0 the period when a person is a girl, and not yet a woman, or the state of being a girl:
1 the period of time when a female person is a child:
She lived in Chicago during her girlhood.
This collection of essays helped me to realize both how commonplace and how atypical my own girlhood was.
The other five volumes, about parenthood, adolescence, girlhood, boyhood, and infancy, serve as supplements and constraints on what the editors have chosen to emphasize here.
They look as if a girl passed from girlhood to middle age almost at once when weighted with the cares of maternity.
It is divided into three sections : socialization, consumerism, and identity, and strives to apply questions about the gendering of identity to girlhood.
A following chapter then discusses the imagery contained in her music videos, exploring aspects such as girlhood, femininity and androgyny.
Of course, this is difficult as the old question of how to balance childhood against girlhood or girlhood against adulthood must be attacked by each contributor.
Having been here for six years, they have grown from girlhood into womanhood.
It is the interests of girlhood, and tends to a fair incidence of the law.
