How To Use Womanhood In A Sentence

Pregnancy is a natural part of womanhood.
I didn't want to be some grotesque parody of womanhood. The Sun
The transformation girlhood to womanhood is quite marvellous.
This fabric, which appears in most works, is apparently associated with an induction into womanhood amongst Xhosa people.
It basically came down to this for me: FGM is about controlling women – specifically about controlling the sexuality of girls and controlling their transition to and experience of womanhood – whereas my understanding of cultural/religious reasons for male circumcision is that those are different. The First Cut | Her Bad Mother

And in any case, polyandry is certainly not the ideal for Indian womanhood.
Whether or not these methods were flawed matters not; what is important is that ideal womanhood was, in part, physical.
I absolutely must not be allowed to wear this in real life for fear of turning into a twirling parody of womanhood. Times, Sunday Times
According to Hero, most of what he does is in defense of womanhood. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
The sit-in was therefore rife with just the sorts of contradictions which communists identified with proletarian womanhood, and women became obvious and crucial actors in its realization.
I didn't want to be some grotesque parody of womanhood. The Sun
I didn't want to be some grotesque parody of womanhood. The Sun
Seventeen and trembling on the brink of womanhood, she has already suffered the humiliation of being packed off as the poor relation with her rich cousins on holiday.
And in Delia's there will reverberate till death that wail of a fierce and childless woman -- that last cry of nature in one who had defied nature -- of womanhood in one who had renounced the ways of womanhood: "_the child -- the child_! Delia Blanchflower
They have come to reject the traditional notion of womanhood.
With paper, photographs, scissors, glue and ink, she recorded and perhaps resolved her passage from girlhood to womanhood.
Margery seems defeminised, too: her experience of womanhood feels very much an outsider's view.
I believe this freedom is compromised in many instances by the dichotomy of the child-womanthe blurred sexuality of the young female runner evolving into womanhood, secure at first in the perfect form of her childness in flight and then confronting new contradictions and conflicts over her maturing body. Young Runners
Despite any wavering I may have exhibited, I now stand, as George puts it in his article, 'ready to conserve the threatened flower of womanhood by also endeavoring to conserve her unpolled vote!' The Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors
The kiss of the prince breaks the spell of narcissism and awakens a womanhood which up to then has remained undeveloped.
Also, I think you're assuming that Wittig and other lesbians/feminists want to ‘liberate’ a true, natural womanhood from cultural baggage etc.
i dont understand what's so facinating about being topless? clothes bring modesty and respect in the eyes of others, otherwise there's not difference between you and animals? and when some man tries to take advantage of them, they start whining about their womanhood. you white people are just like pigs, animals roam around naked, have sex with anyone you want, you don't eve bother to ask their names as long as they are "fuckable". Support Topless Women
As she traces her own journey from girlhood to womanhood in Calcutta, she evokes the intimate experiences of food and ritual that structure women's everyday life in Bengal.
She noted her slim figure, slight curves suggested womanhood.
Where does this leave modern womanhood? Times, Sunday Times
African women may feel multiple allegiances: community affiliations, ethnic identification, global womanhood, and racial solidarity.
That evening, at the Villa Aioussa, there gathered a courtly assembly, of much higher rank than Algiers can commonly afford, because many of station as lofty as her own had been drawn thither to follow her to what the Princesse Corona called her banishment -- an endurable banishment enough under those azure skies, in that clear, elastic air, and with that charming "bonbonniere" in which to dwell, yet still a banishment to the reigning beauty of Paris, to one who had the habits and the commands of a wholly undisputed sovereignty in the royal splendor of her womanhood. Under Two Flags
Backed up by the views of psychologists, doctors and an actress who almost died trying to conform to the currently dominant stick - insect look, I looked forward to a return to a healthier ideal of womanhood.
Womanhood, according to the theory, is a manifold phenomenon as different women live and behave differently in different circumstances and conditions.
Yet public opinion had been captured, and it was taken for granted that lynching was a just response to the barbarous sexual crimes against white womanhood.
She symbolised for me the best of Indian womanhood.
Some of that love is transferred to Kavita Asrani who Vishnu has watched blossom from childhood to full blown womanhood.
Mirah's farewell look and words -- their exquisite appealingness stirring in him that deep-laid care for womanhood which had begun when his own lip was like a girl's -- her hold on his feeling had helped him to be blameless in word and deed under the difficult circumstances we know of. Daniel Deronda
Over time, exemption from taxation came to be seen by women as a right, an integral component of Ewe women's conception of an individual self and a collective Lomé womanhood which served as a platform for the 1933 uprising.
She stood tranquilly on the ground of their common womanhood. THE SCORN OF WOMEN
MILF seems to be a term appropriated from the pages of celebrity culture by teenage boys, men whose views of womanhood centre on one plastic image. Got MILF? | Her Bad Mother
Rachel and Samson fight over their guests, leaving Samson to ponder the complexities of womanhood that he does not understand.
Eventually, however, the honor, strength, character and womanhood of Radha the woman prevails and she returns back to her hungry children with honor and dignity.
A male clergy found a way of harnessing the devotion of women, whether in congregations or not, to promote the cult of the Virgin, both as a way of feminizing Catholicism and of legitimizing the virtues of womanhood and motherhood.
She had been true to her independent nature, fulfilling her womanhood in a manner that she found appropriate, although unable to assert herself finally.
it's an insult to American womanhood
Meanwhile it is referred to only because its consideration shows us some sort of excuse, if not warrant, for the higher education of woman, even though in the process of thus endowing her with economic independence, we disendow her of her distinctive womanhood, or at the very least imperil it; even though, more serious still, we deprive the race of her services as physical and psychical mother. Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles
By some instinct I told them at once about James Hinton, whom, of course, they knew by name as the first aurist of his day; how, with all that this life could give him, he had died of a broken heart, a heart broken over the lost and degraded womanhood of England, the hosts of young girls slain in body and soul whom he met with at night in our terrible streets. The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis
Stoker wanted us to be revolted by the sexualizing of pure English womanhood, to see their corruption as striking at the foundation of English life and, by extension, civilized society.
When Ting returns to the fight club, he's obliged to defend the honour of Thai womanhood from a shaggy Australian behemoth.
Brigitte Bardot was the dominant image of womanhood in French cinema during the 1960s.
Literature refutes both people who think gender should be abolished and people who have overly-narrow views of womanhood or manhood.
To account for recognition of theater women's accomplishments, Berlanstein cites the impact of republican anticlericals, who promoted new secular models for womanhood.
It is symbolic of the fighting spirit of modern womanhood.
The way that this originally purely comic figure became an icon for young womanhood is baffling. Times, Sunday Times
However, he would have been shocked to know of the pagan pleasure in nature and pretty womanhood experienced by Angel.
I was uncovering a powerful voice of womanhood, embracing woman's strength, and heeding woman's necessary urging call.
For the more conservative Islamists, her baju kurung is a symbol of Muslim modesty and upright Muslim womanhood.
This time we play Cupid, and what we behold is a smoother landscape with fewer peaks and valleys, a thoroughly modern image of taut contemporary womanhood.
All but one of the sitters for this portrait of uncommon womanhood survived the war. Spitfire Women of World War II
She personifies the ‘unstained patriotic American womanhood our boys are fighting for.’
Graves's goal was to promote model womanhood for young women by writing about ideal types.
On the other hand, womanhood is associated with the characteristics of being sensible, tender, nurturing and caring.
I didn't want to be some grotesque parody of womanhood. The Sun
It depicts the strength and courage of Indian womanhood.
All through his sermons Topsell tries to portray Naomi and Ruth as symbols of ideal womanhood who are guilty of no moral or religious offense.
The Jews, like the Negroes, whom this mania often drives to crimes against womanhood, are equally abnormally full-blooded. . . A Renegade History of the United States
This was the history of the hoop skirt and the Grecian bend, and has been that of most of the extremes which have marked the past, and we can readily believe that in no other way could womanhood have been insnared by such supreme and criminal folly as has characterized fashion's caprices in unnumbered instances. The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891
By the time the duo meet years later, however, Kajol has mutated into the quintessential image of traditional womanhood, perpetually clothed in chiffon saris and polite diffidence.
The ambassador thought these warrior women must be a phenomenon of modern womanhood. ELIZABETH AND MARY: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
I absolutely must not be allowed to wear this in real life for fear of turning into a twirling parody of womanhood. Times, Sunday Times
More reserved, more dignified, in the reserve of developed womanhood, her cession was the more gracious and wonderful. The Silver Horde
The virtue of white womanhood could not be assumed; it had to be enforced.
This more primitive expression of womanhood is fused with the typically reclining posture of renaissance figures, such as Michelangelo's Dawn.
Did militant feminism require women to give up their womanhood and adopt masculinity?
Stocking four flavours of dishy, piquant womanhood, it treated the audience to one tasty conundrum after another.
But Eleanor had somehow triumphed over the vagaries of age, just as she'd somehow triumphed over the confines and constraints of womanhood. HERE BE DRAGONS
We see Annie Allen grow from childhood to womanhood in an atmosphere conditioned by poverty, racial discrimination, parental expectations, and unhappiness.
It was as if they still retained more of the ingenuousness of primitive womanhood than she, and thus she "circumnavigated" them, while they, all too self-centred, had barely discovered in which hemisphere her shores were to be found. Too Old for Dolls A Novel
He had watched me since I had matured into womanhood, all the while pressuring his father to arrange the marriage.
The nonparticipants were clients of local social service agencies or friends of those who had participated in A Journey Toward Womanhood.
The flower of successful womanhood -- those who have bargained shrewdly -- are to be found overfed, overdressed, sensualized, in great hotels, on mammoth steamers and luxurious trains, rushing hither and thither on idle errands. Together
The editrix of British Vogue joined the cream of British womanhood Women Achievers who lunched with Queen Elizabeth on March 11th.
I didn't want to be some grotesque parody of womanhood. The Sun
Even in childhood and young womanhood, there is little of the contingent and insignificant detail which humanises the great.
Brigitte Bardot was the dominant image of womanhood in French cinema during the 1960s.
Having known Miss Hamilton for most of his life, he told Hay he had watched her pass from “the sweetness of natural womanhood … through the acetous fermentation of belated virginity into the hard cider of middle age.” The Five of Hearts
They have come to reject the traditional notion of womanhood.
The film tells a personal story of emerging womanhood through Geneviève, when her lover is drafted to war-torn Algeria.
I have always considered them a frivolity that does nothing to enhance the condition of womanhood.
True womanhood emphasized the qualities of piety, purity, maternity, submissiveness, virtue, and domesticity.
It is one that has long existed not only as a cultural dimension for ethnic, national and religious communities but for other groups too; feminists find their identity in their womanhood and the Welsh in their language.
In terms of womanhood, the words conjure up something, well, unflatteringly female.
What I am interested in is this: exactly how positive is Tarantino's portrayal of women in this movie, and does it reflect a standard of womanhood with which I identify?
Women were, strictly speaking, not allowed to fulfill the highest ideal of filial piety, an ideal that was ironically grounded in the virtue attributed to ideal womanhood - the maternal instinct to care and be cared for.
It unsexes womanhood by putting her publicly in male attire -- too often in no attire at all. Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes
Stocking four flavours of dishy, piquant womanhood, it treated the audience to one tasty conundrum after another.
The panel does not agree with that interpretation; it does not consider that the expression 'crazy bitch,' as used in the song, is aimed at womanhood in general. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
To this insinuation Balzac gave no credence; he naturally found it easy to believe in one more enthusiastic foreign admirer, and he was seriously troubled by the fact that the first dizain of the "Contes Drolatiques," which certainly would not satisfy his correspondent's views on the lofty mission of womanhood, was likely to appear shortly. Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings
Successful women performers thus had to have a demure appearance and restrict their body movements on stage to conform to idealized concepts of womanhood.
They are relics from the past, certainly, but a past ideal of Indian womanhood that impinges all too easily on India's troubled present and has serious repercussions for India's future.
In particular, he wishes to restore the history of Irish womanhood to its proper place.
The negative images against which manhood has been constructed, such as womanhood, boyhood, dependency, slavery, and racial and class difference, will be examined.
And did Berry baring her torso in Swordfish provide the wholesome image of black womanhood that the NAACP says it wants to promote?
The novel deals with a teenage girl's journey towards womanhood.
This is a wonderful book because throughout its chapters it deals with many character traits of a girl and issues that they face transitioning from girlhood into womanhood.
She does not write graphically about sex, but it is in the margins of her pages and her character's consciousness as she is on a crash collision course with womanhood and all its joys, accoutrement and heartaches. Carole Mallory: Book Review: The End of Everything by Megan Abbott
Women responded positively to this new ideal, for it endowed motherhood, and thus womanhood, with a new sense of dignity and purpose.
White supremacists proclaimed him a threat to white womanhood, and then responded with lynching and the imposition of rigid segregation in the South, and with police surveillance, ghettoization, and antimiscegenation laws elsewhere in the United States. Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583
Women were the 'conscience of the world', social reform concerned women because it touched on all the great trusts of womanhood, the sanctity of the family, the purity of marriage, the sweet innocence of children.
She is not going to be held up as some virtue of womanhood, motherhood and rightto life when all along she was mother to her own brother and possible her own daughter was the victim of the same family problems. Election Central Sunday Roundup
Motherhood is a powerful metaphor because it is central to esteemed ideals of womanhood, particularly among Latinos.
Brigitte Bardot was the dominant image of womanhood in French cinema during the 1960s.
A funny old thing has happened to British womanhood. Times, Sunday Times
Wearing a red dress, hot pink headwrap, kente cloth, a silk fringed shawl, and an armful of bangles, she is fully sexual, a celebration of African American womanhood.
These comments reveal the contested space within the very image of modern womanhood in the 1920s: was it ‘wild’ to dance, play bridge and go to the theater?
Within America itself, strong female characters emerge from and repudiate the caricatures of womanhood that populate the narrative.
But Eleanor had somehow triumphed over the vagaries of age, just as she'd somehow triumphed over the confines and constraints of womanhood. HERE BE DRAGONS
I work for my ideal of German womanhood with whom, some day, I will live my life in the east and fight my battles as a German far from beautiful Germany.
According to Hero, most of what he does is in defense of womanhood. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
This fashion conscious teenager, short fingernails perfectly painted in metallic baby blue, is a young girl but on the cusp of womanhood; a child still at the back of her own mind and absolutely so in the eyes of the law.
My insights into French womanhood were greatly expanded when I met Mamie and Tantine, who are respectively Robert's mother and aunt.
Yet even though these women were duly chaperoned by mothers or other female relatives, critics increasingly attacked European training as a danger to American womanhood.
It does say a lot about the awarding committees that the unfeeling--vampirish and vulturous--narrator in Olds's poetry is taken as the paragon of womanhood these days. Anis Shivani: Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship
She had never been tormented by womanhood, and she had lived in a dreamland of Tennysonian poesy, dense even to the full significance of that delicate master's delicate allusions to the grossnesses that intrude upon the relations of queens and knights. Chapter 14
It is symbolic of the fighting spirit of modern womanhood.
My weakness was womanhood, my muliebrity, my ruin.
She tells a story of childhood and young womanhood, simultaneously mulling over what's become of her by the 1990s.
However, the Virgin Mother, the ideal of womanhood as presented by a patriarchal church, has been at the expense of real women.
It is symbolic of the fighting spirit of modern womanhood.
The novel deals with a teenage girl's journey towards womanhood.
Central to the idea of Mother Teresa is this idea of womanhood, of the feminine, of selflessness, calling and sacrifice.
It is symbolic of the fighting spirit of modern womanhood.
These imagined and real mothers provide an important counter to the negative images of black womanhood circulated in other media.
When 150 pounds of solid, healthy womanhood struck the top of the canopy exactly in the middle, the metallic supports snapped like so many pipe-stems and the whole structure heeled over like a full-rigged ship in a squall, and spilled her on the floor, where she sat half stunned by the fall and afraid to move. "The Moon Woman" by Minna Irving, part 3
Perugino was evidently a devout man; and the Virgin, therefore, revealed herself to him in loftier and sweeter faces of celestial womanhood, and yet with a kind of homeliness in their human mould, than even the genius of Raphael could imagine. The Marble Faun - Volume 2 The Romance of Monte Beni
if you were basketball fans, instead of women" - that's hilarious! because of course there are no women who are basketball fans! or if they are basketeball fans they have checked their womanhood at the door! nor, apparently, are there womens basketball teams. keep 'em comin 'flyboy, i still need to reach my daily quota of LOLs ..... This Latina is still a feminist
But what happens when the idea of drawing images of womanhood on the contemporary stage is born through juxtaposition of the two ancient heroines, moulded to the necessities of the experiences of womanhood?
At 17, Cassandra is poised on the brink of womanhood.
For example, the now-defunct New Zealand launch site included virtual men with whom you could have "guiltless" virtual affairs: launch website imagines the chocolate bar as a tribute to Womanhood in all its "shimmery" glory: The Hathor Legacy
Poverty pins them between traditional ideals of Italian womanhood and the claims of urban workplaces.
These imagined and real mothers provide an important counter to the negative images of black womanhood circulated in other media.
It marks the transition from girlhood to womanhood.
In the 1960s, young womanhood was defined as essentially concerned with a feminine appearance and attracting the admiring male gaze.
This characterisation is problematic, as here Mehta is reinforcing the stereotype of docile, demure, and pristine femininity as the ideal form of South Asian womanhood.
Yet while she recognizes the limiting conditions of constructed womanhood, Brittain refuses to accept them.
Sentimental literature was often written for and about the lives of girls on the brink of womanhood; young women such as Sarah Connell were among its prime consumers.
Attacks upon property and upon white womanhood are pre-eminently what many users of the term violence have in mind. A Special Supplement: On Violence
It looked as though the beauty pageant was finally coming into the 21st century, reflecting the diversity of modern womanhood in this country. Times, Sunday Times
She was now three and twenty, in the pride of womanhood, fulfilling the precious duties of wife and mother, possessed of all her heart had ever coveted.
Out of a sheer impulse for self-protection she flies to the nunnery, which is ready to give her life at the price of her womanhood and her self-sacrifice. Celibates
The resolution of the Duchess's feud with the Binney family underscores the character's position as the apparent antithesis of true black womanhood.
Though striking a blow for Indian womanhood, Sharma remains a dutiful daughter in the traditional mould and still places great faith in arranged marriages.
The flames leapt and died and leapt again, consuming the years of Anita's young womanhood, and she watched them hypnotized. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
I didn't want to be some grotesque parody of womanhood. The Sun
I absolutely must not be allowed to wear this in real life for fear of turning into a twirling parody of womanhood. Times, Sunday Times
It is a celebration of motherhood, sisterhood and womanhood.
While the artist continues to look into the beauty of womanhood in all its femininity and grace through this technique, the watercolours reflect his old passion for architectural forms.
Literature refutes both people who think gender should be abolished and people who have overly-narrow views of womanhood or manhood.
From its inception, the genteel performance was connected with ideologies of gender, particularly the ideal of true womanhood.
In a nutshell: Modern womanhood is tough. Times, Sunday Times
If the Chinese sages had it right, there's something about womanhood and its yin energy that embraces inwardness, acceptance, inner strength, compassion, joy.
Four girls appear, dressed in white afternoon dresses with full skirts and short sleeves, the picture of mid-adolescent or young womanhood, protective of each other in a two by two pattern.
Being a term equally applicable to one-half of the brute creation, it tends to lower the dignity of womanhood. The Woman's Advocate, Vol. I, No V.
The ambassador thought these warrior women must be a phenomenon of modern womanhood. ELIZABETH AND MARY: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
'But,' she added, with that touch of superiority in her manner which obtruded itself in most of her conversation with the vicar's wife, 'there are certain accepted traditions of womanhood such as conventionality approves, and it was not called artificial to conform to them when I was a girl.' Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir
I thought that I would lose my independence, my liberated womanhood to the mop and the cookie sheet.
Some say it is a ritual initiation into womanhood.
Kate Sheedy is a very pretty, intelligent and articulate girl teetering on the brink of womanhood.
I didn't want to be some grotesque parody of womanhood. The Sun
There may have been nothing in her early manifestations of character to foreshow the noble womanhood into which she grew. Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience
This October, more than 6,000 women gathered in Chicago for the True Woman Conference '08: a stadium-style event to promote what its proponents call "biblical womanhood," "complementarianism," or-most bluntly - "the patriarchy movement." ... Clipmarks | Live Clips
I don't think it tells us about deep underlying trends or revisions to ideals of womanhood.
I was betrothed to Deshan and sent to Pegasus shortly after my ascent to womanhood.
At home, womanhood was idealized and sanctified, while women themselves were denied such basic rights of citizenship as the vote.
The deceased tutoress was a tranquil, smooth woman, easily nourished, as such people are, -- a quality which is inestimable in a tutor's wife, -- and so it happened that the daughter inherited enough vitality from the mother to live through childhood and infancy and fight her way towards womanhood, in spite of the tendencies she derived from her other parent. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859
But as he left the table and walked with unelastic step into the library, there rose before him the picture of Harvey, weak and pale but filled nevertheless with the vigor of youthful blood, stretched on a couch, while over him, gentle in her womanhood, Katherine was bending. The Short Line War
He saw his way to do noble service in the cause of womanhood, and that by following the path of mere common sense -- all sentimental and so-called chivalrous humbug cast aside, all exaggerated new conceptions simply disregarded. Our Friend the Charlatan
They have come to reject the traditional notion of womanhood.
The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood exist only to peddle their brand of patriarchy called "complementarianism. Brandon G. Withrow: The Ordination Of Women And The High Calling Of Dissent
Pregnancy is a natural part of womanhood.
She has presented women figures in an artistic impact-assessment on the concept of womanhood across centuries.

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