The Death of Russian Womanhood

I was afraid of womanhood.

True, she has grown into womanhood suddenly.

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

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

Defenseless womanhood with nothing but a. 38 caliber revolver in her hand.

It was the portrait of a young girl just ripening into womanhood.

I am supporting womanhood by the at least I can do for them.

Tereshkova s generation, though it encompassed almost the entire era of Soviet rule, had been raised in the tradition of Russian 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.

In cultures where girls and women are married off and chastity is central to womanhood, all is lost for a woman who loses her honor.

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.

Virginia Woolf called the ideal of womanhood in this period The Angel in the House a retiring, fragile creature who could not withstand the rigors of the public arena.

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.

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.

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.

Malcolm X and Elijah Mohammad's message made a whole lot of people feel whole again, human being again, some of them came out and found a new meaning to their manhood and their 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.

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.