Word: womanhood
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...womanhood is a continuum, with Ruth Bader Ginsburg on one end and Jessica Simpson on the other, Joan Allen occupies a sparsely populated middle position: the dignified babe. It's a precarious perch, and not just because it seems such an oxymoron. It's dangerous, at least for an actress, because Hollywood doesn't know what to do with you. Or rather it knows exactly what to do with you: you play the wife. The nice but uptight wife...
Harold, who focused on the way she said she has tried to present a positive image of womanhood in the media following her crowning as Miss America, echoed Knapp’s emphasis on image...
...Besides the money that goes toward ending the larger problem of violence against women, V-Day also attempts to earn cultural change by ritualizing the celebration of womanhood on a personal and global level,” she says...
...done over the last four years that I go 'Oh, my God!'" Spears has been experiencing some oh-my-God moments of her own lately - the sort of awkward self-examination of personal sexuality that many 21-year-old girls go through as they cross the threshold into womanhood. Except in Spears' case, of course, she's crossing it while the press snaps thousands of increasingly explicit pictures. "I'm really kind of over these magazine shoots," she says. "Not that I regret anything I've done, but I'm tired of the reaction they get." That Esquire shoot...
...excuse me’s” and “I’m sorry’s,” doesn’t question notions of femininity. Drag Night offers men the opportunity to become deranged ’50s housewives—is this womanhood? You could say that there’s no essential womanhood, and so maybe exaggerating femininity only results in us making fun of traditional categories. This would be cool, and I think Adams House Drag Night has the potential to do this. But what’s happening now, at least...