0 the state of being a woman, or the period of time when someone is a woman: --
1 the state of being a woman: --
Well, when the child grows up to womanhood or manhood it is a different matter.
She said that indecent displays had the effect of debasing and degrading womanhood.
While it defined both womanhood and domesticity in terms of each other, it did not, however, naturalize women's placement in the realms of domestic space, action, and relations.
Advocates of the femme nouvelle, that symbol of bourgeois womanhood mentioned earlier, saw in her androgynous features a visual representation of the qualities they were trying to usurp.
Although this latter song is assertive in its own way, it requires the female singer to present herself as a male fantasy of womanhood, simultaneously breathtakingly seductive and completely domestic.
She also notes that leading members of the charity were determined to extend their moralized vision of 'caring womanhood' to as wide a constituency as possible.
Idealized womanhood in late antiquity.
In this respect, the ideology represented here seems to resist placing women as the ground of identity, in favour of seeing womanhood as a material condition.