Typical womanhood.

I was afraid of womanhood.

The Death of Russian Womanhood

Don't make an issue of my womanhood.

In fact, I grew up observing two different kinds of womanhood.

In India, motherhood is perceived as the ultimate validation of womanhood.

Sociological reasons out of respect for cultural traditions, to initiate girls into womanhood, to ensure social integration and to maintain social cohesion

In our tradition, there is a ceremony that girls have to undergo to become women, and it's a rite of passage to womanhood.

Cases of lesbian women being targeted for rape specifically because of their sexual orientation in order for the aggressor to prove the victim's womanhood have also been documented.

She had this maternal instinct, much like a young girl on her way to womanhood, and so this really took us to this new level of understanding that personality.

They have been carefully selected to testify in this case... each representing a particular branch of American womanhood... for not only one woman is on trial here, but all women.

At Camp Diva, my non profit organization, we have these types of conversations all the time as a way to help girls of African descent prepare for their passage into womanhood.

In West Africa, where genital mutilation is seen as a rite of passage from childhood to womanhood, the age at which the practice is performed tends to be around 14 or 15, the age of puberty.

It is interesting to note that women opposed to excision justify their refusal by the fact that it is a quot harmful tradition quot that flies in the face of religion or detracts from the dignity of womanhood.

Its most dramatic success has been its participation in the REACH (Reproductive, Educative and Community Health) programme, which substitutes gift giving and public celebration for the traditional practice of female genital mutilation as a rite of passage into womanhood.

I know I should start off with a funny story about them kinfolk of mine in Riddle but I just feel too humble this afternoon as I look out upon this fine representative body of wholesome young American womanhood.

These women and Tereshkova is undoubtedly among them were shocked by the changes they saw before them. Indeed, probably more horrifying to them than the collapse of the Soviet regime was the rampant prostitution of daily life, for it negated the meaning of Russia and of Russian womanhood.

Tereshkova s generation, though it encompassed almost the entire era of Soviet rule, had been raised in the tradition of Russian womanhood. Much older than the Soviet regime, this tradition emphasizes a spirit of sacrifice not just for loved ones, but also for great causes such as revolution, state, science, or art that is deeply hostile to accumulation of money and material goods as the goal of life.