as a promise that attaining that ideal conferred womanhood.
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In some strange way, even though The Handmaid's Tale presents the logical endpoint of the churches I grew up in as a horror show, it helped me see the many ways I had come to understand womanhood.
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His work on projects such as Avengers: Age of Ultron and the upcoming Batgirl film also faced criticism, because the portrayals of female characters were less developed and nuanced, hunging on tired tropes of femininity and womanhood.
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Celebrated as an "ode to black womanhood" and a "revolutionary work of black feminism," Beyoncé's visual album, Lemonade (arguably a feature film), was another massive pop culture success that put marginalized identities at its center, and won.
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I mean, even my own jaded heart swelled over the montage of Danvers falling again and again, from girlhood through womanhood, only to get back up as the music soared and she bests her gaslighting male superior.
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Jill Soloway's Emmy-winning comedy-drama returns for a third season to find Maura Pfefferman (Jeffrey Tambor, who just collected his second statuette for the role) fulfilling her own vision of womanhood by undergoing gender-reassignment surgery.
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But it's kind of a shocking one: This version of womanhood—which excludes trans women—doesn't care if you don't feel like making out yet, or if your mom still packs Pokemon fruit snacks in your lunch.
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It features more than 60 writers using vivid imagery and crackling language to embrace their vulnerabilities and push against stereotypes that erase Black women's lived experiences, instead honoring the richly variant forms and stories of Black womanhood.
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And rather than attempting to make sense of the inconsistencies that pervade modern, black womanhood, she revels in their messy complexity, bringing together a book that is able to be and do so many things at once.
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She presents a portrait of emerging womanhood without eliminating the accessories of girlhood, graphically sorting through issues of sexuality, interpersonal angst, and mental health issues out of the material whirl, making serious art out of playful beginnings.
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A MINUS Ashley McBryde: Girl Going Nowhere (Atlantic) The hot country news in tough country womanhood has enough attitude to stick it to every algebra teacher and Church of Christ deacon who ever looked down on her.
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Filled with both poignant and bathetic reflections on the artists' experiences of womanhood and domesticity, the work offered critiques of social expectations of women that today seem like a litany of familiar — if still entirely relevant — grievances.
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It is worth pointing out that this kind of "pussy power" does tend to exclude trans women, and we could always stand to think harder about how to include all forms of womanhood in such feminist celebrations.
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The article, written by one of the paper's publishers, Alexander Manly, became Exhibit A in the case that black men had forgotten their place and represented a clear and present danger to the sanctity of white womanhood.
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We have been told that sex shouldn't be sold, and instead should be given away for free within the bounds of a relationship, like other labors that have been linked to womanhood, such as housework and childcare.
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Or simply girls like herself raised to womanhood in the Midwest, beside a steel mill, in a small house obsessively painted and sluiced with Fels-Naptha as though at any moment they might be forced to leave.
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The movie is based on the first of two follow-ups by David Lagercrantz, also titled (in English) "The Girl in the Spider's Web," suggesting that this character is too lucrative to ever properly mature to womanhood.
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Like Beyonce's Lemonade — which set a standard of excellence at the intersection of Black womanhood, music, and film — Monáe's project is one in which a private artist tantalizes fans by toeing the line between the personal and political.
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Mntambo's ambiguous work can be read as an illustration of both the power of womanhood, the quadripedal pose suggesting wild beasts, and the patriarchal view of women as subservient and — particularly in the case of colonized women — subhuman.
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But this doesn't have a ton to do with the season's ideas about womanhood, performance, and navigating spaces built by men (outside of the very surface-level idea of the network itself being a space built by men).
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In fact, she considers tying your hair up before you eat to be the hallmark of cool womanhood — because nobody can fully commit to something as important as food with a load of hair flopping in their face.
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A trio of leading female architects — Cini Boeri, Elizabeth Diller, and Kazuyo Sejima — lent their ideas to the vision of Miuccia Prada for a collection that embraced all aspects of womanhood, from shapely silhouettes to more structured ones.
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I used to think I wanted to see June and the other women on the show persevere in the face of suffering, because on some level, I believed that to embrace my own womanhood was to embrace suffering.
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The Maryland native has never been shy when it comes to discussing black womanhood, freedom and love—and her lyrics continue this trait, each line delicately cutting through the opaque production and heavy bass that permeates the project.
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Some of them might be expressing themselves in a very similar way, others very different, but the universality of it was that they were all straddling that transition between childhood and womanhood, and experiencing with what it is.
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Her caring devotion, compassion and single-minded focus on working tirelessly toward promoting research on Alzheimer's so that others don't have to go through what her husband went through are exemplary in the annals of womanhood and humanity!
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Through the unabashed pieces, the authors share their journeys of discovering, naming, and demanding fulfillment of their desires, revealing how they shifted through internal and external constructions of sexual yearning and womanhood to uncover their own pleasure patterns.
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It exists as a more progressive foil to the white male coming-of-age genre (inasmuch as the pedestaling of stock character white womanhood is intended to be some kind of relief to the ubiquity of white manhood).
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Garland, a longtime collaborator of Valli's, explained that this season's aesthetic revolved around the idea of a girl's evolution to womanhood — "young skin that looks like it's never seen makeup or highlighter or anything like that," she explained.
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And so I cannot give in to the anger that Sarah Manguso and Darcey Steinke seem to feel about the loss of "privileged, fertile womanhood," as expressed in Manguso's review of Steinke's book about menopause (Books, June 24th).
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Female criminality lies especially front and center in Alias Grace, the upcoming Netflix series based on Margaret Atwood's novel of transgressive womanhood and murder, adapted for screen by Sarah Polley and directed by American Psycho filmmaker Mary Harron.
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There is a distinctly cultlike element to the family dynamics: It is increasingly clear to the reader that these young women have been raised to fit their patriarch's ideal of what pure, fragile, privileged white womanhood should be.
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"Alternatino" stars the "Broad City" alum Arturo Castro in a sketch show (based on his Comedy Central web series) that sends up American ideals about Latino culture in the same vein as Schumer did with modern American womanhood.
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She takes a blank-faced rube of a colleague, played by Sissy Spacek, under her wing, and an enigmatic artist (Janice Rule) becomes the third note in the chord, offering a vision of womanhood as generative, even motherly.
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But Mr. Fierstein is playing Abzug without drag, while still trying to channel her particular brand of womanhood — a combination of intelligence, moxie, Yiddish humor and a savvy understanding of how to maneuver through a sexist power structure.
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Jill Filipovic The high-achieving elder daughter of President-elect Donald J. Trump is, on the surface, a glowing picture of modern American womanhood: a mother of three young children who built a business that bears her name.
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As for Black Mother's organization, Rooney Elmi notes in a Film Comment interview with Allah, the first trimester dredges up Jamaica's colonial past, the second addresses the complexity of womanhood, and the third involves prayer and pondering death.
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Filming: "Don't Be Afraid To Really Show These Women's Bodies" If there is a single question to be lobbied at "Pool," it's why this deep cut of womanhood is actually helmed by a man: High Maintenance director Shaka King.
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Yet they are unified by Knightley's embodiment of them, as well as the larger idea she represents: that of women ostensibly performing a version of proper womanhood — all while quietly negotiating, or cracking under, the weight of doing so.
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Directed by Max Winkler (Ceremony), who co-wrote the script along with Alex McCauley and Matt Spicer (Ingrid Goes West), the dark comedy teeters between an attempt at emancipated womanhood, and the very male gaze it's trying to reject.
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Her roles are a cultural touchstone that have helped us define brilliant stories about womanhood: the charming, uncompromising sex worker in Pretty Woman, a gusty lawyer in Erin Brockovich for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.
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That trend, it seems — much like the terror of womanhood itself — is just getting started: Deadline reports that FX is developing Her Body and Other Parties, the award-winning debut collection of feminist horror stories from Carmen Maria Machado.
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The project's original aim was to depict womanhood in its many forms — unrestricted by age or accepted beauty norms — and to portray women as men had traditionally been photographed, in their professional roles, and at all stages of life.
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If you're thinking that pregnancy is so strictly tied to womanhood, and therefore the stares and comments Sullivan must have gotten throughout his second pregnancy had to have made it more difficult than his first, then you're not alone.
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I didn't feel I had the visual language until now to adequately describe that form of objectification, perhaps because I was undergoing several forms of abjection myself as I was entering womanhood and exploring my own relationship to pain.
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As an Afro-Caribbean Black woman who immigrated to America when I was just 4, visits to my homeland feed my soul and put me in touch with my Blackness and womanhood in a way nothing else ever has.
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"The act of womanhood is a shared one," Autumn Whitefield-Madrano writes in "Face Value: The Hidden Ways Beauty Shapes Women's Lives," a meditation on self-presentation and all that underpins it, densely packed like a pressed powder compact.
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Featuring frank interviews with her parents on race and history, many of the songs are about American blackness, black womanhood, grief and outrage in an openly political — or, some might say, "woke" — way that aestheticized that ongoing national conversation.
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Pink was taken up by a new generation of feminists as an assertion of proud womanhood, a trend that reached a crescendo at the 2017 inauguration when women descended on Washington en masse, flaunting quaintly homespun-looking pussy hats.
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"My dad said another title for this book could've been Tough Shit," Levy gamely mused, and while the shit she's been served is undeniably tough, it also speaks, on a native level, to the often bloody enterprise of womanhood.
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The wanderings of a brush creating cyclical patterns can look biomorphic, just by virtue of their shape (don't all swirls have the potential to look mildly intestinal?), but Applebroog's awareness of her own womanhood is clear across her work.
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The conception of black womanhood that scholars frequently cite — mammy, jezebel or sapphire — is antithetical to the idea of a princess, a cosseted women whose prince comes to sweep her off her feet and solve all of her troubles.
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In a nod to transgender and nonbinary customers, Procter & Gamble said this week that it was removing the Venus symbol, which has historically been associated with womanhood and the female sex, from the wrappers of Always brand sanitary pads.
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British philosopher Kathleen Stock, a self-identifying gender-critical feminist and one of the group's more authoritative figures, has written perhaps half a dozen different manifestos over the past few years on trans exclusion and the definition of womanhood.
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Each artist shared a personal story through a series of visual narratives that represent "a moment, person or event that has impacted their lives as women," according to a Google blog post, while also conveying universal themes of womanhood.
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"Only the BLACK WOMAN can say 'when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me,'" Cooper wrote.
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And with this announcement, she's elevated the social-media birth announcement into art, art that's specific to Beyoncé and all the signifiers bound up in that tightly controlled image she's created: motherhood, sex, money, power, and black American womanhood.
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In honor of International Women's Day, the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star took to her website and app on Thursday to embrace everything she loves about womanhood — and honor "all the strong, sexy and brilliant women" in her life.
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The book looks at her year of "biblical womanhood" in which she participated in acts such as growing out her hair, making her own clothes, obeying her husband, waking up before dawn and camping in the front yard during her period.
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The loudest of these tributes — fittingly, since we're coming off a weekend in which womanhood was celebrated so vigorously — are those hailing the actress' impact as the embodiment of the strong, independent career woman, blazing through stereotypes and workplace conventions.
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"I find it limiting when menstruation is regarded solely as a 'woman's experience,' like when people use phrases such as 'entering womanhood' when referring to menstruation and 'feminine hygiene products' when talking about tampons, pads, or menstrual cups," Lopez wrote.
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Saar famously wrote in one of her letters denouncing Walker that she felt "a sense of betrayal at the hands of a black artist who obviously hated being black," and was therefore, by extension, willing to also betray her womanhood.
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In that electrifying monologue, so provocative the rabbi leaves the hall in disgust, Midge hovers around the same topics she'll explore once she actually makes it to the Gaslight: expectations of womanhood, her parents and, her husband, Joel (Michael Zegan).
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Plus, using a color associated with "youthfulness" to market a product that monetizes the period — the traditional marker of the end of childhood and the beginning of sexual maturity — denies, shushes even, the full-fledged womanhood that a period represents.
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But to the companies making and marketing these apps, please, don't elide this aspect of womanhood by painting it with a trendy, approachable color that turns femininity into ironic girlishness, a period of bodily and emotional rawness into tempered calm.
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Part of the reason I find Joanne the Scammer to be so refreshing is because she aspires to be a version of white womanhood, in addition to the fact that the actor who plays her, Brandon Miller, actually identifies as LGBTQ.
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This is where GLOW excels in season two, in its ideas of womanhood as a kind of performance given to the public, the costume later taken off at home, alone, when nobody but those who love you best can see it.
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I sort of had been living up in like this happy, like air-y space, and I just felt so grounded and rooted, and just this feeling of being a woman, rather than a girl, just like stepping into that womanhood.
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In breaking down this most layered of femininities, that of a queen—both outwardly and emotionally—The Favourite, in and with its own female gaze, is committed to exposing the rituals and expected aesthetics and emotions of womanhood to great payoff.
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By showing women through each other's eyes, antiheroine narratives like Killing Eve offer an escape from male perspectives on womanhood Only Villanelle sees the full extent of Eve's power and capability and — far from feeling threatened — adores her for it.
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But because of the obstacle-strewn experience of black womanhood, I acutely appreciated the magnitude of the occasion, and felt compelled to support Michelle Obama and Amy Sherald — even if that meant giving up the opportunity for meaningful, critical dialogue.
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Lemonade isn't just an invitation to play "true or false" with its lyrical content and Beyoncé's once-impregnable marriage — it's a celebration and close examination of black womanhood and the patterns of oppression that let philanderous men off the hook.
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In the process of watching Piper's struggle to adapt to her new life behind bars, viewers got to know a whole slew of characters who continue to paint a diverse picture of womanhood, humanity, and the culture we live in.
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We have traditionally seen the first lady as the embodiment of American womanhood, but that view is on its way out; largely thanks to Hillary Clinton, we're now more likely to see the first union as a political alliance between equals.
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It was a road trip to answer the following question: What does the rallying cry of sisterhood and the concept of feminism mean when last year, the majority of white, female voters chose whiteness as a political identity over womanhood?
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That diatribe by Sykes is worth quoting as a window into the backlash against #MeToo and empowered women: "I don't buy into radical feminism's crazy definition of modern womanhood and I never did," Sykes wrote on his campaign's Facebook page.
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Among her other books was "A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband Master," which was on The New York Times e-book nonfiction best-seller list.
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" Willingham says, "The upshot of rape myths like those Cosby's defense relies on is that in order to be believable, a rape victim must embody our culture's purest version of normative womanhood: white, guardedly chaste, heterosexual, and, most importantly, silent.
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The large-scale installation of a staircase deconstructed by invisible forces but straining to rise up read as an effort to ascend from — to transcend — patriarchal models of femininity and womanhood, leaving the exhibition title resting, like dust, on its rungs.
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Her story, rendered through a series of lyrical vignettes that alternately float through your hand and punch you in the gut, captures both the universal pathos of childhood, and the specificities of life as a Latinx girl moving into womanhood.
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Intersectional feminism—the idea that social issues exist in overlapping ways, that black women and white women don't experience womanhood equally, for instance—appeared to be on the minds of women marching, and was built into the march's mission statement.
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MAY JEONGNew York Dear May, I'm sure you know that just as there are many emblematic books about poverty — I adore the indelible "Random Family," too — there are also scores of great writing about womanhood from a multitude of perspectives.
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That album, a staggering if carefully orchestrated confession about marital discord and black womanhood, also introduced a new chapter for Beyoncé and Jay-Z, who have increasingly mined public perception (and rumors) about their life together in art and performance.
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The exhibition Making Mammy: A Caricature of Black Womanhood, 1840–1940 at the California African American Museum (CAAM) looks at this phenomenon through films, photographs, and articles of material culture, showing just how widespread and insidious this manufactured caricature became.
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" She described these allegations as "a new cry, as false as it is foul" that "has proclaimed to the world that virtue and innocence are violated by Afro-Americans who must be killed like wild beasts to protect womanhood and childhood.
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But as Juliet researches "fierce" women for Brisbane, learns new feminist vocabulary and meets other gay women of color, she becomes conflicted about her hero worship for Brisbane and even more confused about womanhood and what it means for her.
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She wiped some Windex on the glass table on her back patio and set out lunch — quiche and tabbouleh, edamame and orzo salads from the local gourmet shop — noting that her cooking skills betrayed an ambivalence toward certain tropes of womanhood.
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The W.N.B.A.'s vice president of player personnel at the time, Renee Brown, told The Chicago Tribune that "womanhood" was important when it came to marketing the league, describing a player as "a woman first" who just happened to play sports.
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I am made aware of my blackness and womanhood from the moment I step out the door, whether it's because of street harassment or a dialect that another black person uses toward me as a sign of solidarity and comfort.
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" FACEBOOK AND GOOGLE SLAMMED, ACCUSED OF BREAKING NEW GDPR DATA PRIVACY LAW "This misogynistic, aggressive, violent movement, that has been embraced by the hard Left as the latest civil rights cause, has seen males colonize womanhood and hijack feminism for its own purposes.
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For someone who's continuously claimed the "queen of rap" title but failed to adequately defend her position, it leads us to wonder: With such power and visibility, is Minaj really a celebration of womanhood in hip-hop through her music, message, or actions?
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Since that magical first period when I was forced to confront my so-called womanhood, my relationship with my uterus has been complicated, particularly in those moments when it felt as if it was trying to claw its way out of my body.
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But as a cultural phenomenon, Kate Middleton the character — narrated in the tabloids, reproduced on magazine covers, performed at ribbon-cuttings and charity events — embodied a vision of ideal womanhood that filled (and if I'm honest, still fills) me with deep anxiety.
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Rather, the criticism they feature revolves primarily around the fact that she "had not earned the right to call herself Black" or "had not endured the initiation process of Black womanhood," as one woman told her after seeing her in public conversation.
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Still, it was the first mainstream Jewish coming-of-age tale centered around a young woman, and Marjorie's struggle to reconcile the societal pressure to assimilate with her family's expectations is what makes this an important example of post-war American Jewish womanhood.
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Throughout the 1950s and even the '60s, when the company began advertising in publications like Ebony, the Avon lady was still widely depicted as a model of white womanhood, and the sales model played up the post–World War II ideal of domesticity.
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In both cases, they also exploited the untimely deaths of white women anti-racists to incite fear and pressure others to fall in line with their narrow vision for white womanhood by spreading nefarious lies, slut-shaming, victim-blaming, and threatening their families.
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By rejecting racism and pushing back against white nationalist's narrow and dangerous vision for white womanhood, Heather Heyer and Viola Liuzzo defied the so-called alt-right's expectation that they protect their privilege and prove their worth by emboldening toxic white supremacist masculinity.
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Solange took A Seat at the Table with her critically acclaimed new album — an empowering R&B opus on black womanhood — and in the new issue of Interview, she sat down with big sister Beyoncé to talk about her rise to fame.
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Each is 9 by 6 feet, 8 feet tall, and is covered on every surface with writing: essays about womanhood; poems about race and family; pages from a hand-drawn graphic novel; letters from incarcerated or formerly incarcerated people around the world.
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Themes of hunger and hiddenness recur in all three narratives: the shape-shifters' yearning for human connection apart from violence; the self-protective camouflages of multiracialism and nonbinary queerness and womanhood amid patriarchy; the desperation of traditionalists when faced with inevitable change.
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The literature spoke to a new ideal for contemporary womanhood in the heady early days of Indonesian democracy, different from the buttoned-up conservatism of the Suharto government and the conservative Islamism that has become steadily more entrenched during the democratic era.
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While A Seat At The Table served as a melancholic but meaningful guidebook to surviving Black womanhood, When I Get Home, deemed an "exploration of origin," seems to promise a celebration—after all, Black women are far more than just their suffering.
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Traister relies on extensive research and interviews with over 100 women to chart the rise of single womanhood through history, her account guided by awareness that why and how women experience singleness varies widely according to geography, class, sexuality, gender identity, and race.
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We sat in a space overlooking the theater and for no apparent reason — except, of course, that I was dining with Björk — the lights in the room grew progressively dimmer, until we were discussing hope and utopia and womanhood in pitch blackness.
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By the time the 2016 election happened — amid the chatter about white women's complicity in electing Trump — Swift's refusal to take a political stand solidly cast her as a cultural villain, and her symbolism as an icon of toxic white womanhood was sealed.
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Each is 9 by 6 feet, 8 feet tall, and is covered on every surface with writing: essays about womanhood; poems about race and family; pages from a hand-drawn graphic novel; letters from incarcerated or formerly incarcerated people around the world. ….
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