A most remarkable reversion to femininity.

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

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

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

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.