What's the difference between femalehood and girlhood?
Femalehood
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Girlhood
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(n.) State or time of being a girl.
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(1) Circumcision in Maasai culture marks the transition from girlhood to womanhood, so in order to encourage people to move away from female genital cutting we have developed an alternative rite of passage, in which the girl experiences all the elements of the ceremony but is not cut.
(2) As is often the way in teenage friendships, it's not clear whether Cassandra is friend or foe, and the dynamic between the two girls is the central focus of a sensitive but uncompromising film about girlhood, female sexuality and trust.
(3) The Marakwet have long practised FGM to mark transition from girlhood to adulthood.
(4) In girlhood, starkly-divided toy aisles teach us that engineering, electronics and science toys are for boys, that the futures for which we should be preparing are those of the Barbie Dream House variety.
(5) It is concluded that the cause of chronic cor pulmonale in women in Delhi was damage to the lungs from exposure to smoky cooking fuels from girlhood onwards, followed by repeated chest infections.
(6) Dr Rosie Campbell, a politics academic from Birkbeck University, told the Huffington Post she could only hope it was an accident given worries about the “pinkification of girlhood”.
(7) But as Liang left her girlhood behind and stepped across the family threshold, she was embarking on a lifelong commitment to remain single.
(8) Their clothes are the rewards of immaculate girlhood: dresses of taffeta and velvet with lace collars, petticoats, ankle straps, pocketbooks and initialled handkerchiefs, seasonal gloves of cotton and kid, matching coats and muffs.
(9) Our friends were there, laughing and shouting: ‘It’s about time they honoured you!’” Topolansky’s girlhood nickname was la Flaca (the skinny one) but the Tupamaros called her la Tronca (the log) because she was so tough.
(10) On the other side of the country, Kendell has settled into San Francisco, and is a zealous 49ers fan – though her girlhood love of the Rams is now rekindled.
(11) We’re coming, and the neighbourhood is going The bower of girlhood.
(12) The speedy transience of girlhood alongside what are often short-term girl-empowerment interventions also needs acknowledgment.
(13) I can understand how Portman relates to Molly as a woman at the crossroads of girlhood and adulthood (even now she still looks almost childlike).
(14) How can we talk about protecting the girlhood, while transgender girls still dread going to a public bathroom?